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| How A Custom Jewelry Builder Can Boost Sales If you’re an online jeweler and you want to see more traffic and sales, it helps to connect with the tools that can make that happen. Traffic usually doesn’t just come from luck or magic. You have to align with industry tools and strategies that create a memorable online experience so that visitors keep coming back and spread the word to friends. It especially helps to offer custom jewelry builder tools. Read More
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Diamond in the Ruff: Dog Eats $16K Ring Diamonds.net July 18 When Charlie Jackson and his wife Carol noticed her $16,000 (GBP 12,000) engagement ring was missing, and saw the accompanying wedding ring strewn on the floor, it was soon obvious what had happened. |
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Dominion Diamond Corp Acquired by Washington Corps for $1.2Bn IDEX July 17 After months of rumors, Dominion Diamond Corporation announced that The Washington Companies, a group of privately held North American mining, industrial and transportation businesses founded by industrialist and entrepreneur Dennis R. Washington, |
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Signet Gets New CEO, Replacing Mark Light JCK July 17 Signet has selected board member Virginia “Gina” C. Drosos as its new CEO, effective August 1, replacing company veteran Mark Light. Light, 55, who has served as CEO since 2014, decided to retire after 35 years with the company due to unspecified health reasons, |
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| Congratulations Reiner’s Fine Jewelry on Your New Website!
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HRD Antwerp Discovers Topaz Disguised as Rough Diamonds |
| The Diamond Loupe |
July 17 |
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| Last week, a leading diamond grading and certification lab HRD Antwerp detected two large topaz stones fashioned to imitate rough diamonds in an apparent attempt to fool a trader. "Two large, near-colourless rough stones weighing 50.08 and 38.18 ct were submitted to our research department to determine their quality," HRD's statement reads. |
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The 10 Most-Read Stories of 2017 So Far National Jeweler July 18 Well, in the retail world, there has been a wave of store closures rivaling the level reached during the Great Recession. Every day it seems like there’s a new retailer that goes Chapter 11--The Limited, RadioShack, Payless ShoeSource, BCBG Max Azria and Gymboree are just a few of the chains that have filed for |
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How to choose an engagement ring to suit your hand shape The Jewellery Editor July 18 Choosing the right engagement ring for your hand and finger shape from the dizzying array of designs on offer can be likened to finding the most figure-flattering pair of jeans. The flares that look amazing on your friend with legs up to her armpits can make those of us not blessed with |
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Why society ladies are spending thousands on fake jewels NEW YORK POST July 17 Harriette Rose Katz recently commissioned her jeweler to make a 32-inch diamond pavé link necklace and matching bracelet. But the sparklers, which together cost $14,000, aren’t real diamonds: They’re cubic zirconia. |
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| The Most Advanced Web Technology for Jewelers |
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Tennis ball-sized 'diamond in the rough' too big to sell |
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| In the mysterious world of diamond mining, it turns out that some stones are too big to sell. Canada's Lucara Diamond Corp will have to cut its tennis ball-sized rough diamond to find a buyer, industry insiders say, following Sotheby's failed auction for the world's largest uncut stone last summer.
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How Omega's Speedmaster 'Moonwatch' made space history |
| The Jewellery Editor |
July 16 |
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| If we can talk about celebrities in the watch world, Omega’s Speedmaster takes the cake. Celebrating its 60th anniversary of uninterrupted life on Earth, and 48 years since it first landed on the Moon, the Speedmaster has not lost an inch of its gravitational pull since it was spotted on Buzz Aldrin’s wrist in the epic Moon landing of July 1969.
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