MIKIMOTO Grace Pearl Appear at Basel

REVIEW: 2010 Mar 18 to Mar 25, on the Basel, Switzerland, World Watch and Jewellery Expo, the world's top brands MIKIMOTO Mikimoto comes out with its newest fine jewelry series.

Basel World Watch and Jewellery Expo is the most prestigious and leading Jewellery and Watch Expo in the world.

Since 1996, MIKIMOTO Mikimoto has always been the seat guest of Basel, the brand also takes the event to show their newest series of fine jewelry to the honoured guests and experts from around the world.

During the Expo, MIKIMOTO was carrying their exquisite work technology of hundred years sediment and their ingenious design of master level, offered nine classic fine jewelry, they were built by White South Sea pearls, Golden South Sea pearls, Black South Sea Pearls and Japanese Akoya Pearls.

The inspiration of one of fine jewelry work is from the romantic Rose Garden, the graceful White South Sea pearlS and Golden South Sea pearlS with the beautiful diamonds, the charming form of rose was expressed to such a full extent!

Another masterpiece "The Beauty of tides", the complex beauty of the diamond has been integrated perfectly into the gentle power of Japanese Akoya pearls, the pearl and diamond blends into a harmonious whole in this exquisite jewelry work.

This work evokes the people's thinking of ocean soul, the real three-dimensional visual effects also caused the people's deep resonance to the maternal force of nature, it has been proved to be a model work of MIKIMOTO master level.

The Beauty of Tides

Retail price: ￥65,000,000 yen (about $ 793,000)
Necklace of Akoya pearls with diamonds.

Rose Garden

Retail price: ￥95,000,000 yen (about $ 1,159,000)
Necklace of golden South Sea pearls with black South Sea pearls and platinum diamonds

Morning Dew in Dancing

Retail price: ￥50,000,000 yen (about $ 610,000)
Necklace of Akoya pearls with platinum diamonds

The Dream of Flower

Retail price: ￥82,000,000 yen (about $ 1,000,400)
Necklace of Akoya pearls with white South Sea pearls and platinum diamonds

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Classical Sentences for Marketers

1. The world will not give you glory for your knowledge, but for your benevolence.

2. most people only had three things in life: self-deception, deception, and be cheated.

3. life has five asking:

      1) What do you want?

      2) What can you do?

      3) What are you doing?

      4) When will you get what you want to get?

      5) What should you do?

4. Do what you won't to do - to change; do what you are afraid to do - to break; do what you can do - to grow.

5. If you do not live in the future today, you will live in the past tomorrow.

6. In the world, there is no lack of money, but lack the trust of rich man to you.

7. If you have always been troubled by the past and nowadays, you'll lose the future for ever (Winston Churchill).

8. Position decides the status, head decides the purse, pattern decides the outcome, ideas decides the outlet.

9. I thought I could save the world in my childhood, and when I grow up, I discover that the whole world can not save me.

10. All entrepreneurs should always telling themselves a single sentence: from the first day of your business, what you have to face everyday are difficulties and failures, not success.

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An Extramarital Affair

A couple is watching TV.

By chance, the TV said: "Now 70% of men would like to have an extramarital  affair..."

Then the husband explained immediatelly: "I belong to the 30% of men, really, dear, otherwise I will be split by lightning."

At the moment, the TV continued: "The other 30% of men have had an extramarital affair..."

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Pearl Category - By Place of Origin

1. South Sea Pearl
South Sea Pearl is produced in the South Pacific water, the main producing shell is the large bead oyster shell, the main producing countries includes Australia, Indonesia, Philippines, Myanmar, Thailand and so on. South Sea cultured pearl is the most important source of high-end market seawater pearls. White is the main color of South Sea pearls, There are also some golden pearls, but very little production, estimated annual output of less than 100 kg, mainly in Australia, Myanmar, Malaysia and other countries.

2. Tahitian Black Pearl
Tahitian Black Pearl is mainly produced by the black lip shell which is distributed in the nearly square see waters at 0 - 20 Degrees South Latitude, 150 - 180 Degrees East Longitude, a large part comes from the water marsh of the islands which is formed from free coral reefs. Natural Black Pearl appears in the 18th century, and had been suffered from an serious man-made disasters in the 19th century . it was farmed since the early 1960s, the first 1,000 black cultured pearls were produced in 1965, now, most of the Tahitian black pearls on the market are cultured pearls.

