A blooming collection unveiled

Branding partner’s collection

Bright with sparkling Swarovski Zirconia

Rasi Jewellery, Swarovski Gemstones’ Branding Partner, launched its new Blooming Collection with Swarovski Zirconia at the India International jewellery Show (IIJS) in Mumbai, August 9-12. Inspired by nature, and designed for the future, this fresh, eye-catching collection is all set to attract both the young and the young at heart consumer.

Lucapa recovered a 64 carat diamond

Type Ila D-colour gem is considered the best individual diamond recovered to date from the Mothae mine, further underlining the mine’s status as a source of large and premium-value stones, according to Lucapa managing director Stephen Wetherall. “The recovery of this exceptional 64 carat gem also represents a great start to our mining campaign in the higher margin zones in the southern pit at Mothae,” he said.

Lucapa’s commencement of dewatering the southern pit into the main 500,000 cubic metre dam has enabled mining to transition to this higher-margin zone of the kimberlite pipe in the third quarter this year. Mining is scheduled to continue in the southern pit throughout 2019.

18th Gemmological Symposium announces speakers

The Association Française de Gemmologie (the French Association of Gemmology) is releasing information about the subjects to be addressed by the high-level speakers at the 18th Paris Gemmological Rendez Vous. The prestigious annual gems symposium will take place on September 9, 2019, at: l’ASIEM, 6 rue Albert de Lapparent, Paris, France.

GIA Jewelry Career Fair at Carlsbad

Professionals and visitors looking to delve into the world of gems and jewelry are welcome to visit the GIA (Gemological Institute of America) World Headquarters in Carlsbad, California on Friday, Oct. 11, for the GIA Jewelry Career Fair and Open House.

This free event has something for everyone, lively panel discussions, career coaching and recruiting for people new to the industry and professionals looking for a career change; classroom demonstrations for aspiring gemologists, jewelers and jewelry designers; and unique museum exhibits for anyone captivated by the splendor and beauty of gems.

Tanishq launches the Sassy Silver Collection

Mia by Tanishq, one of India’s most-loved jewellery brands today announced the launch of its quirky and stylish, Sassy Silver collection. Mia by Tanishq has introduced a unique silver collection that is feisty, exciting and trendy with edgy designs that celebrates the Women of today.

The Sassy Silver collection is designed for women who love to dress up and aim to stand out. This new collection of Mia by Tanishq enable women to bring alive their bold essence, as they discover a new side to silver; with Sass and Quirk.

A talent hunt for children

Geared up for the biggest kids’ talent hunt in Indore as Reliance Jewels, one of India’s most trusted jewellery brands in India organised Rising Star at Time Story, Indore.

The talent hunt was open to children aged between 5 to 12 years who had taken part in a karaoke activity. The competition held at the Reliance Jewels showroom at the mall. Registration remained free of cost, and participants can walk in along with their parents for chance to perform. The winners of the talent hunt awarded a silver coin each from Reliance Jewels.

Fifty Fathoms Automatique

The Fifty Fathoms is one of Blancpain’s iconic models, and the diver’s watch that has inspired the entire genre since its launch in 1953. Being reinterpreted, the Fifty Fathoms Automatique with a Red Gold Case features a precious case in satin-brushed red gold and, for the first time in the collection, a dial attired in blue ceramic, retaining the sporty and distinguished character of its peers, while adding a touch of chic and high-tech. Through this unique combination of materials and colours, Blancpain achieves a bold double alliance.

Already used by Blancpain in the creation of bezels for its Bathyscaphe models, technical ceramics offers a multitude of advantages. With hardness six times greater than that of steel, it is endowed with exceptional qualities, including remarkable stability and longevity. Despite its complexity to produce and machine, this material has been chosen by Blancpain because of the chromatic depth it serves to achieve.

BDB meets Lin Qiang

SDE members hear of

Benefits of participating in BDW

TGJTA President says members looking forward to attending

BDW due to uncertainty surrounding situation in Hong Kong!

