The Rare and Precious Gems Investor Report provides important company updates and current market information about Natural Colored Diamonds for you as an investor.

Rare Natural Colored Diamonds Break Price Records at Auctions

“If you have money to invest, there is no safer haven than something rare,” says Laurence Graff, the London-born “King of Diamonds”. In December 2008, in the midst of the worldwide credit crisis, Graff paid $24.3 million for the 35.56-carat, 17th-century Wittelsbach blue diamond at Christie’s in London. At the time, he set the auction record for any jewel. But according to Graff, “it was the bargain of the century. In my life, it is the rarest of them all; it is the supreme coloured diamond.”

Private buyers are definitely seeing Graff’s logic as over the past two months they have broken records with the prices they have paid buying rare Natural Colored Diamonds.

On December 1, Christie’s Hong Kong auctioned off “Vivid Pink” a potentially flawless 5-carat diamond that sold to a private Asian buyer for nearly $10.8 million, the world auction record for a pink diamond. This works out to $2.1 million per carat, a new world auction record for any diamond.

On November 17, at Sotheby’s “Magnificent Jewels” auction, a rare 2.52 carat vivid green diamond sold for $3.08 million. It was the largest vivid-green diamond ever to appear at auction, and its sale set a new world-record price per carat for a green diamond at auction.

As your exclusive, mine-direct connection, Rare and Precious Gems carries the world’s most beautiful pink, green, blue and other colored diamonds for investment and for stunning jewelry pieces.

With all the media attention from these record breaking Natural Colored Diamonds, the interest in them has never been greater. Anyone who has invested in them should be pretty pleased about these developments.

A Toast to the Investment Potential of Champagne Diamonds

Celebrating the New Year has always been associated with champagne. In the Natural Colored Diamond industry it’s all about Champagne Diamonds, gems that have strong potential for massive investment gains for the savvy investor.

When Champagne Diamonds were introduced to the North American market in the early 90s, retailers snubbed the brown stones, dismissing them as cheap, low-quality, industrial diamonds.

"The connotation in the trade was that browns were no good," said Robert May, executive director of the Natural Color Diamond Association. "But the perception to the consumer was different. The perception was that they were valuable."

As we started the new millennium, jewelry designers began to bridge the gap between retailers' perceptions and consumer actuality by using the less expensive browns to create experimental designs with warm, nuanced palettes. Once only available to department stores and mass merchants, champagne diamonds, along with the darker-hued, higher valued cognacs, now have a strong presence in the high-end market.

About a year and a half ago, Rio Tinto embarked on a campaign to convince everyone once and for all. The mining giant owns the Argyle Mine in Western Australia, the world's largest supplier of brown diamonds. To help stimulate demand among retailers, the company launched a trade campaign that includes new promotional materials and a revamped website, ChampagneDiamondCenter.com. Earlier this year, they held a Champagne Diamond jewelry design competition that culminated this fall in an exhibition of the winning pieces, which traveled to select retail stores around North America.

At Rare and Precious Gems, we saw the market potential and got in at the ground floor with Rio Tinto. As a result, we have a strong industry relationship with them and are able to leverage that to get our investors the best prices.

Celebrities have been sporting Champagne Diamond jewelry in all the big awards events over the past ten years, and now with all the recent media attention the gems have been receiving, consumers demand is increasing. And yet surprisingly, Champagnes are still less expensive to buy than similar quality white diamonds.

But, with Argyle mine scheduled for closure in 2018, there is great potential for Champagne Diamonds to spike in value. When Argyle mine closes and the flow of Champagne Diamonds into the marketplace slows to a trickle, their true rarity will be realized. And when that time comes, savvy investors who have added these precious gems to their portfolios will be smiling all the way to the banks.

Rare and Precious Gems Website Launch - Spring 2010

Our launch date for the new Rare and Precious Gems Website is Saturday, March 20, the first day of spring. Spring is all about new growth and we are excited about all the opportunities that will blossom from our new site. RareandPreciousGems.com is going to be the best source of information online for colored diamond investors. It will include:

• A “Vault” system for investors, allowing them to see all the stones they own with complete information on each.
• A blog that will feature posts about the latest information on Natural Colored Diamond investment.
• An improved “Vault” system for potential investors that will allow us to highlight all the stones available through Rare and Precious Gems that match their criteria.

As always, the best opportunities for investment in the Natural Colored Diamond industry is with the ArgylePink Diamond collection. When you “own Argyle”, you own diamond investment. Contact us now to see our current selection of ArgylePink Diamonds and other colored stones.