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UPDATE
Harry Winston
Harry Winston Diamond Corporation
entered into an opinion agreement with North Arrow Minerals Inc. and Springbo Holdings Inc. for the development of the Lac de Gras properties in the Northwest Territories.......
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FACE TO FACE
Jewelry Trade Center
Henry Ho, Jewelry Trade Center's (JTC) Executive Director, reveals that the JTC will concentrate on establishing and development good relationship with entrepreneurs of India and China due to the stuggish American market.......
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BULLETIN
TGJTA held press conference
The Thai Gem and Jewelry Traders Association (TGJTA) held a press conference for the 48th edition of the Bangkok Gems & Jewelry Fair (BGJF) at the Grand Balloon of Bangkok's Shangri-La Hotel........
De Beers report exceptional sales
The De Beers Group recently released its interim results for the six month period ending 30 June, 2011. Sales during the period have been exceptional, the Group said, driven mainly by continued growth in the Middle East, Indian and Asian retail markets and their impact on rough price growth. De Beers said it has continued to focus on efficiency improvements and on maintaining a lower sustainable level of overhead base, which has resulted in a favourable impact on the bottom line.....
Decent group
More than years that "SWISS STAR®" machine cut CZ has been launched in market, remains its high top quality, and again assuring the perfection by Decent Group..........
Top jewellery brands failing customers
Top jewellery brands are failing to meet the growing expectations of customers for ethical sourcing of metals and gemstones, thereby providing oppotunities for new brands to emerage, according to an independent report. Published by fair jewelry action, a non-profit organisation promoting fairly traded jewelry, and strategy advisers Lifeworth Consulting, the report benchmarks ten prestigious jewellery brands on their performance with innovations in the ethical sourcing of precious metal and gemstones, and finds them significantly laggging behind, with the exceptions of Cartier and Boucheron, which are recognised for taking useful steps. The research also found that six of the ten brands offered to sell Burmese rubies from the shop floor in London or Geneva boutiques last year, despite an EU embargo.........
The U.S. revised jewelry sales data
New government data has boosted the size of the U.S. jewelry industry by about 5 percent, restoring it to its former level of $65 million in the peak sales year of 2007.....
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Tim Bourne
Sotheby's has announced the appointment of Tim Bourne as Worldwide Head of its Watches department. Mr.Bourne will be based in Hong Kong, overseeing Sotheby's Asia watch auctions in addition to those in Geneva, New York and London. This marks a strategic move in response to the rapid expansion of the auction market for watches worldwide, especially in Asia.
TAG Heuer
Swiss watch brand TAG Heuer celebrates "150 years of Motor Racing" in 2011, extends its savoir-faire to the leading edge of 21st century communication technology by presenting the TAG Heuer LINK, the first Swiss luxury touchscree smart phone, operating on Android........
Higher allocations to gold
Independent analysis by Oxford EConomics suggests that gold's share of an optimal portfolio is around 5% in a base long-term economic scenario featuring 2.25% growth and 2% annual inflation. The optimal allocation rises in a more inflationary long-run scenario and also does so for more risk-averse investors in a scenario in a scenario featuring weaker growth and low inflation....
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FASHION
Kuwayama unveils new collections
Kuwayama Corporation (Kuwayama), the leading jewellery manufacturer in Japan, has presented its latest jewellery collection for 2011. This year's Kuwayama highlights are the flowery "Chiffon Garden" line and the brand new "Arabesque" collections. Both collections are diffusion lines of Kuwayama's award-winning jewellery pieces which incorporate the company's distinctive jewellery pieces which incorporate the company's distinctive designing skills and extraordinary craftsmanship. As an international jewellery manufacturer, Kuwayama hopes to expands its worldwide presence by introducing its products to a larger international customer base......
de GRISOGONO
Over the centuries, jewellery has been a symbol of power, passion, and love and one of the finest forms of artistic expression. Yet not just anyone can become an artist. Harmony, a sense of beauty, propotions and colour, are all innate gifts that cannot be taught. Fawaz Gruosi, founder of de GRISOGONO, is endowed with an exceptional feel for gems, using his imagination to exalt them. Over the years, he has succeeded in passing on his passion to a small circle of dedicated goldsmiths, gemsetters and craftsmen.....
French jewellers
Sixteen French watch, jewelry, and high jewellery manufacturers representing some forty brands will attend September 2011 Hong Kong fairs where global buyers will be able to discover their sparking new designs and creations.....
