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MVMT Watches was started in 2013 by two 20-somethings and has grown into a $70 million a year business.

The exquisite beauty and rarity of colored diamonds is driving a surge in demand.

The diamond miner and marketer’s sightholder and auction sales totaled $530 million.
Shao Cai pleaded guilty to stealing more than $100,000 from San Francisco’s Jest Jewels.

Anders Colding Friis headed the company for less than four years.
The sort house was ransacked and emeralds were stolen from the safe.

The World Gold Council said the market is benefitting from rising wages and increased consumer confidence.

They don’t form in the same layer of the Earth as other diamonds.
According to the 2018 Thales Data Threat Report, U.S. retailers experienced twice as many IT security breaches than other retailers worldwide last year.

Jewelry in the luxury conglomerate’s portfolio turned in a solid performance while watch sales continued to recover.

After several New York editions of the jewelry trade show, it’s set to hold its first West Coast event this October.

An “excellent” six-month period for Bulgari and strong watch sales propelled the division.

Crimes without punishment, amazing gemstones and legal rows round out the list of the most-read stories on NationalJeweler.com in the first half of the year.

Net sales in the six-month period reached $4.29 billion, with growth in all regions.

Second-quarter statistics from the Jewelers Board of Trade showed a continuation of the trend seen in the first quarter.

Diamond production also was down year-over-year due to the loss of the Mir underground mine.

National Jeweler spoke with this year’s Awards for Excellence recipients about the industry today and more. Rounding out the honorees: David Prager on behalf of De Beers.

National Jeweler spoke with this year’s Awards for Excellence recipients about their career paths, the industry today and more. Featured today: the president and CEO of Cartier North America.
Rapaport lambasted De Beers in his annual breakfast presentation in Las Vegas and has since publicly claimed the diamond company is destroying transparency in the trade. Editor-in-Chief Michelle Graff examines the genesis of his claims.

The accident comes less than a year after the company lost eight in a flood at another diamond mine.

Noticeably absent from this year’s Couture trade show, Stephen Webster talks about what’s next for the emerging designer platform.
The Census Bureau said the population of all race and ethnic groups, except for “non-Hispanic white alone,” grew between July 2016 and July 2017.

Headed to the Big Apple for the JA New York jewelry trade show? Here are some other jewelry events as well as a few notable Manhattan happenings.

Evan Berkley has more than two decades of jewelry industry experience.


















