JCK Online - April 1, 2005

Following two years of volatile, rising prices, the platinum market will be calmer in 2005, say experts, providing a stable basis for healthy sales of jewelry and watches made from the metal. Supporting those sales are new programs for retailers and a strong spotlight on platinum, as worn by style setters and celebrities.

• Cover Story
• A Taste for Platinum Delicacies

• Features
• What Once Was Old is New Again
• Grade Expectations
• A Retail Space Odyssey
• The Ghost of Appraisals Past
• Coming to America
• Mall Exodus?

• Jewelers' Notebook
• Pretty Packaging
• Jewelry with a Purpose
• Jewelers Create Pieces with a Purpose
• Gem Pricing
• Fine, Extra-Fine Strong in Tucson
• In the Industry
• Mother's Day Contest Founder Publishes Book
• People
• MIDAS Texan Fine Jewelry Show Set for August
• Brain Press Launches Web Site
• AGS Labs in Dubai, Belgium
• Jewel of the Month
• Sri Lankan Sapphire
• Strategies for Selling
• Top Add-On Questions

• Opinion
• Counterpoint
• The Trade-Show Advantage
• Editor's Page
• Social Insecurity?
• Readers' Forum
• Cost, Margins, and Goldsmiths

• UpFront
• Business
• LVMH Drops Christian Lacroix
• North-South-East-West
• Thinking Outside the (Jewelry) Box?
• Reducing Aged Inventory
• Newswire
• Diamonds
• De Beers Wins Victory, but Keeps Defaulting
• De Beers Sets New Sales Record
• GIA Expands Its Labs
• Balance Your Diamond Inventory, Speaker Says
• DISC Returns to Represent America
• Fashion
• Understanding Color
• Rumor mill
• A Jewel of an Exhibition
• A Growing Population
• Gems
• Terms of Enhancement
• Rio Tinto Reports on Argyle
• Smithsonian Adds a Star
• Fifty-Carat Unenhanced Emerald Goes on Tour
• CIBJO Wants No Uncertain Terms
• Pittsburgh Blues
• Red Carpet
• Man Jewels!
• Necklaces Return to the Red Carpet
• Best and Worst
• Spotlight
• Online Diamond Sales Surge on Valentine's Day
• QUIZ: Guess My Weight
• Suspected Killer of Three Jewelers May Face Death
• A Literary Treasure
• Jewelry Show Sees Armed Break-In
• Friedman's to Close 165 Stores
• Odimo Has IPO
• Watches
• Newswire
• Luxury Watches Boost Swatch
• Swiss Watch Exports Set Record in 2004
• Cartier, Jaeger-LeCoultre Unite on New Watch