Rhys-Davies appeared sporadically on UK television in the early 1970s, including his role as the gangster Laughing Spam Fritter opposite Adam Faith in Budgie. Rhys-Davies (right) signing autographs in May 2005 After a stint teaching at a secondary school in Watton, Norfolk, he won a place at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. He was educated at independent Truro School in Cornwall and then at the University of East Anglia, where he was one of the first 105 students admitted and became a co-founder of its drama club. While in Tanganyika, his family lived in places such as Dar es Salaam, Kongwa, Moshi, and Mwanza. Due to his father's work as a colonial police officer, he was raised in Tanganyika (today part of Tanzania) before his family moved to the Welsh town of Ammanford. His mother, Phyllis Jones, was a nurse, while his father, Rhys Davies, was a mechanical engineer and colonial officer. From secret watches, to métier d’arts timepieces, Harry Winston manages to combines exceptional movements to extraordinary gemstones leading to breath-taking collections.John Rhys-Davies was born in Salisbury on, the son of Welsh parents. Genius!īut the jewels that tell time remains an art Harry Winston masters like no-one. Opus 14 is the result of a 4-years development with two visionary watchmaker: Franck Orny and Johnny Girardin who integrated a jukebox within a watchcase. The Opus 14 was released at the end of 2015 with a major event in Baden-Baden. In 2001, Harry Winston has set a foot in watchmaking industry launching the concept of the OPUS where the jeweler would partner up with a famous watchmaker to develop a watch. Setting marquise, round and pear diamonds on a minimal amount of platinum the Winston Cluster aims to capture the light from all directions. Invented in 1940, Harry Winston’s signature design is the Winston Cluster. Using the best-graded diamonds only in D-E of F color set on platinum, the Harry Winston diamonds are part of the best you can find on the market. In regards to collections, as stipulated above, the Harry Winston micropavé setting is famous worldwide as the most desired engagement ring. The Star/Jeweler relationship has always been and will remain a friendly one! However, the house of Harry Winston is part of the few who does not contract celebrities to wear their jewelry. From Gwyneth Paltrow to Halle Berry or Ellen Mirren, the most-coveted actresses have worn the most-coveted pieces of jewelry a woman could ever dream of. Harry Winston installed his reputation in the jewelry and high jewelry world as a jeweler to the stars.
Over the years, Harry Winston acquired some of the most famous gemstones found in the world, including the Jonker (an emerald cut diamonds, D-color with 66 facets weighting 142.90 carats) or the Hope diamond (a 45.52 carat rare blue diamond donated to the Washington Smithsonian Institute in 1958) which was then reset in 2010 after the American people voted for its new setting.
Harry Winston made the stone itself the central design of a piece. He was a stone lover who could walk around with outrageous amount of carats in his bare pocket. When Harry Winston founded his eponymous brand back in 1932, he nor the rest of the United States had excepted him to become the King of Diamonds, the jeweler to the Stars, or the designer of the ultimate engagement ring: the cushion cut diamond with micropavé setting.