This week: Insurance company worries about lab-grown prices. A diamond family feud. And the most common jewelry accidents. All below.

 

G7 Russian diamond sanctions are a surprising hodgepodge

– Rapaport finds U.S. rules “problematic”

– Diamond companies face “minefield”

 

U.S. government says Zimbabwe president involved in diamond, gold smuggling

– Mnangagwa says there’s no proof

 

Is the lab-grown diamond pivot finally here?

– Insurer issues warning as lab-grown prices plummet

– Are De Beers’ lab-grown prices too high? (video)

– CNN: UAE company grows diamonds in the desert

 

Pandora CEO says millennials’ reason for buying lab-growns isn’t that they’re “sustainable”

– New York Times interviews founder of Diamonds for Peace

 

IGI finds new way to distinguish fancy colored synthetics from natural

 

Gold price hits record high

 

Centric Brands announces venture with Jennifer Fisher

 

The “big four” private watch brands had a big 2023

– Is time up for the luxury watch boom?

– Breitling has escaped the affordable luxury morass

 

Tiffany ramps up production with new French factory

 

John Kennedy retiring as head of Jewelers’ Security Alliance

 

RJC elects Richline chief exec Meleski as chairman

 

Industry vet Steve Webb named exec VP of Gordon Company

 

Ewan Mason becomes CEO of Star Diamond

 

Petra CFO leaves for “personal reasons”

 

Remembering fashion icon Iris Apfel

 

Arnie Auerbach, diamond buyer for Winston and Stuller, dies

 

Jewelry salesman Eddie Grove dies

 

Four brothers from Indian diamond family prevail in court against fifth brother

 

Fossil Group recalls bracelet due to high cadmium

 

Fraunhofer US researchers develop way to use diamonds for faster electric vehicle charging

 

University of Waterloo create health-monitoring ring

 

The “jaw-dropping” popularity of tooth jewelry

 

American Museum of Natural History holding hip-hop jewelry exhibition

 

Marlene Dietrich’s jewelry legacy still glitters

 

Avi & Co. founder buys former Playboy Club

 

Isha Ambani’s blouse made from her jadau jewelry

 

Chaumet creates medals for Olympic Games

 

Blackpink’s Lisa wears Bulgari

 

Kim Kardashian uses a hair dryer before putting on jewelry

 

Jay-Z’s $161,000 Patek Philippe is studded with nearly 60 diamonds

 

Jewelry accidents “just waiting to happen”

 

Woman complains mother-in-law gave her a “fake” diamond

 

From the Blog

Is the Lab-Grown Diamond Pivot Finally Here?

 

From the Podcast     

 The Jewelry District, Episode 116: Tucson, Russian Diamond Sanctions, an Instagram Suspension

 

 

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