This week: Jewelry-makers sour on gold. The Rolex market rebalances. Plus, possibly the grossest jewelry featured in this column, which is saying something. All below.

 

Signet Jewelers’ sales soften in second quarter

– Signet “seems to use debt quite sensibly”

– In a “tough spot”

– Is the market wrong about the stock?

– Completes Blue Nile acquisition

– Acquisition dissected on JCK podcast (audio)

– Earnings call transcript

 

JA New York to end summer show

 

IGI issuing cut grades for fancy shapes

 

Pravay Narvekar: “Winter is coming” for diamond industry

– De Beers warns of “Diwali disruption”

 

Martin Rapaport: Diamonds need to refocus on love and commitment

 

Place Vendôme execs remain cold to lab-grown diamonds

 

GIA finds lab-grown sapphire mixed in with natural parcel

 

Gold “loses its shine” for jewelry-makers

 

Rolex hikes U.K. prices by up to 7%

– Is the Rolex market rebalancing?

 

Influencers like to talk jewelry on TikTok but don’t make money at it

 

Luxury brands face new retail dilemma in China

 

Chanel prevails in latest rounds of jewelry button lawsuit

 

Beny Steinmetz tries to overturn bribery conviction

– Says he “never corrupted anyone”

– Geneva prosecutor demands sentence upheld

– Is he still a billionaire?

 

Are Mozambique’s rubies a blessing or a curse?

 

African governments powerless to stop illegal mining

 

Fatality recorded at the Gahcho Kué mine

 

Jack Henne, owner of Henne Jewelers, dies at 92

 

Interview with new Helzberg Diamonds CEO

 

Matt Stuller “optimistic” about holiday season (audio)

 

GJEPC elects Vipul Shah new chair

 

Target CEO staying on for three more years

 

Piaget CEO tries to recapture 1970s allure

 

LVMH scion wants to revive Daniel Roth watch brand

 

How Graff became a billion-dollar brand

 

How Greenwich Jewelers rebuilt after 9/11

 

RJC launches due diligence tool kit

 

Panerai CMO talks sustainability

 

Company aims to “clean up” pre-owned watch market

 

Diamond jewelry enters rental space

 

Some “courtesy” watches rarely get returned

 

The RealReal is a “total mess”

 

India’s Vaibhav Jewellers files for IPO

 

Romanian jeweler invests in digitalization

 

Tiffany launches new campaign with Beyoncé

– Why this campaign is different

 

Natural Diamond Council debuts “To Treasure, Now And Forever” campaign

 

Jewelry world mourns Queen Elizabeth II

– Who will inherit her jewelry?

– Why Kate Middleton has the inside track

– A look back at her jewelry from Vanity Fair, Swirlster, Good Housekeeping

– Got 300-diamond necklace as wedding gift

– India hopes it can get Koh-i-Noor back

– Snopes investigates “stolen diamond” claims

– What jewels to expect at Prince Charles’ coronation

 

Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s iconic collar up for auction

 

How hip-hop has shifted the jewelry landscape

– The New York Times reviews book on  hip-hop jewelry

– Jewelry adorns new book lists

 

Six “dated” jewelry trends that will be big this fall

 

Machine Gun Kelly shares obscure feature on Megan Fox’s engagement ring

 

Lil Meech exonerated in stolen watch case

 

How diamonds will let us peer deeper into the brain

 

Botched jewelry proposal goes viral

 

More jewelers using gold recycled from electronic waste

 

McDonald’s Netherlands offers jewelry from waste

 

Jewelry being made out of—well, you’ll see. Or maybe you shouldn’t. You have been warned. So  happy to have this story welcome me back from vacation.

 

From the Blog

What Kimberley Process Certification Does—And Doesn’t—Guarantee

 

From the Podcast   

The Jewelry District, Episode 77: Signet Acquires Blue Nile, Fall Fashion Trends

 

Have a nice weekend!

 

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