A piece of jewelry is an object that is often valuable, unless it is just a piece of costume jewelry. The latter are either imitating real precious stones with semi-precious ones, either junk jewelry.

Jewelry are very much appreciated by women who usually wear them more than men. They might be necklaces, pendants, rings, bracelets, and so on. In general, jewelry are kept very preciously by their owner. People care a lot about their jewelry since -besides having a financial value- they have a great sentimental value. Indeed, when a piece of jewelry is given to someone, it means that this person really counts a lot for the other, it is a token of friendship, or love. Which makes the wedding ring a jewel that is greatly romantic for it represents the couple's union. There is often engraved in the inner side of the ring the wedding date or a romantic phrase.

In children's books, thieves or pirates are very often looking for jewelry that have been hidden in a special place or in a chest. Culturally, we can say that jewelry are very valuables. In real life, thieves also robe jewelry at people's houses for they are often more valuables than anything else and may be sold back easily.

Famous characters in movies or cartoons also are very looking for jewelry. For instance, in Ocean 12, the two main characters (Ocean's group and François Toulour) are fighting for a magnificent piece of jewelry : the Imperial Coronation Egg that Fabergé (a famous Russian jeweler) made out of gold, diamonds and other very precious stones. In Titanic, researches in the wreck of the Titanic are made to find a very valuable jewelry called the Heart of the Ocean.