Halo pendant now available for purchase…

We’re pleased to announce that our Halo pendants make their return – offered for 1.00ct and 1.25ct round Asha centers, these produce a stunning look of the center Asha floating on a bed of diamonds. 

We had previously offered these, but they were entirely hand-made and took a long time to make and cost quite a bit.  We’re remade them using our new CAD system, which allows us to cast them and have the high tolerances of computer design – the result is an identical look, but with a much lower price. 

We are offering these as a pre-holiday special until November 21st.  Details and online purchasing are here.

Large restock of fancy cuts…

After two months of work, we are pleased to announce that we have completed a major restocking for princess cuts, asscher cuts, flanders cuts and emeralds.  Many of these have been sold out during that two month wait as we had a lot more sales during the summer than we were expecting.

 Here is the list of newly completed cuts now available:

Princess:  1.50ct, 2.00ct, 2.50ct, 3.00ct

Flanders: 1.00ct, 1.50ct

Asscher: 1.50ct, 2.00ct

Emerald: 1.50ct

We hope we have made enough to last us through the holidays.  We are currently working on restocking our sold out pink 1.00ct rounds.

More nice feedback from customers…

We’ve finally had a chance to catch up and post many of the nice feedback emails we’ve received over the past year.  As always, we appreciate these customers taking the time to write and let us know their thoughts after receiving/wearing their purchases from us!  The full testimonial/feedback section can be viewed by clicking here.

One ring that has been a standout in terms of positive feedback is our 1895 Cartier reproduction ring (and band), and this is one of the latest comments we recently received:

“I have just received my ring and it is amazing!  … it is more beautiful in reality than any photograph could capture. WOW! “

You can view our 1895 ring page here.

Link back to our news archives…

The wordpress format is definitely working out well for us.  However, for reference, here is the link to our all our previous news archives:

http://betterthandiamond.com/news/latest.php

Rubies and Sapphires, made in outer space…

Some jewelers weren’t happy to have competition when we started selling our lab grown sapphires, because ‘real sapphires’ only come from under the earth.  Right?

Well, as luck would have it, scientists have now discovered that quasars are apparently also acting like giant labs in the sky and spewing out rubies and sapphires all across outerspace. 

The full article and an artists rendering are here:

Cosmic factories produce rubies, sapphires

“Like enormous jewel factories in the sky, the chaotic environments around some supermassive black holes crank out prodigious amounts of glass, rubies and sapphires, a new study finds.”

Definitely puts a new perspective on the concept of ‘natural’ sapphires.

Latest news now moved to WordPress…

We’ve moved our latest news to wordpress to facilitate posting news more frequently.  Hopefully you’ll like the new format, as well as the automatic search ability!

 Update on Sold out princess cuts:  We’re in the process of coating the latest batch of princess cuts, and hope to have them ready for sale around Oct. 25th or so. 

More pinks coming:  The pink rounds have turned into a suprisingly strong seller (they initially sold very slowly, so we had planned not to restock…but every batch we make now quickly sells out).  Thus, we have another even larger batch of both 1ct pink rounds, as well as some 2ct princess cuts underway.  These will be available in Mid-November.