Jeweler Krishna Choudhary pulls out a box from his safe and then slowly opens the velvet case to reveal a mesmerizing 150-carat sky-blue star sapphire. The stone fits snuggly in the palm of my hand, ...

“It’s a rite of passage for the women, and they start getting tattooed at a very young age,” Rahul says. “By the time they’re married, they’re completely tattooed. They don’t have too many material ...

“This is as major a collection as we’ll ever see at auction,” said Rahul Kadakia, Christie’s international head of jewelry. He was speaking of the 400 pieces the house will auction in New York on June ...