This week: Jewelry sales soared in October. People are flipping the Patek Philippe Cubitus for big bucks. Pearl found in mussels meal gets set in necklace. All below.

 

U.S. consumers may spend $1 trillion this holiday

– Tenoris: October jewelry sales up 7.4%

 

New report looks at future of jewelry and watches

– Jewelers realize potential of physical stores

 

New fund planned to drive natural diamond demand

– Industry sounds off on Signet–De Beers campaign

– Sally Morrison talks up natural diamonds on local TV (video)

 

De Beers, Botswana hope to sign new contract soon

 

Belgium diamond trade’s figures are “catastrophic” bank says

 

India’s gem, jewelry exports rise in October

– Surat diamond industry’s vacation extended a week

– India’s GJEPC publishes open letter at “critical moment”

 

Titan’s managing director on falling profits, lab-grown diamonds

– Is the company going into lab-grown?

 

FT: Lab-grown diamond business looks for niches as prices plummet

– Swarovski gets “positive reception” to lab-growns in China

 

Kimberley Process lifts ban on Central African Republic

– CAR says security problem no longer exists

 

Diamond business seeks reform of Kimberley Process

 

Market surges for remaining Argyle pinks

 

WWD talks with Susan Jacques

 

GIA finds unusual inclusions in natural diamonds

 

JVC warns jewelers: File ownership info by New Year’s

 

Patrice Leguéreau, head of Chanel’s jewelry studio, dies

 

Alexandre Arnault leaves Tiffany & Co.

 

Varda Shine steps down as Petra chair

 

Jewelers Mutual appoints Mastercard exec to board

 

Saks Fifth Avenue cancels holiday light display

 

JCPenney adds buy now, pay later financing option for jewelry

 

Smaller watchmakers band together to navigate manufacturing hurdles

– Indie watch brands “dialing up the playfulness”

 

Swiss watchmaking “rejecting elitism”

 

All Rolex Submariners now worth total of nearly $50 billion

 

Patek Philippe Cubitus watches flip for $50,000 profit

 

Gen Z fuels secondhand watch market

 

Rare Patek Philippe complications achieve millions at Geneva auctions

 

Necklace linked to Marie Antoinette scandal sells for over $4.8 million

– A brief history of that “Affair of the Necklace”

 

Burmese ruby ring tops $5 million at auction

 

Mary Tyler Moore’s Van Cleef & Arpels jewels up for sale

 

Kendra Scott collaborates on butterfly jewelry with Dolly Parton

 

Jared Jewelers debuts game-ball ring with Detroit Lions QB Jared Goff

 

Jake Paul gets diamond ear covers, $7 million watch ahead of Tyson fight

 

Bernard Arnault buddies up to Elon Musk

 

South Africa won’t help illegal gold miners enclosed inside a mine

 

Canadian diamond miners join forces on pendant to fundraise for families in need

 

Couple sues jeweler after family heirloom ring is stolen

 

Nanny says celebrity jeweler threw clothes at her

 

Qatari royals fights in U.K. court over Idol’s Eye diamond

 

California state worker stole diamonds on the job

 

Mom could lose job over school fine for daughter’s ear piecing

 

Diner has pearl found in bowl of mussels set in necklace

 

Diver finds ring lost 50 years ago near Barbados

 

Jeweler: These “subtle signs” mean your partner wants you to pop the question

 

Six new books on jewelry

 

From the Podcast   

The Jewelry District, Episode 134: Patek Philippe’s Cubitus, De Beers and Signet Ad, Roberto Coin

 

 

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