Colored-Diamonds guide produced by JVC, NCDIA

Its a good week for the jewellers who were waiting for some sort of standard guidance on colored diamonds,as The Jewelers Vigilance Committee (JVC) and the Natural Color Diamond Association (NCDIA) have released “The Essential Guide to the U.S. Trade in Color Diamonds,” this week.
There are many queries from the industry about the laws governing [...]

Colored-Diamonds guide produced by JVC, NCDIA

Its a good week for the jewellers who were waiting for some sort of standard guidance on colored diamonds,as The Jewelers Vigilance Committee (JVC) and the Natural Color Diamond Association (NCDIA) have released “The Essential Guide to the U.S. Trade in Color Diamonds,” this week.
There are many queries from the industry about the laws governing [...]

Luxury goods Tax to increase in New York

The new proposal of New York Governor, David Paterson, for the state budget comes as a disappointment to most of the luxury good buyers. He proposed a $21.1 billion budget, thus increasing 5% sales tax on luxury goods that cost above $20,000 which would also include Jewelry.
The purchases of aircraft’s which costs more than $500,000; [...]

Obama gifts his wife a rhodium and Diamond Ring

Barrack Obama the new President of United States is gifting his wife Michelle Obama the costliest gift ever for participating and helping Obama in his campaign. Obama is gifting her ,a diamond and rhodium ring.
Rhodium is supposed to be costlier than gold and platinum and usually rhodium is used in jewelries that use white gold [...]

Pearls: The irresistable part of Jewelry

Pearls are the most elegant when it comes to jewelry selection. People with sophisticated life styles prefer wearing pearl jewelry rather than stone jewelry that’s because the color of pearl that is white indicates sophistication. Women love pearls for its beautiful look and usually working women love wearing them because of it stylish yet elegant [...]

DDE offers new Services, Expands its Global market

In order to improve its visibility in Middle East and other parts of the world, Dubai Diamond Exchange (DDE) decided to come up with new suite services which would start in January, coming year.
Youri Steverlynck, the CEO of DDE, said in an interview with Myjewelpack that DDE would hold monthly Polished Sales, like the Mini [...]

Gold investment is the safest investment today

Gold has always been the safest investment in the history of financial dealings. With the recent financial crisis, many people are opting to rather invest their money in gold, than in any other investment.
The logic is pretty simple. Gold always retains its value, irrespective of whether the world around it is financially high or low. [...]

De Beers opens its 9th store in California, US

After the three new stores that opened in Dallas, Honolulu and San francisco; De Beers opened another new store, this time at south coast plaza in orange county, california.
This new store would be the 9th US store opened by De Beers. The store is a huge place accomodating VIP section for private presentations, sleek glass [...]

Gold Pendants to be designed by Top celebrities for Charity

Taking a step further into charity, top celebrities in Jewelry world would make an effort in giving unique jewelry designs for charity purposes. The world Gold council, popularly known as WGC, said that all the A listed celebrities would take part in this initiative.
This event has been named as “leaves of change” and will begin [...]

Jewelry Market dips, Drop in sale of high end jewelry

The financial crisis has put the jewelry market into an empty zone with loads of products. With more and more consumers preferring to spend money on fuel and food, jewelry business has seen a decline in the latest market report.
The luster of Jewelry market is lost and most of the companies are relying on the [...]

Two fake diamond grading reports unearthed, GIA confirms

Earlier this week, lucerene, the Switzerland based Gubelin Gem Laboratory had sent an email alerting that they had in their possession a stone that can be described as suspected forgery. This news spread rapidly until an action was taken.
This alert made by the European Laboratory about the suspected forged stone and hence counterfeit GIA report [...]

Wedding Rings? No more a hard decision!