The diamond miner and marketer sold $450 million in rough in its final sales cycle of the year, compared with $422 million in the same period last year.
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The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County will open an exhibition featuring more than 60 rare green diamonds on Saturday.
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There are only 500 editions of the TAG Heuer Link timepiece available for purchase.

The two events will be held together at the convention center, and JCK Las Vegas will launch a gemstone neighborhood when it moves back to the Sands.

Total sales in the region also were up 1 percent, bolstered by a strong performance from the fashion jewelry segment.

It’s the seventh piece of rough that’s 100 carats or larger found by the mining company this year.

The retail chain blamed it on weak retail sales in Canada and renovations to two flagship stores.

National Jeweler polled 10 retailers about traffic and top sellers in the days following Thanksgiving.

De Beers’s sales for the ninth sales cycle of 2017 totaled $455 million, down slightly year-over-year.

The $499 GemCam Imaging System takes high definition 360-degree photos or videos with a 40x zoom.

And six more points from The Knot’s 2017 Jewelry & Engagement Study.

The 2018 edition of the show will have between 600-700 exhibitors, down from 1,300 this year.

Optimum Diamonds in New York paid an undisclosed amount for the fancy red stone.

Three members join as three finish their decade-long terms.

The 2017 Victoria’s Secret iteration is valued at $2 million and bedecked with almost 6,000 gemstones--including diamonds, yellow sapphires and blue topaz.

National Jeweler tags along on a tour of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, one of the recipients of the money raised by Jewelers for Children.

The large gem-quality rough diamonds came from the Jubilee pipe last month and range in size from 82 to 163 carats.

The underperforming stores in Michigan, Florida, Illinois and Texas are being shuttered as the retailer puts more emphasis on its small-format shops.

In the third quarter, Pandora’s U.S. sales declined 2 percent in Danish krone and they are down 3 percent so far this year.

Working forward to lasting memories and customer loyalty. What are you working forward to?
In the U.S., 146 jewelers ceased operations in the third quarter, down from 313 in the same period last year.


















