The public will never know what Ronald Winston looks like. Until he dies, that is.

For security reasons he, like his father before him, has not posed in publicity photographs. The closest the public has come to an image of him is a photo cleverly shot with his face obscured -- almost identical to one once taken of his father.

The dramatic aura associated with Winston, the famed president and CEO of Harry Winston jewelers and the son of legendary jeweler Harry Winston, seems to belong more to a spy-thriller than a story of a jewelry legacy. However, for a jewelry house that is accustomed to handling some of the world's most precious diamonds -- the Hope, the Jonker, the Briolette of India -- a touch of danger and intrigue seems inevitable.