31
Jan
The LMS-650SE is capable of doing a transparent, invisible inscription on both the table and the girdle of a diamond
A new marking system capable of producing a transparent, invisible inscription on both the table and the girdle of a diamond has been introduced by PhotoScribe Technologies, Inc, the company announced Thursday.
31
Jan
A new Unity Marketing Luxury Tracking Study, which looked into 2009’s fourth quarter consumer and retails trends, noted a marked improvement in consumer sentiment among affluent consumers.
Affluent consumers are defined as those at the top 20% of household income. The survey spanned some 1,614 affluent consumers.
Early 2010 figures show that the Luxury Consumption Index (LCI), [...]
31
Jan
Suashish Diamonds Limited net sales more than doubled in the third fiscal quarter ending December 31, 2009, the diamond and jewelry company reported to the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE). Suashish saw sales rise to $67.4 million (INR 3.12 billion) during the three months, compared with $31.1 million (INR 1.44 billion) in the same period a [...]
31
Jan
After decades of speculation, the truth can now be told: The famed Hope Diamond and its chief rival, the Wittelsbach-Graff Diamond, were not cut from the same stone, according to a group of scientists led by Jeffrey Post, curator of the National Gem Collection at the Smithsonian Institution.
WASHINGTON — After decades of speculation, the [...]
28
Jan
A 71-year-old man working in a jewelry store on Manhattan’s upscale Madison Avenue was shot to death in a brazen midday robbery, and police were still seeking the killer Wednesday afternoon, according to news reports. The incident happened at R.S. Durant at about 12:25 p.m. when a man believed to be in his 30s, [...]
28
Jan
Diamond is the hardest object on earth, strong enough to slice through glass and steel.
Surprisingly, very little is known about its strength under extreme conditions. But Lawrence Livermore National Lab (LLNL) scientists proved that diamond becomes even stronger during rapid compression.
Shock waves applied
Using the Janus laser at LLNL and the Omega laser at the University [...]
28
Jan
FARMINGTON — - He was smooth and believable, police said, and built a rapport with jewelry store employees.
But while they were distracted by other customers, he replaced three of the store’s diamonds with cubic zirconia fakes, police said. The loss to Monarch Jewelers: $36,000.
Police on Wednesday released surveillance camera photos of the con man’s face [...]
28
Jan
Kochi: ‘Diamonds are a woman’s best friend’, goes the adage, and the fairer sex in Kerala seem to agree, increasingly preferring trendy delicate diamond jewellery to heavy gold ornaments due to soaring prices of the yellow metal.
The diamond jewellery business has seen about 30% growth in sales in 2009-10 fiscal, top jewellers in Kerala say.
Industry [...]
28
Jan
Both polished and rough stones will be bought and sold in country’s first facility
Canada is set to open its first official diamond trading marketplace in downtown Toronto, a move spurred by the rush in recent years to mine and market the homegrown stones both nationally and worldwide.
The Diamond Bourse of Canada opens Monday and will [...]
26
Jan
A new survey indicates China is set to become the top luxury market
Chinese citizens “aspire to” luxury brands and can increasingly afford them, a survey by The Boston Consulting Group of 2,550 Chinese consumers found. The survey, taken last year at the height of the global economic crisis, was released Thursday.
Chinese consumers with a [...]
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