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    SEEKING BEAUTY

    Mar 03, 2019 4 minutes
    WORDS JO BATES
    PHOTOGRAPHY
    MEEK ZUIDERWYK

    Lauren Boustridge’s academic and career credentials are as multi-faceted and engaging as a brilliant-cut diamond. The fine jewels and watches specialist at Webb’s auction house in Auckland studied media, theatre and film with the idea of going into acting. But when she realised inhabiting other characters wasn’t for her, she switched to geology – seemingly disconnecting herself from drama for ever – and set her sights on working with jewellery.

    The link between geology and a career in fine jewellery and luxury watches may seem obscure but, as Lauren plainly points out – “diamonds are rocks”. She’s more poetic,

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