The Abicana store
Mail: aquila_grande@yahoo.no
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The Abicana store
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Mail: aquila_grande@yahoo.no
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Jewelry, watches and fashion
Welcome to this online presentation quality jewelry, watches and apparel for an affordable prize. Pleace click on the banners to read more or to make a purchase.
TitaniumKey
- jewelry made of robust materials - Jewelry made of extra rough and though noble metals, suited for people of action, like tungsten, zirconium, carbon fiber, titanium, wolfram, stailess steel or ceramic materials containing these elements like tungsten carbide. You also find jewelry of these materials combined or combined with yellow gold, silver or diamonds.
Jewelry and watches - JewelBasket.com - wedding rings, engagement rings, masonic rings, titanium rings, earrings, pendants, necklaces & bracelets, dress rings, pearls, opals, gifts for special occasions, religious jewelry, men's, hot diamonds , silver.
This shop does not only sell jewelry, you also find a huge collection of quality watches. You find of cource watches made of noble metals and gems, but also watches of though materials to be used in harsh environments, like diver watches.
Examples of brands and types present are: Charles-Hubert Paris Watches, Croton Watches, Bulova Watches, Euro Geneve Gold and silver Watches, Black Hills Gold Watches, Freeze Diamond Watches, Masonic Watches, MLB Watches, NFL Football Watches, Gold Watch Bands, Pocket Watches.
Bidz jewelry auctions - Bid on all types of jewelry and vauable apparel from quality producents and get it for a very affordable prize.
A great diamond shop
- This shop contains a huge collection of diamond jewelry of all shapes and fit for all occations. The shop also has a lot of jewelry with other types of gemstones.
MyJewelryBox.com
- a great warehouse of colored stone jewelry and of watches - Here you can find a lot of pieces with stones like emeralds, ametysts, rubies, saphires, citrines, agats, opals, charneols, malachite, lapis lazuli and more. There are of cource also diamond jewelry and pieces where colored stones are surrounded by diamnonds. Please click at this product link to see more about this particular adorn or to browse the whole stock.
Body jewelry
- Bioplast, Belly Button Navel Rings, Barbell - Tongue Rings, Body Jewelry, Licensed Body Jewelry, Belly Chains, Rings / Circular / BCR's, Nose Rings. Eyebrow Rings, Labret, Nipple Rings, Retainers, 14 kt Gold Body Jewelry, Body Jewelry Parts, Blinking Body Jewelry, 316L Basic Collection, Plugs, Titanium Body Jewelry, Temporary Tattoos, Piercing Tools - Aftercare, Cell Phone Charms, Holiday Body Jewelry, Toe Rings.
DiscountWatchStore.come
- quality watches for reduced prizes - In this store you can find many quality watch brands for a good prize, like: Citizen watches (Citizen Eco Drive watches and more), Seiko watches (Seiko kinetic watches, Seiko automatic watches, and more), Movado watches, Luminox watches (Luminox Navy SEAL watches and more), and Invicta watches.Please go through this link to get into the shop. You will be shown the deal of the day and you can go from there to all other parts of the shop.
Watches - PrincetonWatches.com - Many brands are present like: Citizen , Casio , Chase-Durer , Hamilton , Movado , Oakley , Pulsar, Seiko , Suunto.
ShopGoldyn.com
- high class fashion and jewelry - This is primarily a shop for artistc fashion desgined by famous fashion artists, but it has also a lot of fine jewelry, especially jewelry that matches well against high class fashion clothes.
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edallions and bars of silver and gold - In this shop you can buy decorative coins and square bars made of 999 silver or 24 karat gold with beautiful figurative decorations on the surfaces. Besides having a great beauty, these are fine investment objects likely to keep or increase in value.
