J.R.Dunn’s Jewelry Blog

On big brands like Roberto Coin, John Hardy and Mikimoto you will rarely find anybody advertising discounted prices. The reason being is these are the most prestigious brands in the jewelry industry. If you compare it to handbags, it would also be highly unusual to find an authorized Louis Vuitton dealer advertising discounts. That being said you can find some special deals when department stores have friends and family or around the Holiday time you will see some special offers from a few authorized dealers. The best advice we can give you though, is shop only at authorized dealers whether it is at www.jrdunn.com or anywhere else. This is the only way you are guaranteed to get unused genuine product and not a knockoff! Happy Shopping.

If you are looking for a stylish and unique engagement ring that you won’t see coming and going you should check out the Cento Collection from Roberto Coin. These Roberto Coin diamond rings range in style from big and bold to clean and simple. My personal favorite happens to be the C profile engagement ring that does a magnificent job keeping the focus on the center diamond. And who wouldn’t want to do that when the diamond that symbolizes your life long commitment is a Cento Diamond. The name Cento means “one hundred” in Italian and that is the amount of facets that these specially cut diamonds have. The result is a diamond that exhibits an unbelievable amount of fire and brilliance. And like the rest of his fine jewelry collection, Roberto Coin diamond rings feature the signature ruby set inside each ring. According to ancient lore a ruby, when worn close to the skin, gives the wearer peace and a long life filled happiness.

Let us be the first (or one of the first) to say congratulations! You know he is going to pop the question and now it’s time to give him a few subtle hints of what styles you might like. One of the easiest ways to do this is to go out and buy one of the many bridal magazines that are available at you local news stand. Once you start browsing the pages you’ll see a ton of designer engagement rings from many different companies like Tacori, Simon G and Ritani just to name a few. Speaking of Tacori, did you know that is the company that has designed many celebrities rings including the latest bachelorette DeAnna Pappas? Anyway so once you find a ring in the magazines that you like you can rip the page out and leave it laying around if you want him to “get the hint” or just show it to him. He’ll appreciate this because it is going to make his life a whole lot easier!

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Jewelry trends for fall and winter 2008 – We are heading into our third day at the Couture 2008 jewelry show and I’m happy to report we haven’t been disappointed at all with the jewelry shown so far.

By far and away the strongest trends we have seen is the explosion of jewelry featuring organic shapes. The pearls in particular have been spectacular, especially the large baroque pearls from Yvel in black, white and gold mixed with diamonds.

As far as the over all color trends go, things seemed to have toned down from the days when shocking pink was the rule. The stones being feature in the jewelry are leaning once again towards the classics, including black, gray, brown and even some white. Some of the most outrageous pieces we saw actually featured large black diamonds, gray diamonds and rose cut diamonds.

Some of the trends from last year like rose gold, cuff bracelets, bangle bracelets, large hoop earrings and bold gold still have plenty of life left in them. However with the price of gold the way it is, some designers have tried to create gold jewelry pieces that still look bold but are actually wafer thin. These pieces were horrible! I know the suppliers wanted to keep the prices down but the style and feel didn’t translate at all. I think our clients want quality and substance when it comes to fine jewelry.

And for those of you who love designer jewelry like we do, there are tons of new pieces coming out from the top brands. We are expanding our current collections of Aaron Basha, John Hardy, Roberto Coin and Mikimoto tremendously. We are also adding quite few new exciting designers to our lineup (we’ll let you know who they are as soon as the product is on its way). And don’t worry guys, we haven’t forgot about you! We are bringing in a ton of edgy sterling silver men’s jewelry including designer cufflinks, heavy men’s bracelets and necklaces and quite a few accessories to boot.

More updates to follow as things progress…………

Thanks for reading,

Sean

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Roberto Coin is hosting the YouthAIDS Benefit in VA on Friday November 2, 2007 at the Ritz Tysons Corner. This years theme is Hollywood meets Bollywood featuring celebrities like Gala Host Ashley Judd, award presenter Bono, Actor Emmy Rossum, Frederique Van Der Wal, Top Chef’s Padma Lakshmi, Miss India Puja Gupta, and The Honorable Nancy Pelosi to just name a few.

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This is the NEWEST version of Roberto Coin’s Classic Elephant Skin Collection! Roberto Coin has tons of entirely new collections as well as new versions of some of his timeless classics. This piece has a domed feature to it that adds elegance! This Roberto Coin bracelet has flexible rows of 18k yellow gold and is pave set with almost a one carat of diamonds!

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We are fast approaching the ever important Holiday season and it time to give an update on the jewelry trends we reported in early 2007. Our clients demand for yellow has been even stronger than expected. Thank God, because yellow gold is 80% percent of what we bought at the jewelry shows this year! Another jewelry trend we reported earlier on was big gold hoops and what a bright spot hoops have been. Not only have they been doing well in yellow gold, we have seen women falling in love with diamond hoops in large sizes all over again! (Check out Ashanti’s diamond hoops at the VMA’s). (more…)