Bharat Diamond Bourse (BDB) President Anoop Mehta and Vice-President Mehul Shah held a highly successful visit to the Shanghai Diamond Exchange (SDE) this week where they explained the benefits of participating in the Bharat Diamond Week (BDW) which takes place at the bourse from October 14 to 16.

The senior BDB officials held discussions with the leadership of the exchange along with more than 20 SDE member companies where they presented the benefits of taking part in the leading global bourse polished diamond sales event.

"We had three full days of talks with a wide variety of members of the SDE who showed great interest in attending the Bharat Diamond Week," said Mehta. "We were delighted with the turnout and the issues that were raised as we explained that visitors will be able to source a huge variety of diamonds both at the Diamond Week and from our other 3,000 member companies."

Shah, who is responsible for the Bharat Diamond Week and organized the two successful polished diamond events held last year, said: "We also had a very good meeting with Lin Qiang, president of the SDE and Vice President of WFDB. Lin Qiang is also the guest of honor at the BDW where he will be attending with a Chinese buyer delegation. We would like to take this opportunity to thank Mr Lin and SDE staff and members for the wonderful hospitality and we look forward to seeing them at the Bharat Diamond Bourse for the Bharat Diamond Week in October.

"Our aim is to increase visitor numbers at each of the Bharat Diamond Week events. With the help of our colleagues at the Shanghai Diamond Exchange, I am sure we will achieve this. China is a hugely important consumer market, and we are very pleased that Chinese diamond and jewellery companies will visit the Bharat Diamond Week and see how Indian diamond firms can fulfil all of their sourcing requirements. In addition, we will also be hosting delegations of foreign buyers from Israel, Dubai, Greece, South Africa, Vietnam and Bangladesh as well as from across India."

He added that he had received a message from Somchai Phornchindarak, President of both of the Gems, Jewelry, and Precious Metal Confederation of Thailand and the Thai Gem and Jewelry Traders Association, regarding the uncertainty of the situation in Hong Kong due to unrest. The September Gem and Jewellery Show is just weeks away. "Looking at the uncertainty in Hong Kong, our members are looking forward to the Bharat Diamond Week at the Bharat Diamond Bourse," Phornchindarak said in a message to Shah.

Meanwhile, Shah said that the number of companies and individuals who have registered for the show is already far ahead of those for the two previous shows which were held in 2018. As with the two previous shows, the BDB will provide selected buyers with complimentary hotel accommodation, with around 150 complementary hotel rooms for foreign buyers. Priority will be given to visitors who are members of bourses affiliated to the World Federation of Diamond Bourses (WFDB), but all members of the diamond trade across the world are welcome to participate.

Each Indian company that wins the right to display at the Bharat Diamond Week is entitled to one booth. Since trading in synthetic or lab-grown diamonds is banned in the BDB, so there will not be any such diamonds traded at the BDW.

Alrosa sells large rough in the US

Alrosa held an international auction for special size rough diamonds (over 10.8 carats) in New York. Reviews of rough diamonds took place at the company’s trade representative office Alrosa USA Inc.

The company sold 99 large gem-quality diamonds weighing 1,532 carats. The total revenue from the sale of stones amounted to $7 million. The auction participants included companies from the United States, Belgium, India, Israel and the UAE.

Tools to enable to source responsibly

All participants in the jewellery and gemstone value chain will need to come to terms with the fact that basic due diligence demonstrating that they are sourcing their supply responsibly is becoming is a regular requirement for doing business, said Gaetano Cavalieri, President of CIBJO, speaking last week in Mumbai. At the same time, he added, the systems being developed must be inclusive, meaning that they cannot discriminate against ethical players because of their size or financial capacity.

The CIBJO President was speaking on August 7, during the opening day of the 2019 Advances in Gem & Diamond Detection Technology (AGDDT) symposium, organised by the Gemmological Institute of India. The event at the Bombay Exhibition Centre preceded the opening of the India International Jewellery Show (IIJS), in which Dr. Cavalieri participated the following day.