The R&M “Lettre”

Let ’em eat this. Sotheby’s will auction some long-unseen jewels that belonged to doomed French queen Marie Antoinette at an auction in Geneva on Nov. 12.

De Beers’ decision to launch a laboratory-grown diamond jewelry brand called Lightbox was likely prompted by a desire to create clear segmentation of the lab-grown and mined diamond industries and to protect its revenues from the mined diamond business, ABN Amro Bank says in a report.

Van Cleef & Arpels is bringing its L’École, School of Jewelry Arts, back to New York City this fall.

Press release – Raises funds to help student scholars from diamond communities.

The World Diamond Council (WDC) has invited the public to review reforms to its System of Warranties (SoW), a method the organization established to keep the supply chain conflict-free.

ALROSA Group, the world leader in diamond production, announces diamond sales results for May and five months of 2018.

Group to launch Real is Rare in China in July.

Swiss luxury goods company Richemont has reached an agreement to acquire all the share capital of  Watchfinder, a British retailer and website that sells preowned watches.

Signet Jewelers, the world’s largest retailer of diamond jewelry, will become the first chain to join De Beers’ pilot of an end-to-end diamond blockchain program called Tracr, the miner announced.

CEO Bruce Cleaver on why the company’s lab-grown diamonds won’t get a color or clarity grade, and why customers would tolerate losing them in the sea.

The Board of the Diamond Producers Association acknowledges the decision of De Beers Group to enter the synthetic diamond market through its subsidiary Element Six.

Press release – De Beers Group today announced the launch of a new company called Lightbox Jewelry that will begin marketing a new brand of laboratory-grown diamond jewelry under the Lightbox name in September