by | August 14, 2025

MORE HAPPY NYCWD COUPLES and THEIR REVIEWS

Absolutely magnificent to work with! Honest man and true to his word! My fiancé said the ring Keith made was absolutely perfect. A pleasure working with Keith. Would absolutely recommend
Pishoi Misdary
FIVE STARS
Google
August 11, 2025
Keith was the best to work with! The diamond and ring came out incredible and at an extremely fair price! I would definitely recommend him and buy from him again in the future!
Andrew Lipman
FIVE STARS
Google
8/10/25

Leave a Comment

Filed under Uncategorized

by | August 10, 2025

HAPPY NYCWD COUPLES and THEIR REVIEWS

“Remarkable patience and professionalism“

%Jeweler NYC %NYC Wholesale Diamonds

Written by: Jack Patterson
Monday, July 28, 2025

I wanted to take a moment to share my wonderful experience with Keith. As someone who has very little knowledge about diamonds, I was quite apprehensive about what to look for or even where to get started. Keith’s expertise and insightful guidance made the process incredibly smooth and enjoyable. He took the time to educate me about the various aspects of diamond selection, helping me make an informed decision and creating a beautiful ring for my fiancée.

Keith’s patience and professionalism are truly remarkable. He went above and beyond to address all my questions and concerns, making me feel confident in my choice. No topic was off limits, and his insights were truly helpful in making my decision. I highly recommend Keith for all your diamond/jewelry needs.

Thank you Keith for all of your help, and I look forward to working with you soon!

“Hands Down The Best Jeweler“

Keith is hands down the best jeweler I could have asked for. All my worries and questions were immediately quelled once we sat down and made my engagement ring purchase a dream. Cannot say enough great things!!!
Ian Folan
Five Stars
August 10, 2025

Leave a Comment

Filed under Uncategorized

by | July 31, 2025

70% of lab-grown diamonds are made in coal-reliant grids in China and India

Amid growing consumer confusion and greenwashed claims, these reports offer much-needed clarity. The Laboratory-Grown Diamond Facts Report cuts through misleading sustainability claims, revealing that over 70% of lab-grown diamonds are made in coal-reliant grids in China and India, often using mined materials and large volumes of water, sometimes in water-stressed regions. It also highlights how claims of being ‘carbon-neutral’ are often rooted in carbon offsetting, without reflecting the full life-cycle emissions. Additionally, key pillars of social sustainability like community development, are always missing from the lab-grown diamond narrative. While production costs for lab-grown diamonds have dropped by nearly 90%, their market prices have declined sharply, with 1.5-carat stones losing up to 86% of their value over the past decade.

Speaking about this report, Richa Singh, Managing Director, India and Middle East, Natural Diamond Council, says, “In India, where natural diamonds hold deep cultural and emotional significance, there is a growing need to address rising consumer curiosity and confusion. This report is part of NDC’s ongoing efforts to provide retailers and consumers with clear, validated information they can trust. Laboratory-Grown Diamond Facts Report brings attention to important considerations that should not be overlooked when making a purchase. Honest, fact-based education helps every segment find its space, while also reaffirming the irreplaceable legacy of natural diamonds.”

Key Insights from the Laboratory-Grown Diamond Facts Report:

This report provides critical context on how lab-grown diamonds differ from natural ones—across origin, terminology, sustainability claims, and market trends.

1. How They’re Made: Lab-grown diamonds are created in controlled factory environments over weeks, using two primary methods—HPHT (High Pressure High Temperature) and CVD (Chemical Vapour Deposition). These differ significantly from the natural formation process that occurs over billions of years underground.

2. Clear Terminology Matters: As per ISO 18323 standards, correct terms include laboratory-grown, laboratory-created, or synthetic diamonds. Terms like real, natural, genuine, and precious are reserved exclusively for Earth-mined diamonds.

3. Sustainability Claims Require Full Context: Generalised claims such as ‘carbon-neutral’ or ‘eco-friendly’ often rely on offsets and may not account for the full energy-intensive production process and supply chain impact.

4. Rapidly Declining Prices: The market value of lab-grown diamonds has dropped sharply, falling 86% in a decade. A 1.5-carat lab-grown diamond that cost $10,750 in 2015 is priced at just $1,455 in 2025.

In a world shaped by endless choice, clarity becomes the true differentiator. Natural Diamond Council remains committed to cutting through noise with facts, helping people find meaning in what truly lasts.

