Weekly Roundup: $190,000 Cartier Diamond Necklace
My fiancee and I were sightseeing in Taipei, Taiwan this week and we walked into a Cartier store at Taipei 101, the tallest building in Taipei. As we walked around, I saw a diamond necklace (picture is not of the necklace, it was just a string of enormous diamonds) that looked like it would cost about a million dollars. My mom, who was with us, asked them how much it was and the salesperson asked if we would like to try it on. That’s when my fiancee, nervously, put on a 17.5 carat diamond necklace worth approximately $190,000 USD. For about ten minutes, she wore a house around her neck and as amazing as it looked, it was pretty freaking ridiculous. It’s one thing for you to see it on the neck of a movie star or sitting in a glass case, where it’s separated from you, and it’s another to actually wear (or have your fiancee wear) something like that. Keeping up with the Joneses is much harder at that level huh? 
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I’m not sure if I would want my fiancee to wear it
Good luck!
Nice. A piece jewelry worth more than my condo.
I like looking at fancy jewelry that I cannot/can barely afford. There is no point of buying it - even if I really wanted to spend a large part of my savings on any one thing:
1) unless you are invited to fancy parties, there is no place to wear such a necklace. OK, you can wear it to maybe opera or Broadway, but most people there don’t know you and don’t care what you wear
2) unless you are a movie star or super rich none of your friends is going to believe you it is real so they’ll think you are wearing cubic zirconia.
3) you’d be afraid to be seen an it. You’ll need to buy insurance for it, and then you’ll probably have to keep it in a safe deposit box. Spending a lot of money to make one’s safe deposit box look pretty doesn’t seem like fun.
But… After I look at more expensive things that I either cannot afford or that cost more than I want to spend, I loose interest in buying cheaper things - they just don’t look the same. So I end up not buying anything at all which results in not spending any money at all. For example, for the moment I would like to have long dangling diamond earrings, but I don’t want to spend more than $500 on them. The ones I like cost a few thousand, but I don’t feel like spending that much. The ones I could buy on eBay for $500-600 seem too short or too small. So I don’t buy anything at all and save $500.
Very nice. It’s fun to dream, but the only way I’d buy that for my wife is if I was rich enough to find $100k between my sofa cushions!
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