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Planning a Jewellery Gift: Size, Spelling and Timing

A jewellery gift needs three things right: the size, the spelling and the timing. For size, choose a necklace, earrings or an adjustable piece when you cannot measure. For a name or letter, confirm...

How to Measure Your Wrist for a Bracelet

To measure your wrist, wrap a soft tape or a strip of paper around it just below the wrist bone, where a bracelet sits, and read the length in centimetres. For a fine chain bracelet, a common rule ...

How to Find Your Ring Size at Home (EU and US)

The easiest way to find your ring size at home is to wrap a strip of paper around the base of your finger, mark where it meets, and measure the length in millimetres: that is your finger's circumfe...

Shabka Guide: Choosing Bridal Jewellery in the Gulf

A shabka is the jewellery a groom gives his bride around the engagement. What it includes varies by family, but it usually starts with a diamond ring and adds pieces that match: a necklace and earr...

What VS Clarity and G-H Colour Mean in Diamond Jewellery

VS (very slightly included) means a diamond's inclusions are minor and normally invisible to the eye; G-H colour means near-colourless, with no tint you would notice once set. Together they give br...

How Many Carats? Choosing a Centre Diamond Size for an Engagement Ring

For most engagement rings, 1 carat is the size people picture: a round diamond about 6.5 mm across. In our 18K gold Classic rings, a 1 ct centre diamond costs AED 6,000 lab-grown or AED 45,000 natu...

CVD Lab-Grown Diamonds Explained: How They Are Made and What They Cost

A CVD lab-grown diamond is a real diamond, made of the same carbon with the same hardness and sparkle as a natural one, but grown layer by layer in a laboratory instead of formed in the earth. In o...

IGI or GIA Diamond Report: What It Covers and How to Read It

An IGI or GIA report is an independent grading of one diamond: its carat, colour, clarity, cut (for round diamonds), measurements and whether it is natural or lab-grown. It covers the centre diamon...

Round Brilliant Diamond Ring Guide: Cut, Carat and Price

A round brilliant diamond sparkles more than any other shape and never goes out of style, which is why it is the most chosen engagement ring stone. For a round, the cut grade matters most. The Lana...

Marquise Diamond Ring Guide: Shape, Bow-Tie, Carat and Price

A marquise diamond is long and narrow with two pointed ends, and it looks larger than most shapes of the same carat because so much of the stone faces up. The Lana Al Kamal Classic Marquise ring in...