Examples of the many watches jewelry pieces available
Fashion and apparel of the latest trends
CoutureCandy - apparel from famous fashion designers
- A collection of apparel from the hottest designers worldwide, as for example: Joe’s Jeans, Paper Denim & Cloth, J Brand, Raw 7, Susana Monaco, Da-Nang, Lotta Stensson, Stitch’s and Kasil Jeans. You find the latest fashion from the producents, but also designer interviews, celebrity fashion trends, style tips, denim fit guides, community chat and advices from personal stylists. Please click at the banner to learn more:
Be your own fashion artist and then purchase your creations
If you live in America, please click at this banner.
If your home is in UK, please click here.
Metal Mulisha motocross style clothes
- Clothes and apparel for motocross activities or inspired by the Metal Mulisha motocross comunity.
T-shirts and apparel that make people recognize you
- Here you find apparel with striking colors, symbols and messages that makes you the mid-points of the audience.
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british fashion brands - Please click on the brand banners to see the products.
Lugz
.com - trendy quality footwear for sport, work and dayly life - In this shop you can buy footwear of the brands Lugs designed to fit each customer's individual lifestyle, the brand Sneaux targeted at the skateboarding and extreme sport performing community and the brand British Knights bringing back a highly successful line of trendsetting sportfolks' footwear from the late 80ies.|
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Shoebuy.com -
Shoes of all types and all styles for good prizes
For make-up, skin-care and anti-aging, please click here
Useful information
efititions about noble metalsProperties and definitions about gemstones - down on this page
What is a gemstone - properties of gemstones
A gemstone can be a mineral, that is a crystaline piece where the whole piece have the same basic chemical composition in its crystal lattice. It can also also be a rock art. A rock art contains crystals of different types of lattice composition. In some rare instances also amorphous or glassy substances are used as gemstones. An example is the glassy substanses Opal and Obsidian, and the amorphous substance Ember.
The tern "gemstone" does not have any clear definition. Neither has the term "jewel" used about precious gemstone any clear definition. Here are listed some properties that can make a stone to a gemstone.
Colour beauty:
A pleasant colour is a requirement for a
gemstone. A clean clearness as for example in a perfect rock crystal or a clean
blackness as for example in a black onyx is also special instances of colour
beauty. Either the stone must have a uniform clean colour, or nice shadings of
different colours. The colour can be a property of the stone material. It can
originate from dissolved chemicals or atoms in the crystal lattice. It can
originate from refraction of light within the crystal, as for example in a clear
diamant. It can also have its origine in microscopic inclusion of other minerals
in a crystal.
Colour play or dispersion: The colour of a stone should not be dead or inert. It should sift somewhat and show to be alive according to the type and strength of light falling upon the stone, and according to the angle of the light. Colour play has its oriogin in light refraction in the whole stone or in layers within the stone. Flourescence may also contribute to a beautiful colour play, but can also sometimes destroy the beauty of a stone. Fluorence is the ability to send back light of another colour than that sent into the stone. Colour play depend very much upon the way a gemstone is cut. For example is a diamond cut to maximize the colour play.
Light play or Brilliance: This is internal or external reflexes from a stone that changes all the time as the angle of light upon the stone or the angle of seeing the stone from are changed. The brilliance can look like thousands of sparcles emanating form the stone all the time. Light play depend very much upon the way a gemstone is cut. For example is a diamond cut to maximize the brilliance.
Purity: A gemstone must be free from ugly inclusions or spots of foreign elements that do not add to the beauty of the stone. It must also be free from dissolved substances that shades for the colour or colour play. An area with many small inclusions of impurities in a stone is often called a cloud. However, inclusions or spots can somentimes also increase the beauty of the stone, for example if the inclusions have fine colours, add colour play or reflect light to increase the brilliance.
Claearness: Clearness is the degree with which a stone is distorting an image seen through the stone. Clearness can be a quality that makes a stone into a gemstone. However, if a stone is unclear in such a way that seeing through the stone gives the impression of a nicely coloured or shaded mist, also this can make a stone to a gemstone.
