This week: Will Trump slap 20% tariffs on Rolex? Kim Kardashian gets Skibidi Toilet necklace. And man lies to fiancée about “rare” diamond, which is really a lab-grown. All below.

 

Another gold record: $2,700 an ounce

– Gold is new “meme stock”

– The Economist: What surging price says about “a dangerous world”  (subscription)

 

Fewer jewelry businesses closed in third quarter

– What jewelers have changed their mind about

 

De Beers will now tell you where (most of) its diamonds are from

 

De Beers production looks ready to drop again 

– Namibian diamond production down 14%

 

Lab-grown price drop leads to Surat wage delays and shutdowns

 

Ad Age: DTC companies fueling lab-growns’ rise (subscription)

– Lab-growns “aren’t as cheap as you think”

 

Oded Edelman is leaving Signet

 

Marc Montagne to head Audemars Piguet’s pre-owned program

 

GIA appoints new chief information technology officer

 

Markel names Stacey Hinton head of jeweler’s block

 

Interview with Patek Phillipe CEO Thierry Stern

– Is Stern driving Patek into irrelevance?

 

“Dangerous price war” looms in watch business

 

Will Trump slap 20% tariffs on Rolex?

 

Watches of Switzerland urged to move stock market listing to U.S.

 

Charles & Colvard receives noncompliance letter from Nasdaq

 

Judge blocks effort to create “American LVMH” 

 

Ekati owner meets with Northwest Territories government following contentious letter

– Ekati celebrates 100,000,000th carat mined

 

Regulator tells Diavik to consider climate change in closure plan

 

South African diamond dealer Louis Liebenberg arrested for fraud

 

Toronto swindler sentenced for running diamond scam

 

Crypto, diamond fraud trial opens in France

 

Jewelry company hires and trains neurodivergent artisans

 

Hannoush Jewelers opens $3 million Massachusetts flagship

 

Reed Krakoff talks John Hardy’s new direction

 

Swarovski opens lab-created diamond store in Taiwan

 

Tiffany’s Blue Book debut in Beijing taps into Chinese culture

 

All of Sotheby’s fine watches sold during Paris Luxury Week

 

A Rolex Submariner from the Cousteau family goes up for auction

 

The remarkable story of Edward VII’s mistress’ necklace

 

Jeweler Olivier Reza shows off cool apartment

 

Kim Kardashian gets Skibidi Toilet necklace

 

Sophie Turner stars in new miniseries about infamous jewelry thief

 

Fiancé lies about “rare” diamond ring—it’s really a lab

 

Antiques Roadshow appraises “piece of glass” jewelry for thousands

 

Is New York again a shopping town?

 

Scientists believe diamonds could fight global warming

 

From the Podcast   

The Jewelry District, Episode 133: Guest Stephanie Gottlieb

 

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