diamond cartier love bracelet
Q.oes anyone else like them as much as I do? It's a good thing I'm not partial to jewelry for I just got one from Tiffany & Co that has some interesting items in it. There is a pair of diamond earrings set in platinum selling for $23,950, a bit gaudy for my taste but a nice Christmas stocking stuffer, wouldn't you say?
A.I like catalogs a lot. The secret is to mark the pages for everything you like, and then hide the catalog for 6 months. By then it will be out of season, out of stock, or you will have thought better of it. Otherwise, browsing catalogs gets much too expensive. I love jewelry, and I like to look at the Tiffany catalog when it shows up here occasionally, but I would never pay their prices for jewelry just to get it in a blue box. I'd go down to my favorite estate dealer on the Bowery and buy those earrings second hand a few years hence, for a quarter of the money. Or rather, I'd buy something else. My taste in diamonds runs to neither gaudy nor platinum settings. The only diamonds I actually have were either gifts or inherited, and I prefer the ones from the eras when yellow gold was in fashion, rather than white gold or platinum. I know the theory that white metal makes the diamonds look better, but I just like the warm colors of yellow and/or rose gold better. I do remember the first Christmas I was in the city, going down Fifth Avenue to see the stores, and hauling my college roommate bodily through the door at Cartier's to do some window shopping, over vociferous protests. She was positive that a) they would be insufferably rude, and/or throw us out for being poor people, and b) a jewelry store was a symptom of bourgeois decadence that a good Marxist shouldn't be caught dead in. Of course, fifteen minutes later she was having the time of her life. I still remember exactly the velvet evening dress she described herself as needing to go with a little bauble of a $500,000 pin she fell in love with! Oh yes, the staff was very polite and friendly, although I'm sure secretly somewhat amused. That's the difference between Cartier's and Tiffany's.
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