Ruby
Rubies hold a prized place in the jewellery industry, renowned for their vibrant colour, rarity, and enduring appeal in both fine and fashion collections. For UK jewellers, designers, and wholesalers, rubies offer opportunities to cater to high-end markets and customers seeking birthstones or symbolic pieces.
Jewellery Focus provides expert coverage on rubies, including sourcing challenges, market trends, pricing developments, and innovations in treatments and certification. Our reporting helps trade professionals navigate the commercial and technical aspects of working with this sought-after gemstone.
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Feb- 2021 -12 FebruaryDesigners
Taylor & Hart creates 18ct ‘Haribo’ ring
Taylor and Hart has announced the launch of an 18ct, diamond-encrusted ‘Haribo’ engagement ring, whose creation was inspired by the popular sweet. The ruby-red band includes 224 rubies and is topped with an 18ct yellow gold basket of 40 diamonds and a 2.70ct cabochon yellow sapphire to create the “ultimate…
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11 FebruaryAuctions
Christie’s New York sale totals over $2m
Christie’s Jewels Online sale, which lasted from 27 January to 10 February, saw sales totalling $2,703,750 (£1,955,906). Some 98% of items were sold by lot at the virtual auction and 139% hammer above low estimate. The auctioneer’s virtual sale attracted a global audience with bidders from 39 different countries and…
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1 FebruaryRetailers
Hancocks London JOM priced at £29,500
Hancocks London has announced its Jewel of the Month for February is a gold and Amethyst riviere necklace which is priced at £29,500. The 1870s necklace is made in 15 carat yellow gold and set with 18 graduated oval faceted amethysts in scalloped collets joined by chain links. The central…
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Jan- 2021 -27 JanuaryAuctions
Fellows auctions Art Nouveau dragonfly for £15,950
Fellows auctioneers has recorded a sale of an early 20th Century Art Nouveau dragonfly brooch which sports the green and purple suffragette colours for £15,950 in its first auction of 2021. The brooch was part of a Fine Jewellery sale which contained over 500 lots and ran from 11am –…
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Nov- 2020 -16 NovemberAuctions
Christie’s brings Dame Vera Lynn collection to auction
Christie’s Important Jewels is currently operating an online auction throughout November which includes the private collection from the late Dame Vera Lynn. The company said bidding, which opened on 4 November, will begin closing lot by lot on 18 November. A highlight of the auction is said to be a…
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Sep- 2020 -8 SeptemberAuctions
Christie’s announces autumn Jewels Online sale
Christie’s has announced its upcoming Jewels Online Sale , which is set to run between 8 September and 22 September. The sale features a broad selection of “iconic” designs by jewelers including Angela Cummings, Bulgari, Cartier, David Webb, Graff, Harry Winston, JAR, Pomellato, Tiffany and Co., and Van Cleef and…
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Jul- 2020 -30 JulyAuctions
Christie’s jewels auction totals $28m
Christie’s has announced that its Magnificent Jewels auction totalled $28m (£21.6m), with 87% sold by value and 83% sold by lot. The auction, which took place in New York City on 29 July, had global participation with clients registered from 34 countries. A diamond necklace suspending a pear-shaped diamond was…
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24 JulyAuctions
First public Fellows auction totals £1m
The first public auction to be held by Fellows since March garnered a total hammer price of over £1m. The Fine Jewellery sale, which took place at the independent, family-owned auction house in Birmingham on 23 July, lasted a total of six hours from 11am to 5pm. Bidders from all…
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9 JulyAuctions
Christie’s fine jewels sale achieves £4m
A Christie’s fine jewels suction has achieved £4.2m, in a sale that “confirmed the strong interest for fine jewels”, the auction house has said. The top lot of the sale was sapphire, diamond and ruby desk clock by Van Cleef and Arpels that hails from the personal collection of Jacqueline…
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Feb- 2020 -17 FebruaryDesigners
Papa Johns launches 18k gold ‘crust-links’
Pizza chain Papa John’s has launched a new novelty £5,000 18k gold one-of-a-kind pair of ‘crust-links’. Papa John’s has partnered with London-based DC Jewellery in Hatton Garden to create the handmade 18k gold cufflinks. The cufflinks have been created in a bid to encourage women to make their move by…
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