See what retailers rewarded in categories such as best bridal design, fashion/bridge, statement piece, and more in the 2020 JCK Jewelry Awards. • FASHION/BRIDGE • OVER $500 24k gold and oxidized silver rectangular black tourmaline rutilated quartz earrings with emerald- and step-cut diamonds in 18k white gold bezel; $3,150; Lika Behar Collection; 201-933-7200; likabehar.com $500 & UNDER Black Jewel…

What does it take for jewelry to qualify for the “Made in the USA” label? Quite a bit, JCK learns. Is the effort worth it? Chart Metalworks, a small jewelry brand based in Portland, Maine, uses a host of raw materials to fabricate its collection, including pewter, bronze, silver, paper, and resin. All are sourced…

Like a bottle of fine wine, Jennifer Lopez, and those memories of sex in your 20s, Las Vegas gets better with age. Every year, it seems, Sin City adds new and over-the-top attractions designed to wow, entertain, satiate, and delight visitors who come to have their minds blown. More than 30,000 jewelry industry professionals soon…

Prepare to weather any fiscal storm with these time-tested jewelry retail strategies With record low unemployment, solid real wage growth, and a booming stock market, many jewelers say they’re enjoying the most robust business environment they’ve seen in a generation. “In 2019, we had the strongest year in our history,” says Sarah Person, owner and…

With 21,000 respondents, The Knot’s biennial Jewelry & Engagement Study offers a gold mine of intelligence on recently engaged couples ages 25 to 34. We cherry-picked the best ring-related findings so you don’t have to. If you haven’t been on the dating circuit in a while, one figure from wedding planning website The Knot’s 2019…

HOLIDAYS Given the slowing economy and a compressed calendar, most jewelers declared holiday 2019 a perfectly acceptable selling season, though not exactly one they popped Champagne corks over. According to Mastercard SpendingPulse, overall jewelry sales grew 1.8%, though online jewelry sales grew 8.8%. Those numbers roughly correspond with the post-holiday report from Signet, which said…

I’m not married. But lately, I’ve had wedding rings on the brain. My partner, Jim, and I have been together since 2014, and we have a 1-year-old son. We’ve talked about getting married, but the baby and the house we bought last summer took precedence. Now that I have those big things checked off the…

What JCK magazine’s Victoria Gomelsky is loving this month “For a chic, unconventional take on Classic Blue, Pantone’s 2020 Color of the Year, pair it with yellow gold.” —Victoria Gomelsky, JCK editor-in-chief (Above) One-of-a-kind Rune bracelet with 70.33 cts. t.w. cabochon Australian opals in 24k yellow gold; $24,500; Gurhan; 646-230-1122; gurhan.com Small Mojave necklace in…

Spring has sprung! Starting this year, the magazine is evolving its suite of media products to reflect the changing times and methods of content consumption the internet has brought our way. We’re calling it a “digital first” strategy, and it includes a robust suite of digital products as well as four spectacular print issues of…

On Nov. 25, LVMH and Tiffany & Co. agreed that the luxury conglomerate will purchase the famed retailer for $16.2 billion, or $135 a share, in what’s being described as the priciest deal ever in the luxury sector. The acquisition, which was approved by Tiffany shareholders on Feb. 4 but at press time still needed…

Last year, tennis pro Serena Williams introduced a new jewelry line in collaboration with Indian sightholder KP Sanghvi. Here, the four-time Olympic gold medalist talks to JCK about her vision for Serena Williams Jewelry, why the line had to include a tennis bracelet, and her favorite jewelry piece. Is there a piece from the collection…

At Antoine Abeddy’s Boston-adjacent Date & Time salon, selling is a fundamentally social experience “What do I have to do to get the guy off his couch and into the car to drive to see me and buy things from me?” asks ­Antoine Abeddy, co-owner of Date & Time, a fine jewelry and watch boutique…

