Hard to think about anything beyond yesterday’s presidential inauguration—its marvelous jewelry moments (finally!), but also its powerful reverberating messages. I am surely not the only one who was moved by The Hill We Climb by poet laureate Amanda Gorman. Her exquisite reading (and lemon yellow jacket and scarlet headband, both by Prada, and oh, her…

Peter Engel (pictured), who has served as president of Fred Meyer Jewelers for more than 15 years, will step down from the position on March 31, the company confirmed to JCK. Carolyn Dabbundo, vice president of East Coast sales, and Kirsten Darrow, general vice president of marketing and merchandising, are also leaving the company in February,…

The watch in question: A Rolex Datejust with a stainless steel Jubilee bracelet. Internet watch sleuths first spotted it just days ago and if ever there were a “special occasion timepiece” befitting an American president, one who has spent most of his life in prestigious government roles, this surely would be it.   The Rolex…

Happy Inauguration Day! The Biden-Harris administration begins its work today, and will be charged with managing several convergent crises in the United States: the COVID-19 virus, which has claimed the lives of over 400,000 Americans; the spread of misinformation posing as legitimate news; and a growing economic crisis fueled by high unemployment due to COVID-19. …

Ginny Wright, a former executive at cosmetics company L’Oreal, has taken over as CEO of Audemars Piguet North America, effective Jan. 18. She will be based in the watch company’s New York City office, and will oversee all of the watch brand’s business activities in North America and Latin America. She takes over from Patrick…