Prestige Promenade pearls and sweets
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40 www.thejewelrybook.com John, owner and company namesake, along with partners Cliff Wallace and Mike Money spend 80% of their time looking at potential inventory, whether through dealers who come to visit or by traveling around the globe to the major gem shows. As a result, they have great intuition and keen expertise as far as evaluating the potential of a particular specimen or category of stones. Over the past few years, the company has seen renewed interest in untreated rubies from Mozambique, Sri Lankan sapphires, and emeralds from Columbia and Zambia, and has invested accordingly. They are also always on the lookout for fi ne estate pieces, rare alexandrites, paraiba tourmaline, tanzanian spinel, cat's eye chrysoberyl, black opal, spessarite garnet, and certain varieties of pearls. If it's unusu- ally beautiful and scarce, it will be up for consider- ation! For example, although pearls are a minor part of the business, John recently came across a strand of steel blue, Tahitian South Sea pearls. The color and quality were so stunningly singular that he knew he had to take advantage of the opportunity. Looking to 2015, John Buechner will be exhibiting at the AGTA Tucson show for the 41st year in a row! Currently working on some unique multicolor pieces that will debut at the show, the company will also offer a range of center-stone fi nished jewelry featuring important gems like natural fancy color diamonds, colored sapphires, and traditional and fancy-cut white diamonds. The majority of his jewelry is set in platinum, but he recently has begun to integrate rose and yellow gold accents, in response to demand in the market. If you're visiting the February shows, be on the lookout for a magnifi cent 20-carat Australian black opal… John saw it in Hong Kong and delayed a bit in bidding on it, only to lose out to another dealer, and it's haunted him ever since. In his words, "When you see something special, snap it up!" "When you see something special, snap it up!" J O H N B U E C H N E R D E S I G N E R P R O F I L E Exquisite sapphire and diamond jewelry. An incomparable 7-carat unheated ruby.