Argyle Twilight Collection - This Limited-Edition Collection Is the Argyle Mine’s “Last Dance”
For Scott West and Jordan Fine, two prominent New York–based diamantaires specializing in important colored diamonds, the realization was a difficult pill to swallow.
“At the 2019 Argyle Tender, Scott and I were having a discussion, and I remember saying if we were to look at his inventory, my inventory, and all of the authorized Argyle partners’ inventory and fast-forward two to three years, it’s very possible that we’re going to be entirely wiped out of Argyle pinks and have nothing left,” remembers Fine, president of J. Fine. “And that kind of invoked a sense of fear in us.”
Clockwise, from left: Butterfly earrings in platinum and 18k rose gold with Argyle pink diamonds and white diamonds, $16,500; butterfly pendant in platinum and 18k rose gold with 0.33 ct. t.w. Argyle pink diamonds and 0.64 ct. t.w. white diamonds, $9,000; butterfly ring in platinum and 18k rose gold with 1.51 cts. t.w. Argyle pink diamonds and 0.71 ct. t.w. white diamonds, $22,000; butterfly ring in platinum and 18k rose gold with 0.33 ct. t.w. Argyle pink diamonds and 0.31 ct. t.w. white diamonds, $9,000; all Scott West for L.J. West Diamonds
So not long afterward, each took stock of his pink diamond inventory, most of it accumulated over many decades’ worth of tenders, and came up with the idea to collaborate on a limited-edition tribute to the Argyle mine.
It’s called the Twilight collection.
“Putting together a significant collection of Argyle pinks like this really is a last hurrah,” says West, lead designer for Scott West Jewelry and vice president of its parent company, L.J. West Diamonds. “Even if it’s a huge success and everything sells, we won’t be able to put something like this together again.”
Argyle Imperial Star Violet ring in platinum with 1 ct. fancy deep grayish bluish violet shield-cut diamond center stone and 0.25 ct. t.w. fancy intense Argyle pink diamond with accents of 0.20 ct. Argyle blue/violet diamonds and 0.60 ct. Argyle pink diamonds, price on request; Scott West for L.J. West Diamonds
There simply isn’t enough material. Yet demand for the mine’s famed pink diamonds is at an all-time high.