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Lea Michele and Natalie Portman Wear Tiffany & Co. Jewels at the SAG Awards

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"Glee" actress Lea Michele piled on the jewels for the Screen Actor's Guild Awards on Sunday night. Michele, who was nominated for "Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series," wore a shimmering Oscar De La Renta gown. She also selected pieces from Tiffany & Co., choosing nearly $1 million in diamond jewelry. Her choices included Tiffany & Co. oval diamond lever back earrings set in platinum ($180,000) and a Tiffany & Co. pear shape diamond ring with contour split shank set in platinum ($269,000). She layered her wrist with extra sparkle, selecting a diamond bracelet with micro melee border set in platinum ($400,000), diamond deco bracelet set in platinum ($50,000) and a diamond cell bracelet set in platinum ($82,000).

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Tiffany & Co. To Build Factory In Kentucky

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Filed under: Jewelry, Timepieces / Watches

When I think of Kentucky I don't think of luxury. Then again it is good to see new manufactures being built in America as well as a growing demand for luxury goods. Famous luxury goods brand Tiffany & Co. just broke ground on a site in Lexington Kentucky where it will open up a new facility to produce certain basic jewelry and accessory pieces. Other US facilities for the brand are located in Rhode Island and New York.

Tiffany & Co. makes a range of products, some licensed by other companies (such as their timepieces), and certainly not all of them are made in the US. While the luxury goods market is steadily increasing in the US, it is booming in China. It might be seen as somewhat ironic that the Kentucky location will be making volume goods for the Chinese market.

Over the last several years Kentucky has been working with companies and giving them large incentives to build plants in Kentucky were labor is relatively cheap (for America) and jobs are needed. Tiffany & Co. will join other such as automotive makers who see Kentucky as a very friendly business environment. The new plant is said to only provide about 125 new jobs, but will likely have the type of name recognition that will open more doors in the area. Completion of the new Tiffany & Co. facility is said to completed in the first half of 2011.

Ariel Adams publishes the luxury watch reviews site aBlogtoRead.com.

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Tiffany & Co. Releases Latest Blue Book

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Tiffany & Co. has released the 2010-2011 Blue Book Collection, the jeweler's annual presentation of special beautiful baubles up for sale. This year's collection includes the Tiffany Majestic necklace, shown above. It took more than a year to procure the more than 300 pear-shaped and round brilliant stones and over 700 hours to create the necklace itself. The smaller stones are set into diamond florets surrounding a 30.31-carat, E color, internally flawless detachable diamond drop. The platinum mountings were individually crafted and linked to create a flexible setting that sparkles with every movement.White diamonds are showcased in the Fringe necklace which features a 20.01-carat, D color, internally flawless diamond in a rectangular modified brilliant cut with 61 round, 33 cushion and 30 marquise diamonds in platinum.

The Blue Book Collection also includes colored diamonds. A necklace based on Art Deco jewels in the Tiffany & Co. archives has a triple-drop pendant with three extraordinarily rare fancy vivid yellow diamonds-- a rectangular-shaped 13.09-carat yellow diamond and two approximately 6-carat yellow diamonds surrounded with a total of 642 round brilliant white diamonds.

Besides the diamonds there are also other stones. A 28.01-carat unenhanced Kashmir sapphire sits in a necklace of round brilliant diamonds. Another interesting piece is a new version of the popular Jean Schlumberger Bird on a Rock design, featuring a diamond-encrusted bird of 18 karat gold. This year's bird sits on a 104.66-carat cushion-shaped kunzite distinguished by a deep purplish pink hue. Check out other pieces in the gallery below.

[via National Jeweler]

Gallery: Highlights From The Tiffany Blue Book 2010

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Tiffany & Co.: Signature Jewelry in a Signature Blue Box

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With its trademark blue boxes and over a century of luxury lore behind it, Tiffany & Co. is perhaps the world's most identifiable emporium of opulence. Above all, Tiffany is known for its jewelry, which made up 87% of the company's revenues last year. Unsurprisingly, Tiffany is a finalist in Luxist's Best Jewelry category.

Founded by Charles Louis Tiffany in 1837, the store's first day receipts totaled $4.98. But Tiffany soon found success. By 1851, Tiffany became the first company to institute the silver standard that was eventually adopted by the U.S. By the turn of the 20^th Century, Tiffany had moved into a spacious new Manhattan headquarters, which it outgrew by 1940.

The following years saw Tiffany & Co. grow as an icon with the 1961 film Breakfast at Tiffany's, starring Audrey Hepburn. Flush with success, the company went public on the New York Stock Exchange in 1987.

The company is now known by its style which has long been defined by groundbreaking designers (Louis C. Tiffany, Jean Schlumberger, Paloma Picasso, Elsa Peretti and Frank Gehry, to name a few). It is also known for its glamorous collections that are now classics, from the Atlas, Classic, Etoile and Open Heart to the Tiffany Keys collection (above) which are innately chic pendants and charms inspired by Tiffany's archives.

Shares debuted at a split-adjusted $1.91, and have since soared some 2,000% despite the recent recession. Today, the company's current New York flagship store accounts for roughly one-tenth of the company's net sales. Tiffany & Co. boasts 85 other stores in the U.S., 96 in the Asia-Pacific region and 24 in Europe. Its signature jewelry, most notably its famed engagement rings and statement diamonds, still come in the same Tiffany blue boxes.

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Gallery: More Jewelry from Tiffany & Co.

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Tiffany & Co. Mark Perpetual Calendar TriRetrograde Chronograph Watch

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Here is a limited edition (16 pieces only) watch from Tiffany & Co. that shows how well their partnership with the Swatch Group is working out (where they now get movements). The Mark Perpetual Calendar TriRetrograde Chronograph watch is an advancement on the previous Mark T-57 TriRetrograde Chronograph. This new model has a movement that not only maintains the retrograde chronograph complication, but also adds a perpetual calendar complete with a moon phase indicator in the mix. Despite the many pieces of information displayed on the dial, Tiffany & Co. designers keep the watch face looking attractive.

The Tiffany & Co. Mark line has always been about modern classics, and this new model is no different. While the Mark T-57 line has been all about sport, the main Mark line is a sober approach at handsome looks. The case is available in 18k yellow or rose gold, with well done squared pushers. The partially guilloche engraved dial helps to frame the Roman numerals around the face, while aperture window placement on the dial is laid out according to the movement specifications below. This design was never intended to be a symmetrical looking watch, and rather, it excels at appearing like a gentleman's tool valuing function and luxury above anything else. Hopefully Tiffany will eventually release more than 16 of these watches.

Ariel Adams publishes the watch review site aBlogtoRead.com.

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