Sotheby’s has named Stewart Young as senior director and head of the Asia jewelry department at Sotheby’s, succeeding Regine Ngan. Young will be based in Hong Kong, where he will lead the team across ...

A 6.03-carat blue-diamond ring is likely to fetch as much as CHF 9.5 million ($12.2 million) at an upcoming Sotheby’s sale in Geneva. The ring centers a cushion-shaped, fancy-vivid-blue, internally ...

The National Diamond Council (NDC) has appointed Susie Dewey as its chief marketing officer, in an effort to strengthen its global presence. In her new role, Dewey will lead the international ...

KP Sanghvi & Sons has announced the introduction of DiaDNA, a next-generation diamond traceability technology designed to deliver verifiable, end-to-end transparency across the supply chain — without ...

Prices of polished diamonds passing through Antwerp began a gradual recovery in the first quarter, rising 12% year on year. While the price of rough fell 27% over the same period, down to $72 per ...

Current and former members of the diamond industry are vying to acquire the miner. How will the sale impact the market? Apart from “A Diamond Is Forever,” beacon campaigns, marketing, research, ...

Doug Hucker has retired as CEO of the International Colored Gemstone Association (ICA), following a nearly four-year tenure. Hucker, who departed with immediate effect, saw the ICA through its ...

Christie’s will offer the Ocean Dream, the largest existing blue-green diamond, at its upcoming Geneva jewelry sale, expecting it will fetch up to CHF 10 million ($12.8 million). Set in a ring, the ...

Sales at Chow Tai Fook fell slightly in the fourth fiscal quarter, even as increased demand in Hong Kong offset weakness in China. “The fourth quarter unfolded amid heightened external uncertainties ...

In haute joaillerie and horology, precision is not a detail; it is the keystone upon which everything depends. Every stone must perform with absolute consistency. Achieving this reliably requires more ...

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Every year, we talk about jewelry trends as if they exist in a vacuum — shapes, stones, silhouettes, colors. But trends don’t appear out of nowhere. They are responses to culture and emotion. They are ...