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Why do Queen Elizabeth and other royals love semi-precious stones? Cartier created bespoke pieces for Wallis Simpson while the British monarch wore red spinels and aquamarines
Semi-precious stones include tourmaline ... surrounded with bursts of onyx, circular-cut rubies, sapphires and diamonds. The necklace suspends a square-shaped ruby, joined by a similarly set ...
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What are ‘semi-precious’ stones? From Louis Vuitton to Cartier and Van Cleef & Arpels, brands are using tourmalines, aquamarines and opals to bring a blaze of colour ...
Francesca Cartier Brickell’s book on Cartier talks up semi-precious stones, as do Victoria Lampley Berens of jewellery consultancy The Stax and Sophie Howard, founder of By Pariah By Pariah’s ...