April is here, and that means it's time to view new jewelry and watch collections at BaselWorld – The Watch and Jewellery Fair. It opened yesterday, and more than 100,000 attendees are anticipated to survey wares at the booths of 2,000-plus exhibitors. Additionally, some 2,500 media representatives are expected to attend. Whew!

That many people working a show of that size require sustenance, so it's a good thing that the fair is full of not only glamorous festivities, but delicious ones. For example, Henry Dunay is hosting a champagne and caviar reception on Friday to celebrate his one-of-a-kind creations. Carrera y Carrera is having a tapas hour every day, Thursday through Sunday, at its booth (expect sangria as the firm is Spanish). And, Joaillerie de France is having a reception launch on Saturday for its same-name manufacturing label: the menu, likely French.

Get three squares by attending the Israel Diamond Institute's breakfast on Friday, Swarovski's luncheons Friday through Tuesday, and Yvel's cocktail reception on Sunday to mark the unveiling of its shop-in-shop concept. IceLink promises a "–196 degrees Icefood" experience at its booth Thursday through Sunday, and Stephen Webster is hosting "Killer Man Jaro Blue, a Tanzanite Jewellery Launch" on Friday; forget food at this one, the invite only promises vodka.

Meanwhile, Hublot Geneve entertained watch aficionados at a soiree on Thursday at Les Trois Rois—one of few hotels in Basel; hmm...JCKstyle suspects this venue was really just an elaborate way of showing off the firm's covetable accommodations.

Weekly Gem
News reports reveal that anthropologists in Peru turned up what is believed to be the oldest piece of gold jewelry in the world—a 4,000-year-old gold tube and rock necklace. The find was kept a secret for seven years, though, because researchers didn't want looters raiding the site before the excavation was complete. Cynical editors offer this observation: Gold cost less than $300 an ounce when the piece was discovered, and now gold is worth three times that sum.

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