David's Blog

An 840-pound emerald, a panther, Hurricane Katrina, thieves and ten lawsuits. An old Royal Street jeweler tells the story of the cursed Bahia Emerald, which rode out the storm in New Orleans.

Where the six-rayed star comes from, why star sapphires were the height of fashion in the 1950s, and how to choose a beautiful one.

Rings, pendants, studs or bracelets, silver or gold: how to choose the right VooDooStone piece, and how to keep it beautiful for years.

Purple in daylight, gold by lamplight, green under fluorescent light. Here is the real science behind the magic of VooDooStone.

A young apprentice asks her father why anyone would love such a stubborn stone. His answer comes from Confucius himself.

On a rainy Saturday at the museum, a grandfather tells his bored grandson about the night in 1964 when three young men climbed through a window and stole the Star of India.

A young London jeweler watches a shy nineteen-year-old show the world her sapphire. Thirty years later, with her granddaughter beside her, she watches that same ring come home.

In a quiet house above a Swiss lake, Josephine's daughter hands her son a little sapphire and diamond ring, and tells him the love story behind it.