In the fifth set Diamond had stretched its lead to 17 when the diagramed deal, Board 69, was played.
The other was Tatiana Golovin, who sat perched high above the court, on a French television set, diamond earrings visible from the stands.
In fact, an interview with this most un-hip-hop of journalists has become a rite of passage for young rappers, as essential as getting a pave set diamond grill.
A Swiss client recently borrowed a laurel garland pave set diamond Georgian tiara for three weeks.
Introduced in the 1930s, it was a broad brand of pavé set diamonds, its baguette diamond "shoulders" supporting a big, bold table-cut gem stone.
They spend hours in the shop, picking over the detritus of squandered Old World prosperity -- ornaments, lockets, buckles, worthless pearls, poorly set diamonds, objects worth less than old pawn tickets -- until finally, they are shown the bowl.
Dior's Christal Tourbillon Rubies, strewn with big red gems and hundreds of invisibly set diamonds, comes in a limited edition of one — though, at $1.3 million, will that really be a problem?
It's also why he opts for combining materials that other high-end designers might never dare to — like setting diamonds in gunmetal in a collection for Sotheby's Diamonds, where Givenchy was creative director from 2008 to 2011.
The ability of Indian cutters to make more and better diamonds available to the American market is only likely to increase as dealers there move into areas previously dominated by countries with higher cost structures -- cutting signature-shaped diamonds, for example, and actually setting diamonds into the final pieces.
If the amount of time required to set a diamond watch is an indication of its artistry, then the new generation of ladies' watches being introduced next month by Chopard, called L'Heure du Diamant, or "The Time for Diamond," deserves recognition.
Sotheby's also auctioned off a pearl and diamond tiara from an "anonymous" aristocratic collection, which is set with diamonds, as well as another tiara, decorated with diamonds and dating from circa 1900.
