While this season’s fashions are slim and feminine, jewelry has gone clunkier, chunkier and even a little retro.

Everything from a winter sweater to a little black dress can shine with the help of a few select pieces. So what can we expect to see at holiday parties?

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A popular motif in jewelry, even among city dwellers, is horses. Horse jewelry is enigmatic and evokes a sense of strength as well as of mystery. Now one would have to ask: why horses? Why care about an animal rarely seen in the city anyway?

Horses symbolize freedom, and pride in freedom....

You should be familiar with some terminology before you learn about watches. Horology is the art of making clocks, watches and other devices for telling time and it is also the study/science of measuring time. An effort has been made to measure time since man appeared on earth.

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The Hope Diamond

The history of the Hope diamond, believed to be the worlds largest deep blue diamond, is full of twists. The 112 carat stone that became the Hope beganwhen the French merchant traveler, Jean Baptiste Tavernier purchase the stone from the Kollur mine in Golconda, India, in...

Of all the well-known big diamonds the most infamous is the Hope Diamond, a blue colored beauty that was dubbed The Killing Stone.

According to the legend the hope was placed in front of a Buddha statue when it was stolen by a warrior, Tavernier, and a curse that foretold bad luck and...

Charms are also known as amulets and pendants. They are as popular today as they have been throughout recorded history. Ancient Egyptians wore bracelets with charms or amulets. They were used to protect against bad luck and evil forces. They began with religious symbols and became a part of...

The Gallets, citizens of Geneva since 1466, have a long history of being goldsmiths and watchmakers. Initially, they began by manufacturing gold cases for pocket watches for men and necklace watches for women. As they were in close contact with watch manufacturers, they quickly learnt the...

The historical custom of wearing charm bracelets dates back millenia, and though the materials and designs on them have changed, the concept itself has never gone out of style.

This form of jewelry initially had a religous function, and dates back to the prehistoric era. Based on data...

Watch any of the major movie, television, and music award shows on television today and one of the first things youll notice about the celebrities on the red carpet, aside from their extravagant (and sometimes outlandish) attire, are the amount and size of the jewelry they are wearing. Hip-hop...

Have you ever noticed the kid in the mall wearing a chain and cross gleaming with what looks like diamond jewelry? They arent diamonds, of course and they may not be kids. In todays Hip Hop age we are facing an explosion of interest in these fake diamonds better known as cubic zirconia. Hip Hop...

Hardcore Watches: The Watch With the Heart of a Biker.

Hardcore Watch Company was established in more than a decade ago with a single idea in mind: to create watches that could capture the rough, take-no-crap attitude and individuality of bikers. But just because Hardcore Watches...

Handcrafting Jewelry Boxes – What It Really Means to be Committed to Quality

Theres so much hype in todays marketplace about quality, it has become an almost meaningless word. So rather than talk on and on about quality, it will be more instructive to talk you through the rigorous...