Leave a Comment

Filed under Uncategorized

by | June 17, 2025

Inside Antonia Gentry’s Fashion Evolution and Her Most Glam Diamond Moment Yet

%Jeweler NYC %NYC Wholesale Diamonds

When it comes to fashion, Antonia Gentry’s style doesn’t always align with her Ginny & Georgia character, Ginny Miller. “I haven’t been through a Hot Topic phase since 2010,” she laughs. “But even this season, it’s less punky. There were definitely a few outfits that I was like, ‘Oh, I could go home with this and not be mad about it.’”
Gentry opted for a cozy-chic look, featuring an oversized green sweater over a black turtleneck during our sit-down. “You will, 80% of the time, see me in a black turtleneck,” she confirms. “My friends call my style cosmopolitan. I think what they mean is that I look like I could either be coming from a business meeting or going to a nice dinner. I like to be transitional with my fashion choices.”
While her everyday style is closer to the average 20-something, Gentry has also spent some time front row at Paris and New York Fashion Week, wearing the hottest trends and diamond jewelry from high-end designers. “It’s been so fun to explore and be introduced to new brands and stylists and be surrounded by really cool people,” she says. Specifically, working with stylists has helped her expand her sense of style. “Growing up, I hated wearing skirts and dresses,” Gentry explains. “But now I’m totally okay with feeling like a princess or a chic, put-together French girl.”
That princess feeling certainly came into play on set with Only Natural Diamonds, where Antonia Gentry dripped in natural diamond jewels from Ana Khouri, Boucheron, Dior, Reza, and more. “I felt super luxurious,” she says of the experience. “Everyone just used me as their canvas [for the diamonds], and it was super cool to see.” She was most surprised by the creativity of the stylist, Taylor Kim, who used a necklace as an anklet for one of the looks. “I was able to jump around, and it was a fun way to draw the jewelry to an unexpected part of the body.”
“One of my favorite looks was the cone bra outfit,” she recalls. “I feel like the jewelry that we wore just really went well with it. I felt very vintage and retro chic.”
As someone who self-identifies as “forgetful,” Gentry isn’t sure she wants to make the commitment and invest in natural diamonds just yet, but she knows the perfect piece to add to her collection when she’s ready. “Having a nice, little diamond tennis bracelet that I just never take off, ever, would be really cool,” she shares, her face lighting up when she learned tennis jewelry is one of the best places to start your diamond collection. “Oh, cool! It could elevate anything and go with anything.”
Natural diamonds, of course, make the Ginny & Georgia star look brilliant, but the actress does that on her own in the fan-favorite Netflix show. Stepping into season three felt familiar for Gentry, even after getting delayed by the writer’s strike in 2023. “It’s just always so wonderful,” she says of returning to set. “I love my cast and crew, and we were super excited for this season because plot-wise, I think it’s the biggest of the three.”
We pick up right after the events of the season two finale as Ginny’s mom, Georgia (Brianne Howey), is arrested for murder, right after marrying Mayor Paul Randolph (Scott Porter). This season is “so much more intense and crazier than season two,” Gentry says. “I’m excited to see everyone’s reactions.”
Part of what makes the show so beloved is the obvious chemistry between Antonia Gentry and Brianne Howey, who plays her mother, Georgia. “I kind of see her as an older sister figure and, because we are so close in age,” she says, describing her on-screen mom as a “wonderful scene partner.” Despite being an upbeat show, things can get heavy for the characters and the situations they find themselves in. “We both have to put so much emotional energy into these characters, which also helps release the weight of it all because we’re sort of in it together,” Gentry says of her scenes with Howey.
“This season, you really see them come into their own in different ways,” she explains. “The dynamics between the two of them are constantly being flipped upside down.” While Georgia is always looking to protect her kids, she doesn’t always make the best choices. “Sometimes Ginny is the mom figure, sometimes Georgia is the mom figure, and I think this season you really see that happen to an extent where, by the end of it, you don’t know if it’s for better or for worse.”
Ginny is working on herself this season, consistently seeing a therapist and using poetry as an outlet for her emotions, something Gentry has in common with her character. “I’m an English and creative writing major,” she shares. “When I was 16, I had my own poetry book that I used as an outlet, but I never performed it like Ginny does,” she says, clearly proud of how her character has developed over these last few seasons. “The fact that Ginny is out there performing her own written pieces is a statement of how she’s grown and how she can express herself in a healthier way.”
While Ginny tries to find ways to cope with some of the curveballs life has thrown at her, Antonia Gentry has her own methods of finding zen. “I am someone who tends to need my alone time if things start to feel overwhelming,” explains the actress. “Whether I go play piano for a bit or sit and play Sims, literally,” she says with a laugh. “If I’m going through something, my Sim also has to have a worse day. Sometimes I’m logging on, and I’m like, ‘How can I ruin my Sim’s day today?’” Millennials who grew up with a family desktop can certainly relate.
Playing piano and being involved in the arts was a major outlet for Gentry growing up, something she realizes she was lucky to have. “Without that, I wouldn’t be doing what I’m doing right now, and so many kids in school don’t have access to extracurriculars that enrich their lives,” she says. “It’s definitely something that I want to find the right program to be a part of to help bring arts and joy and extracurriculars to a lot of students who don’t have access to it.”
Protecting the humanities is just one responsibility Gentry feels she can help shoulder, along with protecting our planet – an issue that so many young people feel connected to today. She recently did a campaign with Organic Basics to benefit the Rainforest Trust, donating 1% of every order from the Antonia Gentry collection to the organization, which supports the Amazon Rainforest. “It’s a conservation effort to keep the sanctity of and protect the Amazon, its ecosystem, and the wildlife there,” she explains. The initiative is similar to the natural diamond industry’s efforts to protect local wildlife in diamond-producing regions like Canada’s Northwest Territories and Botswana.
As for Ginny’s contribution to the world, Gentry just hopes that her character finds a sense of security in her life. “It would be nice to see her finally have a constant, finally have a touchstone of peace and direction and guidance that she can truly trust and rely on,” she muses. “I want her to be able to not worry about anyone other than herself for a moment.”
It’s clear that Antonia Gentry has a soft spot for Ginny and genuinely cares for her, fictional or not. “I love her relationship with her grandmother, Lynette, this season,” she adds. “Ginny’s parents are also very young and are also figuring things out, so having someone like Lynette in her life is so great. I’m glad that’s a dynamic, and we’re going to see a little bit more of it.”
Many more exciting dynamics come into play in season three of Ginny & Georgia, and you can watch all the juicy drama, sweet scenes, and heart-thumping moments on Netflix on June 3.
Our special thanks to Jane Asher, and our tresured friends at Only Natural diamonds for this incredible article

