Diamonds may be a girl’s best friend but for budget-conscious ring-bearers, the preferred material might be platinum. According to Platinum Guild International, the low platinum price in 2016 had retailers stocking up on the precious metal, with Indians and Americans the most likely to put a platinum ring on it. In India platinum demand soared 11.4%, … Read More →
Earrings, Deepa Gurnani New Yorkers in need for some contemporary Indian jewellery are in luck. Multi-designer jewellery brand Nimai, along with label Deepa Gurnani, NEST and The Fashion Edit, are hosting a showcase in the Big Apple to promote contemporary Indian labels on a global scale. Deepa Gurnani is run by a New York-based couple … Read More →
Global demand for silver jewellery has taken a hit but EMILY MOBBS discovers that the metal continues to soldier on in Australia and New Zealand. Is there a dark cloud on the horizon for silver jewellery? Recently-published data on supply and demand for the white metal begs the question. According to the Interim Silver Market … Read More →
According to the Interim Silver Market Review, which provides a provisional forecast and is conducted by the Thomson Reuters GFMS team on behalf of The Silver Institute, demand for silver jewellery and silverware fell 10.9 per cent to 257.6 million ounces last year. The good news is that despite ongoing global pressures, the silver jewellery … Read More →
Six Chinese fine jewellery brands made it to a list of the world’s 100 largest luxury companies, according to the fourth annual Global Powers of Luxury Goods report by market research firm Deloitte. The report, titled “The new luxury consumer,” examined top luxury goods companies globally based on their consolidated sales of goods in FY 2015, which Deloitte … Read More →
De Beers Group announced that its Forevermark diamond brand has inscribed its two millionth diamond in Surat, India. The 3.48-carat round brilliant stone has been inscribed with a unique “2,000,000” serial number. The milestone follows the announcement in February this year of Forevermark being available in more than 2,000 retail outlets worldwide. The US$10 million … Read More →
The ultra-rare “Apollo and Artemis” diamond earrings made history when they sold for US$57,425,478 at Sotheby’s Geneva, the auction house announced. The blue and pink diamonds are now the most valuable pair of earrings ever sold at auction, according to Sotheby’s. Sotheby’s inaugural sale of Magnificent Jewels and Noble Jewels at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel … Read More →