Prices start at $2,200 for a white gold and diamond pendant and go up to $2.5 million for the padparadscha sapphire and diamond Sunset necklace. The collection will travel through Winston’s store network across the U.S., Europe and Asia in the coming months. Winston, which launches a large high jewelry collection every two years or so, plans on marketing the Made in New York collection through print advertising. “In these sorts of times, creative companies will thrive,” said O’Neill, who said luxury goods are still relevant and selling, but that it’s “more muted than in the past few years. O’Neill, chief executive officer of Harry Winston, it will be a significant source of sales, although he declined to project how much.
The line consists of 40 pieces and, according to Thomas J. In January 2013 the Swatch Group acquired the Harry Winston jewelry and timepiece retail business.The Folklore Connect to Host Paris Fashion Week Showroom When Ronald Winston retired in 2008, the firm had expanded to include retail locations in Europe and the Far East as well as a watch business centered in Switzerland.
Upon Harry Winston’s death in 1978, the company continued the tradition of creating exclusively priced classic designs under the leadership of his eldest son Ronald Winston. In one Winston signature, marquise-cut diamonds are clustered in a luxurious spray, creating elegant earrings. The designs often feature pear or marquise-cut stones in an unobtrusive platinum wirework setting that he refined in the 1940s. Harry Winston’s jewelry is known for the high quality of its diamonds and gemstones set off by minimal settings. Several years after the tour ended, Winston donated many of the jewels, including the Hope Diamond to the Smithsonian Museum where it remains on display. Valued at 10 million dollars, the collection also included the largest of the twelve Jonker stones weighing 125.35 carats, the 94.80 pear-shaped Star of the East Diamond and the 337.10 carat Sapphire of Catherine the Great. Having acquired a formidable collection of historic stones, headlined by the incomparable Hope Diamond, Winston toured the collection called, the “Court of Jewels” around the world, starting in November 1949.
One writer at the time claimed that “no gem in the world’s history has won greater fame or done more to increase the public’s love and appreciation for diamonds.” 1 Harry Winston Emerald and Diamond Necklace. Winston chose proportion and brilliance over weight retention, putting the modern brilliant-cut diamond and the American jewelry industry at the forefront. As the largest stone ever to be cleaved in the United States, its cutting was well publicized and followed intently by the American public in newsreels, newspapers and radio broadcasts. He set precedent by choosing an American, Lazare Kaplan, over well-established European gem cutters to cut the rough. In 1932, Winston opened an eponymous retail store at 527 Fifth Avenue in New York using his motto: “Rare Jewels of the World.” He became the largest individual dealer of diamonds and achieved international fame for working with the world’s most famous diamonds.Īmong Winston’s early achievements was the 1934 purchase of the 726 carat “Jonker” diamond, at the time the second largest diamond in the world.
By the 1920s, he had established himself as an astute buyer of jewelry collections, working with banks and trusts to acquire well-known and important estates. Harry Winston (1896-1976), the American diamond dealer and jeweler nicknamed “The King of Diamonds”, started his career at the age of fifteen working in his father’s California jewelry store.
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