November 22, 2024

1/2 ounce 99.99 Kirkland Lake Covid-19 vaccination gold button. Spot+5%. 912-00644

If you’re into gold bullion and like a good tale, this is the perfect item for you. The story goes when Covid-19 threatened to close down the Kirkland Lake gold operations, management rewarded employees with one of these 1/2 ounce 99.99 gold buttons when they showed proof of Covid-19 vaccination. Not a bad deal for the employees, especially now that gold is trading over $3,700.00 CAD, up from $2,500.00 per ounce in mid 2020. We really know nothing else about this usual gold button. We’ve only ever had one other like it pass through our store. A quick Google search found another example described as vaccination gold too, so there must by something to the story. Kirkland Lake gold merged with Agnico Eagle Mines mines in February 2022 making this just a little more collectible. Its compact dimensions of around 15.5mm x 5.3mm make it feel especially heavy. We weighed it on our scale at 15.592 grams, just over 1 troy ounce (0.50129oz.). We didn’t do a bunch of research into why it has been stamped ABC on the top, but would love to know more about it or what it means. It comes in a Kirkland Lake Gold black drawstring pouch. Being gold bullion of 99.99% purity, it is not subject to any form of sales tax. We are offering it for sale for only 5% over the gold content. For the current spot price of gold in U.S. or Canadian dollars click on Bullionvault.com. Stock #912-00644.

November 21, 2024

0.87ct. SI1-FG excellent cut (36=0.38ct. tw. VS-SI-GH) 4.2gr. sz. 5 3/4 custom halo. $3,480.00 CAD. 101-00591

You won’t hear us very often on the radio and you’ll definitely never see us on TV, we like to let our products speak for themselves when it comes to soft marketing. This custom made halo design ring is a great example of our specialty. We love estate, vintage, antique jewellery and the outstanding value it offers our customers. This time of year you’re going to be bombarded with offers and claims of huge discounts and the best pricing. We’d rather just rather softly showcase high quality pre-owned jewellery at truly unbeatable values. For the same (or less) than others are offering synthetic laboratory-grown diamonds, we can offer you an outstanding quality natural diamond in a beautiful hand made contemporary setting. The centrepiece of this modern creation is a bezel set round brilliant cut natural diamond of SI1 clarity, FG colour, with an excellent cut. When viewed through polarized light, a round brilliant cut diamond with an outstanding cut will displays “Hearts & Arrows” through the table and pavilion. We discovered taking a photo of the 8 arrows in a mounted stone is a very difficult procedure. After many attempts we did a reasonable job capturing the arrows in this image. The hearts on the bottom side of an excellent cut diamond can’t be viewed with a mounted stone. We love the antique look of the discreet milgrain bezel setting, it’s a refreshing twist on the popular halos we usually see set with 4 claws. The centre diamond is surrounded by a cushion shaped frame containing tightly set brilliant cut diamonds of VS-SI-GH quality. The thin 2.2mm wide shank is also decorated with high quality small diamonds. The additional stones bring the total diamond weight to an estimated 1.25 carats. Measuring a size 5, this ring will comfortably fit a lady with a lightly smaller hand. It can be adjusted up or down a size or two by one of our onsite goldsmiths in just a few days. We are very confident our estate price is below the wholesale cost to replace this custom made ring. It comes with a 2017 Gem Scan Laboratories Certificate of Evaluation. The document suggests a replacement value of $12,500.00. We feel this is a rather optimistic opinion, something more like $5,800.00 would be competitive and appropriate for insurance replacement value with new. As a like new estate item, we have it priced at only $3,480.00 CAD. Stock #101-00591.

