Archive for July 2013

Well, it would be quite remiss of us at the Diamond Ring Company not to also extend many congratulations to the Royal Couple and their new bundle of joy, whose face we have yet to see fully, although the initial ones really do show him to be just a normal small scrunched up sweet little…

Mobile phone technology has come on in leaps and bounds since the mid-1990s when having your own handset went mainstream. Nowadays, almost everyone has a smartphone, enabling them to talk, message and browse the internet on the go. Of course, your smartphone doesn’t just have to be a functional device. Since phone fascias first arrived…

So you’ve bagged yourself a hot date, you’ve sorted out what you’re going to wear (not the Hawaiian shirt or purple flares please), and you’ve even booked a table at that restaurant you’ve been dying to try (but were too scared to dine alone). This is all excellent news, but there’s one thing you’ve forgotten…

Having done the history of Hallmarks in a previous post, let me bring you up to date this week… In the modern world (I refer to Europe largely), the convention that dictates what hallmarking is, came into being in 1973. A core group of European nations signed the Vienna Convention on the Control of Fineness…