Robustness: In order to be used as a gemstone, the piece must be enough robust against mechanical impacts, chemical ingredients, temperature or other physical infuences. Robustness consist of several sub-properties:
Hardness: Hardness is a measure of the strongest force a stone can withhold without bursting, and is perhaps the most important property that makes a stone robust. Hardness is measured with a logaritmic scale from 0-10. That means in fact that a stone of hardness 7 is 10 times harder than a stone of hardness 6. Diamonds are one of the hardest substances found, with the hardness of 10 on the scale.
Rareness:
A beautyful stone is liker to be regarded as a
gemstone if it is rare. Looking at something rare that gives you another
experience than all the usual things sou see around you, stimulate the
senses and feelings more that looking at any familiar object. However, a stone
need not be extremely rare to give this kind of experience.
Symmetry: The colour play, brilliance, clearity or other properties should usually be uniform througout the stone, or show a symmetry according to an axis or point.
Some other properties
Here are listed some other properties that are used to characterize agemtsones, and especially diamonds.
Crown:
This is the top part of the diamond above the girdle.
Cut:
Cut refers to the arrangement of a diamond's facets. A diamond which is "ideal
cut" captures and reflects back from the interior of the stone the maximum play
of light. This is not the same as the shape of a diamond.
Eye-Clean:
Refers to a diamond that has no inclusions or blemishes visible to the naked eye.
Facet:
A polished surface on a diamond. A round, full-cut diamond usually has 58 facets,
33 on the crown and 25 on the pavilion.
Fire: Rainbow colors resulting from the dispersion of light.
Flawless:
Diamond without external or internal blemishes or inclusions seen under 10X
magnification are calld flawless.
Fluorescence: A diamond will absorbe energy from ultraviolet (UV) light, causing the stone to
glow this energy out egain as visible light in various colors.
Full-Cut:
A diamond with 58 or more facets.
Gemologist:
A person who has been trained and certified in diamonds and colored stones.
Girdle:
This is the circumference of a diamond which is usually held by prongs of a
setting and separates the crown and pavilion. The purpose of the girdle is to
protect the edge of the stone from chipping.
Head: The prongs which hold a diamond in its setting.
Karat:
This is another thing than carat-weight of a diamond. This is the measure of the
purity of gold; 24-karat being pure gold. Jewelry is made from 18K and 14K gold,
and contains other metals for strength.
Laser-Drilled:
Treated with a laser to remove carbon spots.
Light Return:
The light that is returned from the diamond and not leaked through the pavilion
(bottom) of the diamond.
Loupe: A small magnifying glass used to view gemstones.
Off-Make:
An ill-proportioned diamond.
Pavé: A method of setting diamonds very closely together, giving the illusion of one or more larger diamonds.
Pavilion:
The bottom part of the diamond below the girdle. It has an ideal angle of 40.75
degrees. The pavillion acts as a very highly polished and precise mirror that
throws the light back through the other facets.
Point:
One-hundredth of a carat.
Refraction: Refraction refers to the bending and slowing of light passing at an oblique
angle from the medium of one optical density (such as air) into a medium of
greater optical density (such as a diamond). The refraction on passing of the
light from air into the diamond and from the diamond back into the air creates
the fire of a diamond, because the various colors of the white light are
refracted to various degrees and thus separated from each other.
Semi-Mount: A setting which is complete except for the main stone, which will be selected
separately.
Shape: This is not the same as cut,
shape means the geometric for of the stone. Popular shapes include the round
brilliant, marquise, emerald cut, pear and oval.
Single-Cut: A diamond with only 16 or 17 facets.
Sparkle
Table: This is the largest and most important facet in a diamond situated at the top.
Tiffany:
A simple, elegant 2-3 mm ring setting with a head with prongs that holds a
single diamond.
Transparency and opaqueness: A stone that let through all the light that comes onto it, is totally transparant. If no light is let through, the stone is opaque.