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What’s better than buying new clothes? Having jewelry that will match with absolutely every piece of clothing in your wardrobe!

Simple pieces of pure yellow or white gold, silver, platinum, etc. will match with essentially anything you choose to wear—to any occasion. Today the trend in jewelry is multicolor. Using multiple gems in multiple shades means more opportunity to wear that piece of jewelry.

The image you see here is from the front of a bracelet we are now featuring in our online jewelry auction. Believe it or not, this piece features only diamonds. I know! Hard to believe with all those colors. You are looking at 15 fancy orange enhanced diamonds, 13 fancy brown diamonds, 15 fancy pink enhanced diamonds, 30 fancy yellow enhanced diamonds, 15 white diamonds, 60 black opaque diamonds, 15 fancy green enhanced diamonds, and 29 fancy blue enhanced diamonds.

That is a lot of diamonds! In fact, it is 4.50 carats worth of diamonds set in a 14K white gold bracelet with a box clasp. Hurry and bid before she’s gone!

Somewhere out there, there just might be someone who is willing to put down the estimated $1.63 million on this bag. Surely when Japanese designer GinzaTanaka imagined this bag and proceeded with meticulous craftsmanship to scatter 2,182 diamonds across it’s platinum surface, he believed that someone out there would love it just that much.

And he is probably right. If not, we can think of some beautiful ways to arrange 208 carats in diamonds, such as some of the gorgeous diamond necklaces, watches and earrings that you will discover in our online jewelry auction. And since you can bid anything you wish, we’ll have no problem with you trying to reach a million, but, we are betting that you can find your dream diamonds for quite a bit less.

This is a “clutch” that you had really better clutch firmly. Crafted from pure platinum and scattered with 2,182 diamonds totaling 208 carats, this $1.63 million clutched fashioned by Tokyo jeweler GinzaTanaka is more like jewelry that you carry instead of wear.

If you tend to lose track of your purse a lot, you may want to put your diamonds on your ears, around your wrist or dangling from your neck. We can help you with that. Stop back daily to review our ever changing selection of fashion forward name brand jewelry where you can select jewelry styles from crazy bold, fashion bling to the purely elegant.

Here is another imaginative application of diamonds…

“New York-based A. Link has created a diamond-encrusted frame for the one-millionth Philips Ambilight FlatTV. The television features 2,200 diamonds totaling 225 carats of diamonds in a floral pattern. The Ambilight television surrounds the screen with ambient light that automatically adapts in color and intensity according to the changing content on the screen, resulting in a more immersive experience…. The bling TV will be exhibited around the world to Philips customers, employees and consumers before being auctioned off in late 2007 with the proceeds donated to charity.”
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Be sure to check out our online selection of TVs. Just click “more categories” in the left hand column.

British singer Skin is seen here modeling Gianfranco Ferré’s black diamond studded corset weaved with 900 diamonds, a total of 300 carats. She must surely make a scintillating sight on stage with spotlights catching her diamonds on fire.

“The diamonds, courtesy of sightholder Dalumi, were hand-sewn onto the silk of the fabric one by one. The sparkling shirt… is valued at $1.3 million.”
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Make your own stage appearance with the diamonds you’ll find while browsing through our online selection of diamond jewelry, offering bold bling designs for both men and women.

The fashion gurus have defined a jewelry trend that favors old mine and rose cut diamonds. Pictured here is Cate Blanchett beautifully demonstrating that trend with her Indian pendant necklace featuring more than 100 carats of rose-cut diamonds matched with a pair of 2 carat antique mine cut diamond stud earrings by Fred Leighton.

A diamond that seems to have captured flecks of the sun, the yellow diamond’s warm glimmer makes it a favorite. Whoppi Goldberg has been spotted with a $5 million canary yellow diamond pendant, Julianne Moore sorts a 7.53 carat fancy vivid yellow diamond and super model Christy Turlington has been spotted with a cushion-shaped yellow diamond in a navel ring.

Primarily found in South Africa, the largest yellow diamond that has been found is the third largest diamond ever discovered, weighing 407.48 carats and is determined to be the largest internally flawless diamond.

Browse through our online auction collection of fine diamond necklaces, earrings, bracelets and rings to find your own signature look.

Given that so many celebrities today are in court or on their way to jail, or, as with Miss Hilton, in jail, speculation is that handcuffs as jewelry might become a trend. This handcuff charm with 0.5 carats in diamonds is a good example though it will probably be easy to find functional diamond handcuffs if more rebellious celebs continue to flaunt the law.

If you prefer to have your diamonds in the form of rings, earrings, necklaces and bracelets, Bidz.com has it all available for your bidding pleasure…except the handcuffs.

“A duo of diamonds that once belonged to a famous 19th century French social climber are expected to fetch up to two million dollars (1.5 million euros) each when they go under the hammer next week, auction house Sotheby’s said on Tuesday. The two dazzling yellow stones, weighing 82.48 and 102.54 carats respectively, come from the family of German Count Guido Henckel von Donnersmarck.”
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The Sierra Leone Diamond, discovered in 1972, was the third largest diamond ever mined, weighing in at nearly one half pound or 968.8 carats. This splendid beauty has since been cut up into 17 individual diamonds, six of those creating the famed Star of Sierra Leone Broach.

The “Great Mughal” is thought to be the largest diamond ever discovered. Said to have been in the treasury of Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb in 1666, it originally is described as weighing 787 carats. There is no more available history on the stone though it is rumored to have been in the treasury of the Shah of Persia.