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Lesley and the BGD team join me in thanking all of you, our wonderful customers and prospective customers, for the genuine interest and great support that you have given us over the past 2 years. Without you all, we would not be the successful, growing company that we are today. We look forward to continuing to make sure that you purchase only the most beautiful diamonds and most discerning settings and jewelry. Take a look back at some of the amazing pieces of jewelry that we have had the privilege to create for you this past year!!!

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Brian Gavin

P.S. There is also a sneak peak of the 3D videos that we are working on with our Signature background

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We are proud to announce that just 9 months after the launch of our new diamond and jewelry website, Brian Gavin Diamonds has joined the ranks of the Houston's Most Recognized Jewelers.

At the end of August, as seen below, Brian Gavin Diamonds ranked #12 on the Houston Business Journal's list of Largest Houston-Area Jewelers.

Thank you to all of our loyal customers, fans and friends for making this possible!!!

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Over the past several months I have been dreaming up what I was going to create for Lesley for her birthday which was at the end of July. I knew that she loved both the Serendipity and Elaine’s Reverie, and had hinted more than once how much she would love a right hand ring based on that design in rose gold and platinum.  We used  Brian Gavin Signature melee and marquise cut diamonds, all F/G VS and each one was carefully hand bezeled. Because of the different melting points of rose gold and platinum the joining process was more complicated than we originally imagined it would be but I am sure that you will agree that it was a major success. Needless to say, Lesley is thrilled!! It was definitely one of our professional highlights for this year, and we are admittedly proud of the way it turned out in the end. I am going to let the pictures below do the talking!! Brian.

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Pictured are Kim Schwager, seated, with Daniel Gavin, Mark Ward and Victor R. Cintron.

A group of four MBA students from the University of Houston C. T. Bauer College of Business has a simple mission: show how much business they can generate with just $200.

The limit was set out in Google’s Online Marketing Challenge. The rules of that global contest define a semester-long class for the four, and offer a sign of the times in marketing…

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I am very pleased to announce that Denise Newberg and Jamie Carson have recently joined our sales team. Both Denise and Jamie trained under us and worked with us previously and many of our customers and readers may remember them. With the launch of our website in January our inquiries have soared and I would personally like to thank everyone for the incredible support that has been shown. With the addition of these top diamond sales professionals we are even better equipped to make sure that every single customer is given the personalized experience that we are so well known for.

Brian

Denise Newberg and Jamie Carson

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With the tremendous popularity of the Novela Engagement Ring over the past few months, I knew it was only a matter of time before we would start getting orders for the Novela matching band. We have created the matching band and feature it here today. Just like the Novela it only comes in platinum and features 26 x .02 ct F/G VS Brian Gavin Signature melee 80% around the shank. Please note that the low profile of the band lends itself to working well with several other styles in our catalog too.

To view details for this product please click here

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We are excited to announce that after months of programming, creating, photographing, writing and discussing, our website is now LIVE!!! It is a work in progress but we felt that we were ready enough to launch and will add to it as we go along.

We would like to thank so many of our dear customers and friends who have been instrumental in helping us to get to this point, and we look forward to continuing and strengthening our relationships as we move forward into this new and exciting phase of Brian Gavin Diamonds.

Please visit our website at www.briangavindiamonds.com.

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A few months ago we received an e-mail from a longtime customer whose mother had dropped her ring and the diamond was chipped. She asked us if I could take a look at it and see if I could salvage it for her. On receiving it, I did my usual workup on the diamond and provided our customer with my predictions for the outcome. The diamond started off weighing 2.223 ct and was poorly cut. After the recut process, I predicted that the diamond would weigh approximately 2.028 ct – a 10% weight loss, but that I would retain the measurement of the diameter or “footprint” as much as possible.

We ended up with the diamond weighing 2.01 ct. In order to retain the weight above 2 carats I did not concentrate on ending up with a hearts and arrows diamond. As you can see our customer ended up with a beautiful ideal cut diamond which was clearly a better performer. The images below tell the whole story (please click on images twice for full view).

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