Re: Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall's Emerald Necklace Archived Message
Posted by Nellie  on August 22, 2014, 7:59 am, in reply to "Re: Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall's Emerald Necklace"
All interesting.
I don't like the borders on the emeralds.
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: I agree with you that, among Camilla's three
: Saudi necklaces, the emerald one is probably
: the most easily wearable.
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: But I think the emerald necklace would be
: improved if some smaller diamond motifs were
: introduced between each emerald. In the
: necklace's current shape, the emeralds are
: too close to one another, too concentrated.
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: You have perfectly described the style of
: the sapphire necklace, and the ruby one
: looks more like a breast plate rather than
: like a necklace... A full transformation
: would be the best thing to do. But of
: course, it could be perceived as a rude and
: possibly offending gesture by those who
: presented the necklace...
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: We can also notice that Camilla wore the
: earrings of the demi-parure only once (the
: 2009 ‘Peter Pan’ performance), whereas she
: wore her personal modern chandelier diamond
: earrings on the two 2010 outings.
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: As it is often the case with the jewels
: presented by the Middle-Eastern rulers, the
: stones seem to be of prime quality (in this
: case, beautiful rectangular emeralds of a
: fair size, and with a deep green colour,
: with hardly no inclusions visible), but
: unfortunately, they are set up in a modern,
: but very plain, uninspired design (the
: emeralds, each framed by a thin diamond
: border, are strung together, next to each
: other, without intermediary elements, for
: instance diamond spacers), which gives the
: jewel a rather heavy, disappointing look.
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: I would dream that Camilla (discreetly)
: brings her Saudi jewels to Garrard or
: another skilled jeweller to dismantle the
: jewels and reuse the beautiful stones in new
: jewels of a more elegant and traditional
: design (for example, I think these
: rectangular emeralds would fit perfectly if
: they were integrated into a jewel with
: diamond Greek meander motives). Just my very
: own, personal, subjective and debatable
: opinion, of course.
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: Thank you for these lovely, watermark-free
: pictures of The Duchess!
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: These jewels (the emerald ones) are again an
: example for how taste differs. It's
: particularly this 'geometric', puristic
: setting which makes me fond of this
: necklace. I think it makes it wearable for
: grand as well as for less formal occasions.
: It's from all three (assumed) Saudi
: necklaces the most interesting... in my
: personal, subjective and also debatable
: opinion .
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: On the other side, I don't care for the
: other two necklaces - the ruby is 'too much'
: and the sapphire one looks like 'unfinished'
: for me. The sapphire necklace has imo a very
: uninspired setting...'we have a chain of
: diamonds and oh, we could hang on some
: sapphires' .
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: I share your wish of transformation for the
: latter two necklaces. The ruby necklace
: would have a true potential for a lovely
: choker with some fringes, the jeweller would
: not even have to change the whole design,
: but to 'tone it down' a bit would do
: wonders, wouldn't it? And the sapphire
: necklace...well, I'd suggest a complete
: resetting.
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