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...least 20 emeralds the size of almonds?all perfectly matched?that was two months in the making. Gruosi-Scheufele's favorite piece from this collection (called the 709 Collection after the flagship's address) is a whimsical, lily-shaped necklace made of pink heart-shaped sapphires, diamonds and quartz...
...Concord's new C1 (above) is the brand's impressive attempt to reclaim a spot in watchmaking's top tier. Over the course of its history?the company marks its 100th anniversary this year?Concord has produced timepieces for world leaders and, owing in part to its advancements with quartz watches in the 1970s, has been at the vanguard of engineering. But in recent years, public perception of the brand has veered toward the staid side of traditional. Keen to shed that reputation, Concord has taken a bold step, discontinuing production of every one of its many models, eschewing quartz...
...forts cannot be exported. The Rev. Hakluyt had imagined that the colonies "would yield unto us all the commodities of Europe, Africa and Asia." Perhaps the settlers would discover gold. All they found were a few semiprecious stones--garnets, amethysts, quartz crystals. Perhaps they could manufacture glass. One resupply ship brought eight German and Polish craftsmen. Most of them ran off to live with the Indians...
Every collector has a story. Mine begins in the stone age. No, not that Stone Age. My personal stone age. For a couple of years in grade school I collected minerals. Granite, pyrite, rose quartz - all of them were hunted down in the wild or purchased at hobby shops, glued onto cardboard supports and lovingly mounted in "presentation boxes," which were presented to no one because no one else was really that interested. But I was. By the time I reached the age of 10, what I didn't know about feldspar was not worth knowing...
...property comes from the waterfall, which snakes over shining rocks like a silver ribbon. Before a flood of gold miners, loggers and sugarcane farmers pushed them from their traditional lands, women from the Kuku Yalanji Aboriginal tribe visited the large pool at the base of the fall to make quartz knives and pounding stones. These days Keely Naden visits the same spot her ancestors knew so well, but now she takes lodge guests with her, and her daily walk is a highlight of a stay here. The bush amble includes spotting Boyd's forest dragon lizards amid the thick foliage...