The U.S. consumer price index (CPI) for jewelry declined 5 percent year on year to 171.35 points in October and the reading slipped about 4 points from September's index. The CPI for watches, meanwhile, rose 2.6 percent to 124.42 points, ...
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The “Blue Belle of Asia,” weighing 392.52 carats, set a new world record price for a sapphire when it sold for $17.5 million, leading Christie’s to its highest jewelry auction total ever. Click through the gallery to ...
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Martin Rapaport, the chairman of the Rapaport Group, has released a comprehensive editorial titled “Honest Grading” that discloses the over-grading of over 100,000 diamonds, valued at more than a $1 billion. Rapaport calls upon ...
Baltimore--Niche magazine has named the finalists for its 2015 awards for excellence in fine craft, which includes various categories for jewelry design. Judging is based on three main criteria: technical excellence in both surface ...
The analyst presentation that De Beers published this week on behalf of Anglo American was as revealing as the company’s much publicized Diamond Insight Report. Whether this was a once-off publication or not, the presentation was ...
The recent re-launch of the CanadaMark hallmark by Dominion Diamond Corporation is designed to enhance the company’s status as Canada’s primary diamond mining company. While CanadaMark is essentially a business-to-business (B2B) ...
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Every year before its fashion show, Victoria’s Secret unveils a gem-adorned “Fantasy Bra,” many times created in collaboration with renowned jeweler Mouawad. For 2014, the company has announced that for the first time it ...
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Another round of jewels from the collections of the late Estée and Evelyn Lauder are the highlight of Sotheby’s upcoming Magnificent Jewels sale, scheduled for Dec. 9 in New York. Estée Lauder (1906-2004) was the ...
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The JA New York Special Delivery show, designed as a pre-holiday cash-and-carry for retailers, closed Tuesday at the Javits center after three days of buying and selling. A number of retailers in attendance who spoke with National ...
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A cushion-cut, L color, VS2 diamond weighing 101.36 carats sold for $5 million, or $49,100 per carat, during Christie’s Important Jewels auction held Wednesday. The auction house’s sale, which took place in New York, totaled ...
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The diamond and jewelry market, like the global economy, is sending mixed messages ahead of the holiday shopping season. The prevalent claim that the economy is showing its strongest prospects since the 2008 crash is being disputed by ...
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The U.S. consumer price index (CPI) for jewelry declined 3.8 percent year on year to 172.35 points in September, although it was the highest reading since January. The CPI for watches, meanwhile, rose 1.9 percent to 125.29 points, marking ...
Sotheby’s anticipates that the 8.62-carat pigeon’s blood “Graff ruby,” one of the finest privately owned rubies in the world, will sell for as much as $9 million at its auction in Geneva next month. ...
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A new world auction record for a fancy vivid pink diamond was set at Sotheby’s Tuesday when an 8.41-carat internally flawless fancy vivid purple-pink diamond sold for $17.8 million. An Asian private buyer bought the diamond, which ...
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Blue Nile is being challenged by rising diamond prices, forcing the online jeweler to seek out growth in other areas. As diamond prices rise, eroding Blue Nile’s competitive advantage that its lower online prices offer, consumers will ...
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