Kenzo of Paris
The Kenzo house opened its doors in 1970 in Paris, in the Vivienne Gallery, just a few steps from the Palais Royal. Its designer-founder, Kenzo Takada, quickly became one of the great precursors of the seventies, creating a style and philosophy which, 40 years later, still remain fresh and unique. He charms us with his colourful, bright, poetic, fresh creations.....
Cammilli presents Aqua
Cammilli's 2011 creative concept explores new forms of expression inspired by Nature and water. Collections rise with beautiful and original floral shapes, gold strips, and threads either laying one upon the other or just sinuously moving, as to evoke the sea waves. Petals facing upwards with central parts and extremities of great light, masterpieces suggesting sea flowers and plants, like anemones, beaches, atolls, and finally a lot of colour, where the exclusive Cammilli colours of gold combine with stones of different shades and colours thus creating original new tones, and enamel with strong colours....
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TALKABOUT
Emeralds for Elephants migrates to india
The World Land Trust and ethical coloured gemstones mining company. Gemfields, together with Jaguar Land Rover and the Gemological Institute of America (GIA India), have collaborated with ten of India's top jewellery designers to create a unique 'popup' collection of bespoke Zambian emerald jewellery. Following the success of "Emeralds for Elephants " in London in the summer of 2010, the aim of this collection is to create awareness and raise crucial funds for the conservation initiatives of Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) for the Asian Elephant in india......
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SCENE
JWR Magazine congratulates the - TGJTA
Recently, Thai Gem and Jewelry Trades Association (TGJTA) held its annual general meeting at Grand Ballon, Shangri-la Hotel to elect the new Board of Directions for fiscal year 2011-2013, and thirty-three directors have been chosen by the association's members for the new Board. Under the election Sub-committee, the directors have held a meeting to select the president and the executive board.......
Siam Paragon Watch Expo 2011
Bangkok's Siam Paragon Shopping center stagged the grand opening of the major watch exhibition of the year "Siam Watch Expo 2011," from over 200 world class watch brands and a selection of more than 30,000 watches. The event took place from July 20-9 August 2011 at Watch Hall Expo, Watch Boutique, M Floor and 1st Fllor Siam Paragon, and Watch Department, Paragon Department Store......
Mercedes-Benz fashion week swim presents international line-up of designers at Miami
For the seventh year, thousands of fashion industry professionals migrated to the sands of Miami Beach to see what was in store for the swimwear industry in 2012 at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Swim. The activities began with a sizzling runway show by Diesel and a not-to-be-missed kick-off party. A DJ, SKYY ® Vodka bar, and a special surprise musical guest on the iconic Raleigh pool deck ushered in the week of shows and events .....
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FAIR REVIEW
Malaysia international jewellry fair (MIJF) 2011
Malaysia International Jewellery Fair (MIJF), the Malaysia's largest jewellery fair is consistently positioned as an ultimate trading platform, held on July 7 to 10 at one of the most well-known trade hubs in Southeast Asia - Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, along with their first international jewellery design competition, MIJF Jewellery Design Awards.....
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JEWEL
Musuem of Fine Arts, Boston, to open new gallery dedicated to jewelry
As the saying goes, "diamonds are a girl's best friend" - at least in modern times - but as the exhibition "Jewels, Gem, and Treasures: Ancient to Modern" illustrates, ornaments made of ivory, shell, and rock crystal were prized in antiquity, while jewelry made of diamonds, emeralds, sapphires, rubies, and pearls became fashionable in later years......
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TIMEZONE
Purple & Rose-gold color theme
Since its first watch collection was launched at Baselworld in 2009, Swarovski has created exceptional time-pieces that are full of character. These include the "D:Light" watch, winner of the 2010 Red Dot Award for Best Product Design and now available as a Limited Edition in rose-gold; and the "Elis", in purple, a color trend feature in Swarovski 's Fashion and Jewelry collections for Fall/Winter 2011-2012....
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INNOVATIONS
Delcam gives free online
ArtCAM also provides a library of relief clipart that can be added to any piece of jewellery. If the design requires more than one piece of artwork, these can all be opened simultaneously, resized and repositioned as required prior to committing to the design.....
AUCTION
Antiquorum reports outstanding results for its Hong Kong sale
Antiquorum's final sale for the first half of 2011 was held recently at the Mandarin Oriental Hong Kong. The auction totaled HKD$42,647,000. In addition to the strong in-room attendance, there were many telephone and internet bidders, with international participation coming from Europe, the US, Japan, Thailand, Singapore, South Africa, the Russian Federation, and Australia.......
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