History Main / GemEncrusted

* [[http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3032/3004525567_3019df8f35_o.jpg This dress]] that UsefulNotes/MarieAntoinette wore in ''Manga/RoseOfVersailles'', which has ermine trim on the dress and cape, where the ermine is studded with jewelry. This is why it's the page picture for PimpedOutDress.AnimeAndManga.

Compare BuiltWithLego, GoldMakesEverythingShiny, PowerCrystal, SymbolMotifClothing. BlingBlingBang is for when this is applied to firearms.

Compare BuiltWithLego, GoldMakesEverythingShiny, PowerCrystal, SymbolMotifClothing.

* [[http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3032/3004525567_3019df8f35_o.jpg This dress]] that MarieAntoinette wore in ''Manga/RoseOfVersailles'', which has ermine trim on the dress and cape, where the ermine is studded with jewelry. This is why it's the page picture for PimpedOutDress.AnimeAndManga.

* One "camo" scheme available for gear in ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps2'' is Diamond, which is [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin exactly what]] [[BlingBlingBang it sounds like]], and looks as [[http://callofduty.wikia.com/wiki/Diamond ridiculous as you'd think.]] Of course, given the incredibly difficult requirements for unlocking it, it's really more of a BraggingRightsReward than a legitimate camouflage option.

* In ''GoldieGoldAndActionJack'', Goldie had a diamond encrusted nail clipper.
* When ''TheSimpsons'' went to Africa they met a NoCelebritiesWereHarmed version of Jane Goodall, who was using the chimps she was ostensibly studying to mine diamonds for her. She had diamonds HiddenInPlainSight everywhere, even on the bottoms of her shoes (a ShoutOut to the song "Diamonds on the Soles of her Shoes")

** The bejeweled ermine dress in ''Manga/RoseOfVersailles'' is heavily based on [[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marie_Leszczynska_by_François_Albert_Stiemart,_1726,_Versailles.jpg this dress worn by Marie Leszczynska, wife of Louis XV]]. There are several other paintings of royal ladies with dresses trimmed with furs studded with jewels. Although some could have been embellishments by the painters.

* The design aesthetic of ''Warhammer'''s High Elves involves quite a lot of this, with their armour and weaponry tending to have dozens of cut oval gemstones embedded into surfaces, as well as a profusion of jewelled bracelets, crowns and belts. The higher-ranking High Elf models can have anything up to forty such stones sculpted on, and even the lowliest rank and file troopers tend to at least have three or four (most commonly on matched pairs of bracelets or vambraces, one on the brow on a helm or circlet and one adorning a metal belt or sash).
* ''Warhammer 40,000'''s Eldar are, if anything, even more gem-encrusted than their High Elf fantasy counterparts, though the oval gemstone shapes on the models can just as easily be painted as blisters in the high-tech plastics they build in. The gemstones are not all decorative, however, as psychically-attuned spirit stones play a huge role in Craftworld Eldar society - providing their souls succour from the predations of a thirsting god when they die. As such many of the gemstones in Eldar technology contain the souls of departed Eldar to control the devices.

* In the ''ArmyOfTwo'' series, weapons can be gold plated and diamond encrusted, including grenades. A diamond encrusted frag grenade would actually be good, if a bit expensive.

** The bejeweled ermine dress in ''Manga/RoseOfVersailles'' is heavily based on [[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marie_Leszczynska_by_Fran%C3%A7ois_Albert_Stiemart,_1726,_Versailles.jpg this dress worn by Marie Leszczynska, wife of Lois XV]]. There are several other paintings of royal ladies with dresses trimmed with furs studded with jewels. Although some could have been embellishments by the painters.
* Once commonly done with weapons including ones actually meant to be taken into battle. This sort of thing was the mark of the ProudWarriorRace tradition that had aristocrats who wanted custom weapons. Modern armies are more interested in [[CombatPragmatist killing people efficiently]] and you can (usually) do that better by issueing more cheap weapons to more people than with the expense of a decorated one. For similar reasons, Greeks and Romans played down that sort of thing.

* Taken up to more than eleven with the [[http://m.gadgets.ndtv.com/mobiles/news/diamond-studded-iphone-6-by-alexander-amosu-costs-gbp-17-million-589753 £1.7 million diamond studded iPhone]]. That's over 2.7 milluon US Dollars. And that's the latest in a line of them.

* The sterling silver, amethyst-studded pager which doubles as a time-travel device in FanFic/{{Back to the Frollo}}

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* Played with in ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade''. The Holy Grail is [[spoiler:the one NOT GemEncrusted. Thus, "the cup of a carpenter."]]

* Smaug the Golden, the famous dragon from ''Literature/TheHobbit'' has his belly covered with precious jewels from lying immobile for years on a mound of treasure, neatly making him (mostly) immune to the standard dragon weak spot.

* Once commonly done with weapons including ones actually meant to be taken into battle. This sort of thing was the mark of the ProudWarriorRace tradition that had aristocrats who wanted custom weapons. Modern armies are more interested in [[CombatPragmatist killing people efficiently]] and you can do that better by issueing more cheap weapons to more people than with the expense of a decorated one. For similar reasons, Greeks and Romans played down that sort of thing.

* ''VideoGame/SaintsRowGatOutOfHell'' has the [[BlingBlingBang Diamond Sting Submachine gun]], an SMG that's been covered with diamonds and shoots money.

* BritneySpears has an outfit in her Femme Fatale tour for I Wanna Go with short jeans that are extremely gemmy and shiny. She also wears many shiny body suits.

* Quite a few things in ''TheFiveStarStories'', a manga absolutely infamous for its overly fancy HumongousMecha that look like they either belong to classical nobility or particularly unsubtle gangsters.

* While it is not, strictly, gem-encrusted, the city of Matherion, capital city of the Tamul Empire (seen in [[Literature/TheElenium the Tamuli]]) is covered in nacre tiles. The end result is that the Empire gets a major economic crisis every time there's a large storm in Matherion.

* In Creator/RobertEHoward's ConanTheBarbarian story "Literature/TheTowerOfTheElephant" -- the title tower. Conan (who is young at this point) is rather dazzled by it; only the OldMaster thief Taurus gets him to go on, for the MineralMacGuffin.

* Pretty much all of Prince Nana's attire since 2002 that isn't a business suit, except for that period in 2008 where he lost all his riches and was begging Wrestling/RingOfHonor to rehire him.

* [[http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3032/3004525567_3019df8f35_o.jpg This dress]] that MarieAntoinette wore in ''Manga/RoseOfVersailles'', which has ermine trim on the dress and cape, where the ermine is studded with jewelry. It's a huge reason it was once chosen as the picture for PimpedOutDress.

* [[http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3032/3004525567_3019df8f35_o.jpg This dress]] that MarieAntoinette wore in ''Manga/RoseOfVersailles'', which has ermine trim on the dress and cape, where the ermine is studded with jewelry. It's a huge reason it was chosen as the picture for PimpedOutDress.

* Ubiquitous in LadyGaga's videos - in "Bad Romance" she wears gem encrusted stiletto heels with one of her costumes.

* Gahan of Gathol wore a jewel-encrusted harness in the beginning of Creator/EdgarRiceBurroughs's ''[[JohnCarterOfMars Chessmen of Mars]]''.