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...suit and a pair of Mephisto athletic shoes, then paces briskly on a treadmill for 30 minutes. He has been doing this every day since his heart attack in 1987. He flips through six newspapers, eats a cardiologically correct breakfast, changes into his street clothes and -- with an 18-karat Cartier bracelet on his right wrist and a sleek, all-black Movado watch on his left -- descends to his apartment-house garage. There he climbs into his black Lincoln Town Car and drives across the Key Bridge to Georgetown, where he gets his thinning hair done by Bernard of Okyo...
...Gerald Ratner so successful? In just six years the Englishman has parlayed a two-karat family business into the world's largest jewelry retailer, with 1,000 stores in the U.S. (under the names Kay and Sterling) and an equal number in Britain. In a speech last week at London's Albert Hall before the annual convention of the prestigious Institute of Directors, Ratner, 41, offered a four-point program for becoming a multimillionaire...
...jeweler Piaget, whose motto is "Always do better than is necessary," is betting that the time is ripe for a new round of conspicuous consumption. Later this month Piaget will unveil its $1 million, gem-encrusted Aura watch, a flashy bauble that sports 237 diamonds set in an 18-karat-gold band and case...
Coin fanciers responded excitedly in 1986 when Japan began issuing its first gold coins since World War II. Minted by the Bank of Japan to commemorate the | 60th year of Emperor Hirohito's reign, the 24-karat pieces were coveted by collectors even though the Ministry of Finance set the price of the 20-gram coins at 100,000 yen (now $690) -- more than twice the value of their weight in gold. To meet heavy demand, Japan minted 11 million coins...
...before Allen's Jan. 3 birthday, Stuart bought a $250, 14-karat gold brooch at a jewelry store in Peabody. He made the purchase about the same time his family was meeting to discuss how to handle Matthew's confession. Allen says she never received the brooch and that the calls were made only after a mutual friend said Charles complained that she had never contacted him. She used the credit card so the calls would not show up on her parents' telephone bill, because they had warned her not to get involved. She, in fact, has a steady boyfriend...