Leave a Comment

Filed under Uncategorized

by | June 1, 2025

The Edgy Allure of Kite Cut Engagement Rings

%Jeweler NYC %NYC Wholesale Diamonds

The unique kite shaped diamond will make your engagement ring stand out from the crowd.
The kite-shaped diamond is a perfect choice for brides looking for an unusual, fancy-shaped diamond engagement ring. Its elongated silhouette and angular edges offer a bold, modern alternative to traditional cuts. With their rare presence and architectural elegance, kite cut engagement rings are quickly becoming the style to watch—especially among designers who specialize in custom and alternative bridal.
Ahead, discover what makes this striking shape so special and where to shop the most beautiful kite cut engagement rings.
What Is a Kite Shaped Diamond?
As their name suggests, these diamonds look like a traditional kite, flying high in the sky. They usually have four straight edges: two short and two long. But kite-shaped diamonds can vary dramatically depending on the cut.
Elongated kite-shaped diamonds might look a bit like shield-cut diamonds, while others look exactly like a kite we might have flown during childhood. Some are more symmetrical, and others have a more diamond-like silhouette. This geometric diamond cut is relatively flat and can appear larger than its carat weight due to its elongated shape that covers more of the finger, so it’s great for brides looking for a larger appearance but on a budget.
Editor’s Note: While kite-shaped diamonds are rare overall, they tend to be more commonly found in natural diamonds than in lab-grown diamonds. Natural diamonds are often used in bespoke or artisanal designs, where unique fancy cuts like kites are favored. This is especially true for salt-and-pepper diamonds, which are typically natural and feature visible inclusions that add character and contrast—making them an ideal match for the geometric, edgy look of a kite cut engagement ring. Lab-grown diamonds, by contrast, are usually cut into more conventional shapes like round or oval, as they are mass-produced.
Why Are Kite Shaped Diamonds Unique?
Rachel Boston, a London-based jewelry designer, loves working with this unique shape. “The appeal of kite diamonds is two-fold for me. I like that they’re quite an uncommon and unique shape. It’s always fun and stimulating to work on designs that already have the point of difference that a truly unusual diamond shape brings to the table,” she tells Only Natural Diamonds.
“The second is that they are actually quite versatile. They have a graphic quality that lends itself really well for use as side stones, as well as being an original choice for something more classic like a solitaire or a flush-set signet,” says Boston. “Its elongated shape also means it’s a great contender for more graphic band styles, like double or asymmetrical bands. It’s a shape that works really effortlessly in a variety of designs.”
Where to Buy a Kite Cut Engagement Ring
Since kite-shaped diamonds are uncommon, you might not find the piece you are looking for in a jewelry store. However, many jewelry designers create bespoke engagement rings and can source kite-shaped diamonds for you. So, if you love a particular designer’s style but don’t see kites in their repertoire, don’t hesitate to reach out to see if they can create the bespoke kite cut engagement ring of your dreams.
Our special thanks to Only Natural Diamonds and Kristen Shirley for this fascinating article
For a complimentary consulataion on a Natural Kite Shape Diamond Engagement Ring contact us at KS@NYCWD.com

Leave a Comment

Filed under Uncategorized

by | May 9, 2025

ALERT: NATURAL DIAMOND PRICES STABILIZE, AND BEGIN TO RISE

INSIDER UPDATE: Larger Fancy Shape Diamonds above Two Carats in size stable to rising in price. High quality, larger non rounds hard to find. Solid U.S. interest in Elongated Oval Cuts in better qualities. Elongated Emerald Cuts, Radiants and Pears between 2.50 and 2.99 carats now trading at significant premiums.

Leave a Comment

Filed under Uncategorized