Sept. 8 Diamond Shavings: Your Friday Internet Roundup
This week: Making an attempt to grasp Rolex’s plan for Bucherer. Do folks nonetheless wish to buy groceries? Why the cluster ring turned often called the #ShutUpRing. All under.
Signet sees hope for vacation after powerful quarter
– Firm has a good suggestion of when you’re getting engaged
– Earnings name transcript
– Pam Danziger: How “companies” technique offers Signet a competitive advantage (with quote by moi)
How Rolex’s buy of Bucherer will shake up watch industry
– Why Watches of Switzerland should be worried
– Rolex retailers in Europe, U.S. should worry too
– What happens now
– Questions on impact on market
– “The acquisition makes perfect sense”
– What makes Bucherer special
– Good evaluation from founder of Chrono24
Privately held corporations outperform other watch brands
Hodinkee cuts one-fifth of jobs
GIA lays off 151 at Southern California headquarters
JFC government director David Rocha to retire
Greenland Ruby mine suspends manufacturing
Diamond costs are falling in a single key segment of market
– Rapaport: Costs continue to drop
– De Beers’ tough gross sales decline again
– The “measured” language of De Beers’ rough sales
India urges tough sellers to be cautious
Choron Group invests in new Ekati proprietor
India asks U.S. to permit launch of frozen Russian funds
– The New York Occasions on Russian diamond sanctions
– Two plans for sidelining Russian diamonds (video)
– Alrosa begins growing new diamond mine
India needs to incorporate lab-grown diamonds in free trade talks
WD offers up authorized fights amid new tech pivot
The lengthy historical past of stabilizing lab-grown diamond costs
– China’s Lilang Diamond claims they’ve now actually stabilized
How do retailers cope with lower lab-grown prices?
Are lab-growns catching on in United Arab Emirates?
Why the jewellery enterprise hasn’t plateaued
Vox: “Going purchasing” is dead
The Atlantic: Brick-and-mortar retail lives!
Good Earth opens showrooms in three luxurious malls
– Signal of malls’ health?
CEOs backing down from pledges to be more egalitarian
The RealReal and the challenges of the resale business
– How new CEO plans to revive it
Jewellery model Aurate’s partnerships with wholesale retailers
Swarovski’s “retail transformation”
– Firm plans new lab-grown line
– Appoints authorized and compliance officer
Borsheims promotes 4 vets on government staff
Charles Stanley joins Day’s Jewelers board
Richard Mille nonetheless concerned in companies he founded (subscription)
Diamond sellers charged with unlawful transactions
Christie’s cancels future Heidi Horten jewellery sale
Union plans strike at De Beers’ Venetia mine
The struggles of gem miners in Mozambique
California cracking down on greenwashing
FTC continues to focus on false “Made in USA” advertising
Adamas One receives NASDAQ delisting notice
Bulgari household heirs in “bitter feud” (subscription)
Surat architect-engineer creates diamond portrait of Prime Minister Modi for birthday
Wallace Chan exhibit in London will characteristic one of many world’s largest black diamonds
7-year-old lady finds 2.95 ct. diamond at state park
Diamonds Do Good awards 5 Canadian scholarships
The disappearance of freshwater pearl mussels from Scottish rivers
Jason Terry accused of stiffing celeb jeweler over $25,000 diamond Rolex
Britney Spears replaces wedding ceremony ring with a huge piece of cheap bling
Pamela Andrerson likes to buy herself jewelry (particularly when she’s a paid spokesperson)
Royal Mint makes use of recycled gold for jewelry
Why some name the cluster ring the “shut up ring” (jeez, folks)
Media Watch
– Monetary Occasions on Disney watch collectors, AI-designed watches, luxury brands and cultural conservation, Coco Chanel jewelry, and the watchmaking skills gap
– The New York Occasions on Georges and Jacques Lenfant, jewelry based on toys, bee jewelry, John Hardy’s new designs, escalator jewelry, jewelers using precious wire, the brand new Paris jewelry fair
From the Weblog
The Lengthy Historical past of Stabilizing Lab-Grown Diamond Costs
From the Podcast
The Jewellery District, Episode 103: Visitor Lorraine West
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