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De Beers’ first announcement of its lab-grown diamond line set the jewelry world on fire. But the week of the 24th September Lightbox Jewelry debuted, and the world still seems mostly the same.
The Indian government’s decision to raise the import duty on cut and polished diamonds, semi-processed stones, half cut or broken diamonds and lab-grown stones and processed colored gemstones to 7.5 percent from 5 percent was exactly the type of news the industry on sub-continent could do without.
New York City regularly provides jewelry designers with plentiful inspiration, whether it’s the Chrysler building’s art deco spire, the tree-lined cobblestone streets of DUMBO, or even the idea of a cocktail party held at the height of the city’s Bonfire of the Vanities era. But in the case of a jeweler like Harry Winston, when the heartbeat of the brand relies […]
The Diavik Diamond Mine in Canada has yielded three sizable rough diamonds—including one very rare yellow—and Rio Tinto will try to sell them this month.
So far, 2018 has been a positive year for the diamond trade, with the US and China, the two largest diamond-jewelry markets, showing steady growth. In fact, in China, the jewelry-retail sector has experienced positive results after three years of decline.
Tiffany & Co. has been added to the list of Gem Award winners for 2019.
Sotheby’s brought in a total of HKD 315.2 million ($40.2 million) at its Hong Kong auction Wednesday the 3th. as a 5-carat blue diamond fetched $13.8 million.
U.S. consumers are expected to spend more on holiday shopping this year, and millennials likely will be the biggest spenders of all, according to a recent Accenture survey.
The Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) has entered into a collaboration that, it claimed, will significantly increase the volume of artisanal-mined gold in the market.
The 5-carat fancy vivid blue ‘Ai’ diamond was named after the Chinese word for love, and one buyer certainly fell for the stone at auction Wednesday—to the tune of $13.8 million, to be precise.
Richemont is looking into buying Italian jeweler Buccellati, an unexpected turn given its current owner purchased it just a little more than a year ago, according to a Reuters report quoting Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera‘s supplement L’Economia.
The Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) announced it is reviewing its Code of Practices (COP) standard.