The R&M “Lettre”

Filmmaker Laurent Cartier follows the determined men who search Sierra Leone’s Sewa River for natural diamonds.

Dr. Gaetano Cavalieri has served for the past 19 years as president of CIBJO, the World Jewellery Confederation.

Last month, a panel of style and diamond jewelry experts converged on Zoom to discuss celebrity style, design trends, and the psychology behind current shopping behaviors.

According to Bain & Company (The Global Diamond Report 2019), the global jewellery market in 2019 was estimated at approximately $330 bn. Diamond jewellery sales are estimated at $80 bn, and its luxury segment accounts for about 10% (~$8 bn) of the sum.

Kathleen Cutler, who calls herself “a modern sales expert for high-end brands,” has been slipping into our Instagram feeds a lot lately. She’s enthusiastically name-checked on the platform by jewelry retailers and brands that rave about how her methodology has boosted their sales with affluent younger shoppers.

U.S. consumer confidence increased in September to its highest level since the COVID-19 pandemic began.

 After a year of pains, and ahead of one of the most complicated years since World War II, De Beers’ market share sank in 2019. Not only De Beers, but ALROSA, Rio Tinto, and Petra all lost market share.

A new diamond price list hopes to become an industry-wide resource that will tally data from many different sources.

Tiffany & Co. plans to achieve 100% traceability of diamonds and precious metals in the coming years as part of a sustainability pledge it released this week.

With the pandemic causing the cancellation of large events, weddings have no doubt been affected. But it’s not necessarily as dire as it sounds—weddings are happening, as are engagements, in a big way.

Find out everything you ever wanted to know about precious stones… discover their secrets, riches and mysteries at the “Gems” exhibition, from September 16, 2020 to June 14, 2021 in Paris, in the heart of the marvelous and impressive Grande Galerie de l’évolution (Gallery of Evolution).

The red, pink and purple diamonds in the penultimate Argyle Pink Diamonds Tender are making their rounds, mostly virtually of course.