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  • Custom Vintage Rolex Date Just with a red dial and an original stainless steel band.
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    1960's custom vintage Rolex DateJust in Stainless Steel from the 1960's. Offered with a genuine and original Rolex perpetual automatic movement in mint condition.  Original case with a new custom dial in "Fire Engine" red.
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  • Custom Vintage Rolex Date Just with a Red Dial with Diamonds and a custom Red Strap
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    1960's custom vintage Rolex DateJust in Stainless Steel from the 1960's. Offered with a genuine and original Rolex perpetual automatic movement in mint condition.  Original case with a new custom strap and dial with diamonds in "Fire Engine" Red.
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  • Custom Vintage Rolex Date Just with a teal dial and a custom teal strap
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    1960's custom vintage Rolex DateJust in Stainless Steel from the 1960's. Offered with a genuine and original Rolex perpetual automatic movement in mint condition.  Original case with a new custom strap and dial in "Mint Chip" teal.
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  • Custom Vintage Rolex Date with a custom British Racing Green dial and a custom green strap
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    1960's custom vintage Rolex Date in Stainless Steel from the 1960's. Offered with a genuine and original Rolex perpetual automatic movement in mint condition.  Original case with a custom British Racing Green dial and sweep second hand with diamond markers.
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  • Custom Vintage Rolex Date with a custom Midnight Blue dial and an original stainless steel band
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    1960's custom vintage Rolex Date in Stainless Steel from the 1960's. Offered with a genuine and original Rolex perpetual automatic movement in mint condition.  Original case with a custom midnight blue dial and sweep second hand and date with an original stainless steel adjustable band.
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  • Custom Vintage Rolex Date with a custom Tangerine dial and an original stainless steel band.
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    1960's custom vintage Rolex Date in Stainless Steel from the 1960's. Offered with a genuine and original Rolex perpetual automatic movement in mint condition.  Original case with a custom tangerine dial, date and sweep second hand.
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  • Custom Vintage Rolex Date with original Lime Green dial and an original stainless steel band.
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    1960's custom vintage Rolex Date in Stainless Steel from the 1960's. Offered with a genuine and original Rolex perpetual automatic movement in mint condition.  Original case with a custom Lime Green dial, date and sweep second hand.
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  • Custom Vintage Rolex DateJust with a custom Battleship Grey dial and an original stainless steel band
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    1960's custom vintage Rolex DateJust in Stainless Steel from the 1960's. Offered with a genuine and original Rolex perpetual automatic movement in mint condition.  Original case with a custom "Battleship Grey" dial and sweep second hand and date with a hand made leather strap.
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  • Custom Vintage Rolex DateJust with a custom Steel Grey dial and an original stainless steel band
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    1960's custom vintage Rolex DateJust in Stainless Steel from the 1960's. Offered with a genuine and original Rolex perpetual automatic movement in mint condition.  Original case with a custom "Steel Grey" dial and sweep second hand and date with a hand made leather strap.
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  • art Deco White Golden Diamond ring
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    Throughout the 1930's Laykin et Cie produced a variety of ring designs in platinum and diamond which relied on structural and architectural influences which expressed the minimalist movement, the Art Modern and Deco ethos and other emerging and experimental design themes which were having an impact on everything from product and graphic design to fashion and the fine arts.

    This platinum and diamond ladies ring is bold in it's expression and combines both the rigid structural massifs surrounding the channel set hand-cut diamond baguettes with the slight bow flourishes on it's sides and shoulders set in pave diamonds. Not for the dainty. This ring strikes hard and is raised in world of black and white film; top hats and Mies van der Rohe.

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  • Laykin Vintage Bangle Watch 1937
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    Vintage Laykin et Cie diamond bangle watch circa 1937. Produced in the Los Angeles Laykin atelier this lovely original was among dozens of creative bangle designs produced by the firm during the 1930's and 1940's. The vision for these bangle watches was "dramatic timing". The result was treasured mechanical timepieces that provided stunning accents to the tailored outfits of the time.
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  • vintage Aquamarine Pendant
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    A graceful Edwardian necklace wrought of platinum, diamonds and aquamarine in a fitted box and produced by William James Lewis Abbot FGS FRAJ of St. Leonards-on-Sea, England. This one-of-a-kind necklace is in it's own fitted leather, silk and felt box and features as it's center piece a beautiful natural aquamarine in faceted pear shape which is of perfect natural color.  Mr. Lewis was a jeweler and a geologist in the late 1800's and early 1900's.  By the time of his death he was broke and without resources, but during his younger years he allowed his fine work as a jeweler to finance his work in archeology which led him to touch scandal in what was known as the "Piltdown Inquest" which centered on the subject of early man on the British Isles. Lewis' eye however for fine stones was well recognized, he maintained an important world class collection which after his death was divided between prominent collectors and museums where many samples remain to this day. He is credited with coining the term "Gemmology"

     

    William James Lewis Abbott

    From NATURE, The International Journal of Science (August 26th 1933)

    THE death is reported of William James Lewis Abbott, the well-known archologist, at the age of eighty years, at St. Leonards-on-Sea. He was by calling a jeweller, and early in his career took up the scientific study of gem-stones, a subject on which he instituted classes and became a lecturer at the Polytechnic. Extending his studies to geology, his interests centred particularly on the more recent deposits of the south coast of England. It was inevitable at that time that he should be attracted to the investigation of the earliest evidence of man's handiwork, and the associated animal remains, in these deposits. As one of the pioneers in the study of man's first efforts in the shaping of stone implements, Abbott's views were those of a practical man and based upon his experience and study of the character of the material in which he himself had worked. He maintained that a scientific knowledge of the nature of stone was an essential preliminary to argument based upon technical considerations of form. Throughout his life a lover of a specialised terminology, he coined for this study the name litho-clasiology, as he had christened his earlier researches ‘gemmology’.

     

     

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