
Christie's Crown Jewels
Luxury Jewelry: There's nothing subtle about you. Wearing a tiara to the first day of second grade seemed like the perfect accessory and that floor-length mink coat you wore to the Sadie Hawkins dance was in no way over-the-top. Your #1 rule is that if you've got it, by golly, you're going to flaunt it (and you don't mean tasteless displays of bare skin). You haven't changed to this day: when you want something, you go for it. So given your showy nature, you would have no qualms wearing an extravagant 14.43 carat, 18k gold pear-shaped dark blue-grey diamond.
Its price-tag of $1,200,000-1,500,000 doesn't give you pause either. The captivating color of this fancy dark blue-grey diamond is a prime example of the delicate and unique crystallization process that takes millions of years to form deep within the earth's core. The stone's beautiful and graceful outline-not to mention its monstrous size-will certainly garner lots of attention. You wouldn't have it any other way. This is one auction you don't want to miss: Christie's, New York, Rockefeller Plaza, April 11, 2006.
For LxM Amy Covington