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The “Retail Doctor” Bob Phibbs and violinist Kai Kight will be among the featured and keynote speakers at the American Gem Society event in Hollywood next April.

The company said it might have to up movement prices after its request to alter the 2013 agreement that regulates its deliveries of components to other watchmakers was rejected.

The jeweler who “simply lived and breathed gemstones” died Oct. 22 after a battle with cancer.

The volume of rough diamonds mined was up 4 percent compared with the third quarter 2015 but remains down year-to-date.

The gemstone, which is pigeon’s blood red in color, could garner up to $12.5 million at the Magnificent Jewels auction in Hong Kong next month.

Editor-in-Chief Michelle Graff gauges the online reaction and shares her initial impressions of “Real is Rare.”

The diamond miner has made “outstanding arrangements” to outfit the wild reindeer that live near Verkhne-Munskoe with radio collars so they can be tracked.
The Kimberley Process’ Civil Society Coalition will not be attending the upcoming plenary meeting, despite the United Arab Emirates’ recent overtures and media reports to the contrary.

Stuller said it is the first supplier in the U.S. to do so, giving it access to traceable melee at a time when concerns about undisclosed small synthetics abound.
The Jewelers Security Alliance said the increase is due to a gang of “Romanian Gypsies” allegedly targeting retail jewelry stores in the United States.
The patriarch of Bruce Watters Jewelers in St. Petersburg joined the family jewelry business after serving in the U.S. Air Force.

The GIA’s Tom Moses explains the reasoning behind the more general color and clarity grades the lab assigns to synthetic stones.
The United States isn’t the only place where consumers will be seeing more diamond advertising this fall.

The laboratory said the 5.19-carat diamond represents a “significant milestone” in CVD diamond growing.

Jewelers who took our latest poll say their customers don’t ask many questions about the origin of the products they are buying. Do yours?

For the majority of jewelers who took National Jeweler/Jewelers of America’s latest poll, sales of diamond fashion jewelry are not growing.
One of National Jeweler’s top stories last week was the White House announcing that it officially had lifted the remaining sanctions on Myanmar.

Jewelers of America is giving away ammolite jewelry to raise awareness about the multi-colored gemstone.

The firm joins a number of other companies predicting a happy holiday season for retailers in 2016.

Fans of the San Jose Sharks, Tampa Bay Lightning, Washington Capitals and New York Rangers can skip this story.

The official lifting of the Burmese ruby ban, some big championship rings and a beautiful blue diamond--see it all in this week’s photo rewind.
The owner of TAG Heuer watches and jewelry brand Bulgari said business has improved in the second half of the year.

Attorneys Emily Miao and Daniel Organ dissect the jury’s verdict in Tiffany’s trademark lawsuit against wholesale club Costco.
JSN is the wholesale manufacturing division associated with Ben Moss, the Canadian retailer that’s going out of business.