Hearts On Fire’s ongoing partnership with Girls Inc. is a stellar role model for the inaugural Diamonds Do Good Jewelry Awards In 2018, executives at ­Boston-based diamond jewelry ­manufacturer Hearts On Fire decided that instead of simply describing the company as “a brand by and about women,” they needed to show it. And what better…

A jewelry designer creates a home for herself and other artists she admires in Kingston’s waterfront Rondout–West Strand Historic District “I knew that I wanted to be by the water, even though this isn’t a high-foot-traffic area. The energy here is really amazing,” says Morgan Mikula, jewelry designer and owner of Facets of Earth, her…

Dazzling palettes of pink, orange, and yellow mimic nature’s nightly masterpiece (Top) Cirque Vertical Arrow necklace with citrine, tourmaline, garnet, and beryl in 14k yellow gold; $1,430; Jane Taylor Fine Jewelry; 413-687-3153; janetaylor.com Coral Opal Ocean ring with lab-grown opal, tourmaline, sapphires, amethyst, and diamonds in 18k rose gold vermeil; $3,550; Anabela Chan; sales@anabelachan.com; anabelachan.com Double…

For Cate Blanchett, Dakota Fanning, and other always-fashionable actresses, big sleeves were a big deal at the 2020 Golden Globe Awards Cate Blanchett Are they sleeves? Are they wings? Oh, who cares when the effect is so fabulous! Blanchett was completely captivating in a bejeweled buttery yellow Mary Katrantzou spring 2020 gown. And she didn’t…

The New York City–based designer’s new collection will be the centerpiece of piercing parties everywhere Just when you thought you had enough holes in your ears, think again. Pamela Love recently released a piercing collection, and it’s everything you’d expect: studs, hoops, and huggies featuring her signature motifs—think swords, hearts, stars and moons, fish and…

Rare tropical plants growing inside the 161-year-old Singapore Botanic Gardens inspired these elegant tsavorite earrings from Munich-based jeweler Hemmerle. “Nature and its organic sculptural forms are an endless source of inspiration for Hemmerle,” says company director Christian Hemmerle, who recently visited the world-famous garden with his father, Stefan. “We find that inspiration can come at…

CAN’T-MISS COLLECTION The Painted Desert Fine jewelry brand Millapani is based in New York City, but its designs are deeply inspired by the Chilean roots of its founders, Karen Thiele and her daughters, Alexis and Tathienne Thiele. The atelier’s new Constellation collection is ­composed of 18k yellow gold pieces set with a multitude of quietly…

HOT STOCK TIP The Perfect Date Birthstones and nameplate necklaces are sweet, but a less clichéd way to celebrate a loved one (a child, a partner, etc.) is with a jewel that marks a special date. Brooklyn, N.Y.–based designer Page Sargisson has expanded her collection of 10k gold calendar pendants with the new Chakra Calendar…

Let’s be blunt: The days of relying solely on content to significantly increase your Instagram following are over. High-quality content, posted consistently, is as important as ever; without it, your following will dwindle. But Instagram is used by 1 billion people globally—basically, it’s crowded. Which means even the most mind-blowing content can wallow in obscurity…

Update: Since this issue went to press, both Watches & Wonders and Baselworld canceled the April–May editions of their shows. Watches & Wonders Geneva (the fair formerly known as SIHH) and Baselworld are changing things up in 2020 Big changes are afoot at the jewelry and watch industry’s two most important Swiss fairs. The luxury watch…

WHO, WHAT, WEARABLE Talsam Pendant There are wearable devices designed to track your fitness goals and ones that alert you to texts and phone calls. Talsam—a new wearable that can be worn as a necklace or bracelet—was designed to make you feel loved. Yes, really. The pretty pendant, which comes in a variety of trendy…

Photographed by Franco Rubartelli in 1970 for Vogue, legendary model Veruschka wears a Bulgari necklace starring a 127.35 ct. heart-shape emerald When members of Bulgari’s Heritage Department acquired this sautoir at a 2018 Sotheby’s auction, they learned that the previous owner was a Geneva resident named Patricia Bemberg. To find out more about its provenance,…