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Marriage rates are a record low, forcing the diamond industry, which for decades has relied largely on matrimonial jewelry sales to anchor the market, to rethink the way in which it markets it product. So the term “bridal jewelry” is out, and it is being replaced by the term “commitment jewelry.”
Prices of fancy color diamonds remained largely stable during the third quarter of 2019, reported the Fancy Color Research Foundation (FCRF), whose Fancy Color Diamond Index (FCDI) decreased by a modest 0.5 percent during the three-month period.
Romantic love continues to be the main reason for diamond gifting, reports De Beers in its recently published Insight Report, driving about half of the value of demand in the two largest markets – the United States and China.
De Beers has just released its latest Insight report, in which it provides a comprehensive overview of the diamond and jewelry markets up through the end of 2018. In it, the company reports that consumer demand continued to grow, driven by sustained positive macro-economic fundamentals.
Alrosa, the state-controlled Russian diamond mining company that currently is the world’s leading diamond producer by output, has reported the discovery of a very large rough diamond, weighing more than 232 carats. The company says that it is largest gem-quality rough diamond found in more than three years.
In just one month’s time, on November 28 this year, American with gather together for their traditional Thanksgiving meal. Traditionally held on the final Thursday of the month, it is followed by what popularly has become known as Black Friday, the start of end-of-the-year shopping season.
Expected standards of ethical behavior are increasingly becoming linked to a number of international ethical protocols, which also are applied in other business sectors, writes Tiffany Stevens, President of the CIBJO Ethics Commission in a recently published special report. Ms. Stevens is also President and CEO of the Jewelers Vigilance Committee, the chief legal body representing the U.S. jewelry sector.
“Second-hand” is no longer a dirty word, especially you are between the ages of 15 and 35 and are desperately concerned about the environmental consequences of and out-of-control consumer society.
The Zimbabwe government has said that it is planning to raise rough diamond production in the country to 11 million carats per annum by 2023, from the level of 3.2 million carats in 2018.
October, it appears, will be remembered as a month that is awash in pink. Sotheby’s magnificent Jewels and Jaedite sale proved to be all that it hoped to be, when its top lot, when a Type IIa fancy -pink diamond weighing 10.64 carats in an 18-karat white and rose gold ring with trapeze diamonds sold for $19.9 million.
A Dubai-based diamond company called Nemesis International has presented to the market a 313-carat polished diamond that it says is the largest D-color diamond ever graded by the Gemological Institute of America (GIA).
The effort to distinguish between diamonds mined in nature and those that are man-made has become a major undertaking in the diamond business.
Diamond jewelry is fast become the jewelry item of choice for Chinese consumers born between 1982 and 2000, according to the Lead-Leo Research Institute, as reported by China Daily. This represent a breakaway from traditional buying preferences, in a country where gold has traditionally been associated with wedding and wedding anniversary ceremonies.
The oldest members of the next great jewelry buying generation are only 25 years of age, and its youngest members still 15, writes Jonathan Kendall, in a recently released report by the Marketing and Education Commission of CIBJO, the World Jewelry Confederation.
With September’s massive Hong Kong jewelry show behind it, member of the jewelry trade typically set their sights on the end of the year holiday season, which traditionally kicks off with the Thanksgiving Day weekend in the United States at the end of November. As always, a primary focus is the United States.
Sotheby’s much storied Magnificent Jewels and Jadeite sale in Hong Kong, which this year will take place on October 7, will feature not only one, and not only two, but rather three spectacular diamonds – each one of which would have been the highlight of the sale on its own.
Fluorescence has long been a subject of debate in the diamond industry. Relating to a phenomenon that is evident in about 25 percent to 35 percent of stones, it relates to visible light being emitted by certain diamonds when heir atoms are excited by an external light source.
Despite rumors to the contrary, there was never any real doubt that the world’s largest jewelry trade show, the September Hong Kong Jewellery & Gem Fair, will open its doors as planned, first on September 16, 2019,at the AsiaWorld-Expo (AWE) near the airport, for about 1,700 exhibitors of loose diamonds, colored gemstone, pearls, other jewelry-making materials and machinery, and then on September 18, 2019, at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre in Wan Chai North on Hong Kong Island, for about 2,000 finished jewelry.
Despite the mounting trade war between the United States and China, Alibaba, the Chinese online ecommerce giant, continues to bet that its countrymen’s appetite for foreign goods is not waning. The company has just announced that it is spending $2 billion to acquire Kaola, its largest rival in the online sales of imported goods.
Uncertainty about the state of the Chinese market, and in particular Hong Kong, has gripped the diamond industry in recent days, soon before many plan to head out for what in recent years is recognized as the world’s large jewelry trade fair, the September Hong Jewellery & Gem Fair.
After the brief summer sojourn, the diamond and jewelry markets geared up as they do each year at the beginning of September, as the countdown to the critical end-of-the-year selling season began.
An announcement in May 2015 that De Beers was set to revive its mythological catchphrase “a diamond is forever” sent a palpable wave of excitement through the gemstone trade. The expression, which was named “Slogan of the Century” by Advertising Age in 1999, is considered by many to be the expression that launched a multi-billion dollar luxury industry.
Introduced by the Gemological Institute of America (GIA), the 4Cs is the universally grading system, whose underlying premise is that the value of a polished diamond is decided by its respective scores for carat, clarity, color and cut. But do they represent an adequate number of criteria to provide the definitive price of any given stone? Not so says gemologist Renée Newman, writing in Jewellery Business, a Canadian trade publication, in an article entitled “Diamond Evolution: Why the 4Cs is no longer an adequate pricing system – Jewellery Business.”
It has been a basic in maxim in the diamond business for decades: fashions come and go, with what is “in” one year being “out” the next. But one thing remains constant – young people fall in love and get married. And when they do, they buy diamonds.
One of the key jewelry markets to watch over the coming months is that of the United Kingdom. With an estimated annual value of £3.3bn at the end of 2018, it nonetheless is being rocked by incidents not of its making, with the most prominent being Brexit. No wonder then that the country’s most important jewelry show, International Jewellery London (IJL), is one of the industry’s most keenly anticipated events. This year, it will be held September 1 to 3.