November 20, 2024

Rare Omega Seamaster “AutoQuartz” 36.5mm 2514.50.00. $2,600.00 CAD. 510-00101

Toward the end of the last century Omega experimented with a hybrid quartz technology. The system mirrored the weight rotor like a traditional automatic watch, but instead of winding a spring, it turned a generator that charged a capacitor. The capacitor powered a fully jewelled high quality quartz movement for 100 hours without additional motion. The electronic circuit can detect when power is low and signals the wearer with a second hand that only impulses every four seconds. Omega only offered this technology for several years before abandoning it in favor of fully mechanical automatics and more traditional battery operated quartz movements. They really gave it a go with this model adding a one direction timer bezel, threaded crown/case back, date magnifier (à la Rolex style), applied luminous hour markers with Arabic 6,9,12, a wave patterned dial with concentric ring minute hour track and glossy minute track. The sliding locking buckle even features the luxury touch of a solid 18 karat gold Omega logo insert. The basic watch looks a bit like a Rolex Explorer but offering far more utility. It even came with a water resistance rating of 200 meters, twice that of a Rolex Explorer. This watch was sold new right hear at Bill Le Boeuf Jewellers in early 2002 when we were authorized agents for Omega watches. It comes with the fully endorsed warranty card and a photocopy of the original bill of sale. The watch just returned from the Omega service facility in Toronto for a full service/restoration. They serviced the movement, replaced the crown and waterproof tube, changed various seals/gaskets, installed a new circuit with updated capacitor, microgenerator, reverser wheel, date driving wheel, new rotor, and finally every bracelet pin and bushing were changed. This full restoration was reasonably priced at $603.99 including shipping and tax. With the fresh service it should run trouble free for the next few decades. A two year factory service warranty will be transferred to the next owner. A service box, original instruction booklet, other documents, replaced parts, cards, and more are included with purchase. This 1 owner watch now looks like new and operates like new. It is estate priced at $2,600.00 CAD. Stock #510-00101.

SOLD

November 19, 2024

EFFY 2.00ct. tw. SI-I-KL diamond ring, 14kt., 9 grams, size 7 1/2. $2,000.00 CAD. 131-00247

Simple but effective design by jewellery design house EFFY. This ring makes a big statement with its digit spanning 14.8mm width. The 9 rows of round brilliant cut diamonds cover 180 degrees of the resulting in full sparkle from any viewing direction. The 140 diamonds average SI1 to I1 clarity and K through fancy light brown colour and are estimated to weight 2.00 carats in total weight. They are secured by shared prong beads showing little to no wear. The 14 karat white gold setting could stand with a fresh coating of white rhodium to make it perfect, but we’re waiting to see if the new owner needs the size adjusted before we do that. The underside of the ring features a small hole for every one of the 140 diamonds, this allows for easy cleaning of the stones. The ring currently measures a size 7 and can be adjusted made a size or two. The ring weighs in at a substantial 9 grams. Not including the $600.00 of just recyclable gold content, the ring costs only $10.00 per diamond. That’s great value, the kind only our estate jewellery can offer. This ring is estate priced at $2,000.00 CAD. Stock #131-00247.

November 18, 2024

David Yurman diamond ring 0.33ct. tw. VS-GH, 12.8gr. 18kt. size 6. $2,500.00 CAD. 131-00244

Name brand jewellery definitely costs more than generic but usually the higher price gives you some extra value. Better quality components are easy to identify and assess but the value the brand brings the the equation is more difficult to determine. David Yurman is one of the most followed American designers, producing beautiful jewellery items in silver and 18 karat gold. The Yurman look is often identified by his use of twisted wire/cable elements in the styles. Our latest estate piece is this heavy 18 karat yellow gold dinner/pinky ring. This is a substantial ring measuring 9.9mm wide and weighing 12.8 grams. The rich 18 karat gold glows in a hue that only a premium alloy can offer. The domed surface is bead set with 33 round brilliant cut diamonds of minimum VS-GH quality. The ring measures just over a size 6 and can be adjusted up or down if required. The heavyweight design feels great on the finger and is reluctant to spin because the solid shank is wide all the way to the bottom where it is still 4.8mm. The ring is in excellent condition, only showing some wear on the rhodium plated claws securing the diamonds. This can easily be touched up if you’d like it to look new. This retired ring is no longer shown on the David Yurman website, but there are dozens more diamond rings shown. Looking at the size, gold weight, and diamond content, we feel this ring would sell for at least $5,000.00 if it was still in production. We have it estate priced at $2,500.00 CAD. Stock #131-00244.