3. Japanese seawater cultured pearls
Japan is the pioneer of modern seawater cultured pearls, the Japanese seawater cultured pearls is the protagonist of the international marketplace before 1990s, the maximum annual production of the seawater pearls was more than 100 tons ever, so for some time, the good seawater pearls were also known as Akoya Pearls, Mainly because that the cultured pearls of Akoya in the southern harbor area of Japanese are the best quality and enjoy a high reputation in the international marketplace.

4. Chinese South Sea seawater cultured pearls
Chinese South Sea seawater cultured pearls entered the international marketplace on a large scale in the 1980s, the current production has been close to the level of the Japanese seawater pearls. Chinese seawater cultured pearls mainly come from Guangxi Hepu and the North Sea, Leizhou Peninsula in Guangdong and the Sanya in Hainan, and other places.

5. Freshwater cultured pearls
In the world, freshwater pearls are mainly located in 20 - 40 Degrees North Latitude, freshwater pearls grow mainly in rivers and lakes. the famous "North Pearl" in Chinese history is the representative of such natural freshwater pearls. According to historical records, such pearls mainly produced in the lakes and rivers of Heilongjiang River Basin, so it has been known as "Lake Pearl". The pearl mussels used to culture freshwater pearls in Japan are Hyriopis Schegeli, and the pearl mussels used to cultured freshwater pearls in China mainly are CristariaPlicata, Hyriopsis cumingi, Lamprotula leai and clams, etc. Among them, the pearls produced in Hyriopsis cumingi mussel have the highest value.

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Pearl Size

Size range of 1 - 16 mm.

How Pearls Form?

Formation of pearls

Because there are little grains of sand fall into the shell body, then these sand grains were wrapped up by the secretion of shell body, slowly, over many years, to a certain number of years to form a pearl.

Cultured pearl farming methods is also the use of this principle.

There are freshwater pearls and seawater pearls.

The culture method of seawater pearl is: implants the small artificial beads nuclear into shell body to stimulate the shell body to secrete secretions to wrap this little pearl nucleus up, three to five years to form a pearl.

The culture method of freshwater pearl is: implants the small meat piece into shell body to stimulate the shell body to secrete secretions to wrap the small piece of meat up, a year later to form a pearl.

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The length contrast table for pearl necklace

1 inch = 25.4 mm

16 inches = 41 cm

18 inches = 46 cm

20 inches = 51 cm

22 inches = 56 cm

24 inches = 61 cm

30 inches = 76 cm

36 inches = 91 cm

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How big of the pearl you should choose?

Pearl size is measured by its diameter in millimeters. But ordinary consumers maybe has no special feeling to these figures, the understanding is nothing more than just size. We collected some common sense about the pearl size and wear, or can help you to know the different meanings of the pearl necklaces of different sizes.

6.0 - 7.0 mm

Such size of the pearls is the most common in the jewelry store.The smaller pearls is onsidered better suited for our young girls to wear, also, as the first string of pearl necklace, it is the best choice for her. In fact, such size of the pearls are often used as 16-year-old girl birthday gift or graduation gift.

7.0 - 8.0 mm

Such size of the pearls is often the preferred one when people buy a pearl necklace at the first time, for this size of pearl necklace can be described as classic, it is elegant and the price is not so expensive as that big pearls. It is very suitable as a birthday gift and university graduation gift. Actually, in the wedding such a special and beautiful places, we often see the bride wearing such size of pearl necklace.

8.0 - 8.5 mm

Such specification of the pearls can be described as the large and luxurious pearls. 8.0 or above is a rare pearl, therefor, it is very precious. This size of pearls is suitable for a birthday gift or anniversary gift, you can also give it to a new mother, or as a gift for some special occasion. it is the favorate for the mature lady of taste.

9.0 - 10.0 mm

Such pearl is extremely rare, so the price is extremely expensive. This kind of pearl left in the mother shell body longer than other pearls, in order to get a bigger pearl. In fact, such a string of pearls is a luxury, give it as an anniversary gift to a woman whom you are ready to spend your lifetime to love, or simply as a gift for a rich, charming and confident lady who is very qualified to have such extremely expensive luxury jewelry you think, it is quite perfect!

10.0 or above mm

10.0 or above mm pearls are very difficult to see, so the representatives of this specification are black Tahiti pearls, white South Sea pearls, and large freshwater pearls. 10.0 or above mm pearls is the maximum specification of the bead of pearl necklace. These large pearls necklace is the ultimate dream jewelry of ladies.
 
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