Jewellery & Watches

Leon Hatot Jewelry House is presented as the legendary brand, exclusive jewelry known all over the world, and the brand setting trends in the world of watch haute couture. The Christie's auction offers hundred thousand Euros just for the draft of watches made by Leon Hatot, the brand founder, a hundred years ago, as appropriate for the true art works.

The word «cameo» is frequently used in cases when it is required to depict something graceful, and actually in these cases «cameo» from the noun turns into the descriptive attribute. If a thing or phenomenon is described that they resemble cameo, it is the same to state that the mentioned things are gracefully beautiful, and unusually elegant. Stones with carved pictures made asrelief are called cameo. Thus, they differ from entails performed with deep engraved pictures, and were used as seals during ancient times.

Jacob & Co is a relatively young brand, considering its market niche. The company founded in the late 80-ies of the last century produces jewelry and luxury watches. Jacob and Co is popular in the entire world because of its passion for precision and, sophisticated and original timepieces. Almost every model of the Jacob Arabo's collection is designed with many diamonds. Mostly the Jacob and Co watches are appreciated by the music and movie stars for their outstanding design, beauty and functionality.

Garnet is the mineral of the intensive red color and high rigidity that in appearance resembles the grains of pomegranate. The name of the mineral comes from Latin «Granatum» which means grain. Garnet jewelry was used back some time in the epoch of Scythians. The jewelry with garnet came to Europe in the times of romanticism. And the jewelers of that period favored for heart-shaped pendants and other jewelry encrusted with fine garnets stones. Such jewelry is the perfect gift for those who is born in January since this mineral is the talisman for Aquarius, as well as for couples who celebrate two years of family life.

Citrine, based on the French word «citron» refers to any quartz crystal or quartz cluster that has a yellow or citrus color to it. Despite the fact that this stone is known from the time immemorial, for centuries it did not have a name. Moreover, it was misnamed a topaz, to which it has a very strong resemblance. All in all, more than twenty names for citrine were known and they all were considered to be different stones, while in fact these names referred to one stone, citrine.

Beryl is not a single stone, this name refers to the whole family of minerals which also includes blue aquamarine, dark green emeralds, golden heliodor, yellowish-green chrysoberyl, chameleonic alexandrite (it changes color from red-purple under artificial lighting to green in daylight), pink or peach morganite, and bluish-green euclase. The gemstones of the beryl family were mentioned by Pliny the Elder and Theophrastus.

Tourmaline is a gemstone which appears in numerous legends, from the thrilling stories about artful magicians who earthed these gems as an instructional matrix for the generations to come, to legends about extraterrestrial intelligence that «materialized» tourmalines on Earth for a superior purpose. Tourmalines are gems with an incomparable variety of colors. The reason, according to an old Egyptian legend, is that the tourmaline, on its long journey up from the centre of the Earth, passed over a rainbow. In doing so, it assumed all the colors of the rainbow.

Jadeite is the semi-precious ornamental stone resembling greenstone but with the other components inside. On the top of it, jadeite is rarely discovered unlike greenstone. In the earlier time greenstone and jade were referred to one class minerals, now jade is only jadeite not other stones. Jade was considered as the sacred stone from the time immemorial and our forefathers believed that this stone is able to influence the weather and treat various diseases. The precise name of the stone is not known.

Mountain green aka malachite is one of the natural minerals with patterns that are so admired. Since early times malachite was considered as the mineral that is able to recover the serenity of mind, sobriety and give the skill to take willful and wide decisions. According to ancient traditions, malachite is the stone of physicians and scientists and symbolizes accomplishment of desires. Malachite is known from the ancient times and it was highly popular from that time. The most ancient malachite item is the pendant from the neolithic cemetery in Irak.

Panerai Company manufactures the high class elegant watches and designer solutions by Panerai meet the requirements by the experts. Guido Panerai& Figlio Company is established in 1860 in Florence, Italy. The brand becomes at the time the official manufacturer of specialized and military watches for the Italian Navy. In 1936 the Company renamed as Officine Panerai, presents the special model of watches for divers. Radiomir watch is exclusively created for the secret torpedo group. And in 1938 Radiomir model was manufactured in hundreds of copies.

All told, ankle bracelets is a little bit absurd since the word «bracelet» in French stands for «wrist» coming from the «bras» as hand. Thus, we have it as paradox wrist adornment for feet. Anyway, the anklets is accepted as the unique ring accessory made from metal, stones, leather and whatever the designers can create from.

In 1980 Carlo Crocco first manufactured the gold named Hublot with the wristlet of black rubber. And this very first model of watch is believed to be the example that put the changes to all the levels of watch making. The royal families were the first people who dragged attention to Hublot, and the trend was successfully accepted by the celebrities. Carlo Crocco was risky, though Hublot was acknowledged as one of the trendiest brands in the watch making sphere. The splendid shape of the watch, black dial plate in minimalism style and the very typical for the Company wristlet of natural rubber.