Posted on November 30 2025
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The Intelligent Investor Edit:
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Well, our maven Magpies, you’ve had the “Stocking Filler Edit” and now we are onto the scintillating sybarite sequel with rocks that will be the ‘fête accompli’ this Christmas! As ever Baroque Rocks is here to restore buoyant, glittering spirits and especially so in the wake of the ‘smorgasbord of misery’ that is the “Magic Money Tree” Budget —served with the sophistry of a gold toned gewgaw! This fiscal farce, obligingly leaked by flibbertigibbets to the OBR*, was published ahead of Parliament and promptly rewarded with yet another downgrade to already bleak growth forecasts!!! Which for Goldbugs, such portents point in one shimmering direction: GOLD Glorious GOLD – the natural refuge for those ‘truffling’ about with a keen snout for value!! So, our dear Magpies, do go forth feather your nests whilst enriching your coffers with bountiful bejewelled bijoux! Thus, without further ado, we the intelligent investors shall showcase our brilliance, scintillation and fire with our coruscating Christmas Edit! Ta dah!
 First up and trust Baroque Rocks to fuel an unapologetic Diamond addiction. The Diamond Waterfall Circular Gold Sliding Necklace is nature’s own festive mic drop—rings of molten Gold cascading into a waterfall of brilliant Diamonds. Talismanic too: the circle protects, whilst the Diamonds herald love and prosperity. Carpe Diamantes darlings!! Pair it with the classic Chopard Happy Diamond Heart Ring!! Quick historical interlude: ‘back on ‘76’, Chopard rewrote the rules when designer Ronald Kurowski - mesmerised by sunlight dancing through a waterfall, imagined Diamonds that could dance too—free-floating, liberated and alive!!! And thus, Happy Diamonds were duly born. Fast forward to our vintage Happy Diamonds Ring (original box included) where the solitaire Diamond pirouettes inside a Diamond-studded heart we are very much aiding and abetting the notion of a Chopard Christmas just make it a vintage Baroque Rocks one!!  
Next up we have the Brutalist Diamond and Ruby Column Cocktail Ring 1974! A riff on Brutalist elegance where sharp texture melds with bold geometry!! Jagged organic 18K Gold is sculptured into a dramatic vertical column – one line ignited by a trio of Rubies, the other by the clean icy brilliance of Diamonds!!! Alluringly abstract, channelling the raw unfiltered energy of mid-century modernism! Retro statement sophistication! What a cracker of a corundum!
Cantering on with our Carnival of Colour Gemset Cocktail Ring c.1960s. Rising in sculptural tiers of 18K Gold, this vibrant stack is crowned with a constellation of colourful gemstones dazzling with Emeralds, Sapphires, Rubies, Diamonds and a single Seed Pearl sparkling at its summit!! Playful yet undeniably opulent, it’s literally a miniature treasure trove with a gloriously irreverent attitude! Mid-century marvellousness and a Christmas kaleidoscope of colour – gem set go!
If the Tutti Fruits Carnival of Colour feels a touch too much, then slip into the cool sophistication of our Diamond and Turquoise Cocktail Ring c.1960s. A burst of coruscating colour and craft all in one glorious Cocktail Ring!! Capturing the exuberant spirit of mid-century glamour where a dozen cabochon cut Turquoises radiate from a sculptural fluted gold surround, forming a halo of celestial blue around a brilliant cut Diamond!! A Sixties siren of modernism – undeniably bold, unmistakably statement! Talk about a Christmas of ‘Turks’ and darlings, definitely flaunt it in Caicos!
 But if you’re craving a Modernist marvel - one that nods to the creative magnificence of Alan Gard, John Donald, and even Charles de Temple in the Seventies—this Peridot & White Sapphire Modernist Cocktail Ring is one insanely sensational statement!! Upcycled and “carat’ed-up” Cocktail, flashing 3 carats of neon midori-green Peridot and a half-carat of White Sapphire sensation. Flaunt, flaunt, flaunt! Midori magic under the mistletoe that’s just begging to be unwrapped!  And finally, a ‘Six Seven’!! But in Baroque Rocks parlance we mean Sixties & Seventies decades that deliver the ultimate holiday high glamour. The Diamond & Guilloché Dome Ring sparkles like a chic Italian bauble, while the Ruby & Diamond Knot Ring glows with all the warmth, passion and unity of the season. A duo of decadent delight—one iced in cool enamel brilliance, the other wrapped in Ruby-rich radiance. Christmas cocktail rings just slip them on, darlings—’tis the season to shimmer!!
As ever Baroque Rocks is here to literally “gift” up your spirits with niche ideas of wanton indulgence for Christmas, we literally are the recycling Rebel without the Claus and totally ‘sleighing’ it with splendiferous, sparkling, sybaritism!!!! Merry Christmas one and all! Stay sparkling! |