Druckenmiller wants to make it clear: “Just because you’ve bought an engagement ring, doesn’t mean you know how to buy gemstones.” It is solid advice, and a great place to start. Here is what else you need to know if you are in the market for some seriously fancy jewellery.
It is a long leap to go from buying an engagement ring to truly understanding the value of gems. Here is what you need to know.
Jewellery is an intensely personal way to express style, even for men. (Do not try to tempt your tweed-wearing friend with an Apple Watch — he will recoil.) If you have got someone in your life with even the barest shred of personal style, approach the endeavour with eyes wide open and ears curled towards every hint of preferences that floats your way.
The main thing is to know what you do not know. So, I met Fiona Druckenmiller at her Upper East Side shop to seek her best advice for buying gemstones. She has got credibility: As one-half of the multibillion-dollar Druckenmiller fortune, she presides over FD Gallery, a six-storey townhouse full of treasures from the likes of Société Cartier, Van Cleef & Arpels, JAR, Verdura, Hemmerle and Viren Bhagat. Walk through the heavy, double-door portal and you will find yourself amid glittering items worth hundreds of thousands of dollars apiece. Her clients range from Upper East Side doyennes and French financiers to young, Asian entrepreneurs and Italian barons.
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