Jewellery World News
The jewellery world’s news, read from the bench.
GEM Awards Opens Applications for Its 2027 Grant
Applications are open for the 2027 David Yurman GEM Awards Grant — and its terms describe a particular kind of help. The recipient receives a one-time award of $50,000 (about C$70,000), mentoring meetings with executives at David Yurman and consultative meetings with other industry executives, including a behind-the-scenes tour of the David Yurman workshop and…
De Beers Holds Rough Diamond Prices Steady at Its October Sight
De Beers kept its rough diamond prices unchanged at its October sight in Botswana. Read quickly, that looks like a market holding its level. The details of the week say something plainer. A sight is not an open auction: De Beers sells most of its rough by value to approved contract customers, the sightholders, at…
Platinum Guild International Will Close Its US Office
Platinum Guild International will close its United States office on 31 December 2026, ending a 34-year presence that began in New York in 1992. Japan, South Korea and Hong Kong close in the same restructuring; from 2027, PGI’s dedicated operations continue only in China and India. The numbers do not read as an American collapse.…
The 197.80-Carat Romanov Sapphire Goes to Auction in Geneva
On 11 November, Sotheby’s Geneva will offer a bracelet. The bracelet is the youngest part of the lot by more than a century. At its centre sits a cushion-shaped sapphire of 197.80 carats, from Ceylon, with reports from SSEF and Gübelin recording no indications of heating. The stone was catalogued after the Revolution in the…
GIA Acquires the Koivula Inclusion Collection
An inclusion is usually talked about as a flaw — the thing that lowers a stone’s clarity. In a gem laboratory, the same feature is read the other way: as evidence. GIA has acquired a collection of 2,665 crystals, gems and minerals, each one kept for exactly what is inside it: minerals trapped as the…
