Designed with a heavy cluster design of nothing but beautiful turquoise & has a deliberate medley of contrasting colors with turquoise from different mines.. There are 3 types of turquoise used in this.. Nevada Royston, Arizona Sleeping Beauty turquoise & Tibet. The necklace is a nice, statement size & can hardly go without being noticed. Federico is known for his jewelry designs more on the larger size & you will know that this one is on. There are 12 sections of precisely cut oval cabochons & evenly cut bright blue Sleeping Beauty turquoise that surrounds the oval, on both top & bottom. What you are going to do is’push down’ on the cab to open it, not’pull’. WEIGHT: 5.6 Ounces. WEARABLE LENGTH: 20TOTAL. LENGTH: 24(With Cross). OVAL MEASUREMENT: 15-17 mm x 13 mm range. ROUND CUT MEASUREMENT: 5 mm Range(Sleeping Beauty Turquoise). CROSS SIZE: 4″ X 3″. HALLMARK: JF/Sterling (2 XS). If your a fan of Federico’s, then please look through my listings, since I carry a large inventory of jewelry by Federico.. AN EXAMPLE AS TO WHAT DICTATES THE PRICE IN JEWELRY. Turquoise is priced on few thingswhether the turquoise is natural or treated, with natural being more valuable per carat than treated. Then you look at price per carat for what that quality goes for, then how many carats are used. Remember turquoise is like a finger print, with no 2 being exactly the same & with that said, even though you can get turquoise from that same mine, it will be different from the next. What also dictates the price is the amount & cost of the metal, the work & time that went into making the piece & lastly, the designer whose name is on them. To give you close ups, pictures tend to look much more larger & more magnified than in actuality. Also, things you’ll see in photos that look noticeable, are generally not in person. Federico was raised in Oaxaca & it was during his youth that he fell in love with antiquities, after finding a large Pre-Colombian Mixtec Pectoral gold necklace in the back yard of the families house in Tututepec, Mexico. He has been a avid collector of antiquities with the focus on Pre-Colombian, Vintage Taxco & vintage Native American jewelry, as well as collecting native costumes, ever since that find. He is known for creating’head turning’/true’statement’ style designs & is also the’go -to’ designer that many very famous, big star celebrities you’ll find flaunting his jewelry. He is known for playing a major role in bringing to the USA, the gorgeous Dove jewelry that is known to his birthplace of Oaxaca, which is called his “Frida” line. He once sat on the board of the Millicent Rogers Museum in Taos, NM, The Autry in LA & owns a Museum in Oaxaca that hold his collection & bares his name.. You can also see his collections in museums in Mexico City. The item “FEDERICO JIMENEZLarge Turquoise Cluster Cross 925 Necklace24(With Cross)” is in sale since Saturday, May 3, 2014. This item is in the category “Jewelry & Watches\Ethnic, Regional & Tribal\Southwestern”. The seller is “platadesantafejewelry” and is located in Santa Fe, New Mexico. This item can be shipped to United States.
- Signed?: Yes,”JF STERLING”
- Metal Purity: 925
- Main Stone: Natural “Sampler” Variation Turquoise
- Metal: Sterling Silver
- Brand: Federico Jimenez
- Jewelry Type: Necklaces