Jewellery World News

“The Art of Transformation: The Jewelry of Mark Schneider” opened on Saturday, November 7 at the Lizzadro Museum of Lapidary Art in Oak Brook, Illinois, and runs through April 4, 2027. The exhibition brings together 40 one-of-a-kind pieces by Mark Schneider, guest curated by Elyse Zorn Karlin, and it is organised around the way Schneider…

The Gem-A Conference ran in London on November 7 and 8, and its programme was built around research: presentations on stones whose names carry precise technical meanings, and on what happens when those meanings are tested against new material. Two of the headline addresses turned on the same discipline — a name in gemmology is…

Two honours inside the 2026 AGTA Spectrum & Cutting Edge Awards worked to a narrower brief than the main categories — and that narrowness is what makes them interesting. Platinum Honors judged one metal: more than 60 platinum pieces set with coloured stones or pearls. Best Use of Platinum and Color went to Roland Krainz…

The forecasts for the 2026 holiday season agree on the headline, and then qualify it. The National Retail Federation expects sales up 4.2 percent, past a trillion dollars for the first time. Mastercard expects 5.5 percent. Bain expects 4.5 percent, Deloitte 4.0 to 4.8. Different windows, different methods — and one shared admission: about half…

A diamond waiting on its report in December is a diamond that cannot be sold for Christmas. GIA’s holiday promotion is built on that bottleneck. From November 9 to December 15, stones submitted to GIA’s New York and Carlsbad laboratories can be graded and returned the next day at no extra charge — a promotion…

INSTORE asked more than 500 independent jewellers how 2026 actually went. Two answers pull in opposite directions. Lab-grown diamonds have stopped spreading. In 2016, 10 percent of jewellers sold them; by 2022 it was 90 percent; this year, 92 percent. The category is installed. What sells it now is price — 52 percent of respondents…

A jewellery store that opened in 1890 is closing — not because the business failed, but because the family line at its bench has run out. M. Lemp Jewelers of Syracuse, New York, is holding its closing sale from today, November 6. Don Lemp, the fourth-generation owner, is retiring, and there is no family successor…

NYC Jewelry Week returns November 16–22, and this year the theme is the work itself: Craftsmanship. The ninth edition is the largest yet — more than 175 events across New York City and online. The new part is not the scale. For the first time, the programme includes live bench demonstrations: makers showing the process…

On DiamondTok, loose diamonds are auctioned in livestreams that can close in as little as 20 seconds. TikTok has now tightened the rules around those sales — and it is worth noticing exactly what it chose to tighten. Since October 26, loose diamonds are a restricted, invite-only category on TikTok Shop in the United States.…

Diamond prices fell in October — unevenly, and for a reason that is about supply, not disappearing buyers. Rapaport’s RAPI index of asking prices fell 5.5% for 0.30-carat rounds and 2.3% for 0.50-carat stones, after a late-September peak. The 0.30-carat index is still up 8.8% this year. Listings of those small rounds rose 165% between…