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Wednesday, April 5, 2017

CORONET® AND REENA AHLUWALIA INTRODUCES ‘CORONET BY REENA’ JEWELRY COLLECTION AT BASELWORLD

    CORONET® AND REENA AHLUWALIA INTRODUCES ‘CORONET BY REENA’
JEWELRY COLLECTION AT BASELWORLD

  • Hong Kong’s Top Brand Coronet® collaborates with internationally renowned jewelry designer and diamond painter Reena Ahluwalia to launch CORONET BY REENA diamond collection

  • Additional to the diamond collection, on exclusive view will be Reena Ahluwalia’s 4-feet hyper-realistic Coronet® diamond painting.

Hong Kong’s top brand Coronet® of Aaron Shum Jewelry Ltd. is known for innovation and exquisite craftsmanship. In the past two editions of Baselworld, Coronet® presented the Coronet Diamond Guitar and Coronet Gemstone Guitar, the two Guinness World Records setting artifacts that inspired imagination.



This year, Coronet® is proud to unveil their partnership with award-winning Canadian jewelry designer and painter, Reena Ahluwalia, by launching ‘Coronet By Reena Ahluwalia’ line.



‘Inner Brilliance’ – a ‘Coronet By Reena Ahluwalia’ diamond jewelry collection premiered in Baselworld. The collection captures the essence of the patented Coronet setting that ensembles seven round brilliants with an elevated center diamond set without prongs, creating effect of one grand solitaire. The highlighted design element in Reena's story is a pointer that points to the true center of our being - our inner brilliance. A constant reminder to stay connected to what's most valuable to us, including pillars of our personal values - our Family, Friendship, Love, Passion, Health and Dreams. Along with the pointer design element that draws attention to the center Coronet setting, the jewelry pieces also rotate on central axis, creating a mesmerizing effect.



Aaron Shum, founder of Coronet and President of Aaron Shum Jewelry, commented, “With our continuous endeavors to breakthrough in design and technology, Coronet differentiates itself as the trend setter of the industry and this year, we are happy to further the collaboration with jewelry designer and diamond painter, Reena Ahluwalia, by launching a collection of jewelry that inspires the realignment of personal values and allowing our inner brilliance to shine through.”



The ‘Inner Brilliance’ collection comes in colorless diamonds and also in rubies and diamonds combination. There are 21 SKUs available in 18K white, rose and yellow gold. The collection consists of necklace, pendant, earrings and rings. By nature of the patented Coronet setting (where for example, 0.30ct. is able to achieve a look of 1.00ct. solitaire), the collection has a decidedly voluminous multiple-carat look, yet is affordable for self-purchasers.  


Along with the jewelry collection, a Baselworld exclusive was Reena Ahluwalia’s 4-feet, hyper-realistic Coronet Diamond Painting that showcases the true beauty and unique characteristics of Coronet® patented diamond setting.

Reena Ahluwalia said, “The ‘Inner Brilliance’ collection is all about self-expression, deep emotional connection to our personal values and a reminder to stay connected to what’s most valuable to us’.


ABOUT CORONET®
Coronet® is the signature brand of Aaron Shum Jewelry. With its worldwide patented design, each piece of Coronet® made from 7 high caliber diamonds set WITH NO PRONGS holding the center diamond, along with precision of cut, symmetry and polish, which attribute to the best fit proportion to conceiving a luminous solitaire diamond effect yet at exceptionally competitive value. Thus, this patented Coronet® technique stands out above any other similar products on the market.

To their pride and joy, Coronet® had received the Hong Kong Top Brand Awards in 2010, and it is the first and only jewelry product brand in the history of Hong Kong industry winning this prestigious award. Besides, it had won the Hong Kong Famous Brand Award in 2012 and Hong Kong Star Brand Award in 2013 respectively.

Throughout the past years, Coronet® has established a global reach of over 1000 POS. In 2015, the Coronet® diamond guitar set with more than 400 carat of diamonds on 1.6kg of 18k gold was verified as the world’s Most Valuable Guitar by Guinness World Records; in the consecutive year, Coronet® collaborated with Hollywood superstar Jermaine Jackson in creating “Circles of Life”, a Fender bass set with 16033 jewels, and attained the Guinness World Records “Most Jewels on Guitar” title.


ABOUT REENA AHLUWALIA
Reena Ahluwalia is a multiple award-winning Canadian jewelry designer and painter. Coveted internationally by jewelry and art collectors, she is recognized as one of the Top Masters of Jewelry Design in Canada. Along with creating jewelry with deep meaning and symbolism, Reena is a strategy adviser and design consultant to some of the top diamond and jewelry houses. Her career highlights include being one of handful of living jewelry artists whose work is featured on a postage stamp. She designed a historic diamond piece for the Legislature of Ontario (Canada) with De Beers Canada. Reena created the inaugural collection for India's Rio Tinto Bunder Mine, diamonds found 100 years after the Golconda mines depleted. As a tribute to the Royal Wedding, Reena created a Diamond Tiara for HRH Kate Middleton with Royal Asscher Diamonds, company that cut the largest diamond ever found, the fabled Cullinan Diamond.

As an accomplished painter, Reena paints highly nuanced, hyperrealistic diamonds with ultra-magnified facets, exploring their hypnotic depths. In Reena's paintings diamonds have stories and soul. She showcases her paintings in a select few exhibits, most recently at the prestigious Art Miami Fair. Reena's artwork benefits 'Jewelers For Children' (JFC) charity, to help children who are the victim of catastrophic illness or life-threatening abuse and neglect.

Friday, March 31, 2017

Spring Cleaning Your Favorite Spring & Summer Gems via Chan Luu (Infographic)

Cleaning most faceted gem jewelry is no real mystery most is easily accomplished using warm soapy water and a soft brush....but what about those softer opaque gems.



It is Spring and we are pulling out our Turquoise, well thanks to the fabulous Jewelry Designer Chan Luu we have a beautiful new resource.




See the latest from Chan Luu:   https://www.chanluu.com

Wednesday, March 29, 2017

Successful 2nd Annual Jewelry Industry Summit Closes....

via the Jewelry Industry Summit Website

2017 Final Summit Report

Firstly, we want to thank everyone that attended for making the second Jewelry Industry Summit a success! Nearly 150 people from 14 different countries came together to continue the work begun in New York in March of 2016, to take collective action towards strengthening our sustainable and responsible supply chain.



The goals of the second Summit included the development of a shared vision for key segments of the industry supply chain that support the broader industry vision for sustainable business and responsible sourcing.  Another important goal was to develop practical tools and strategies that are easily accessible, allowing businesses to make progress through continuous improvement.

Building on existing efforts and generating new initiatives, participants at the Second Jewelry Industry Summit engaged in dynamic and innovative ways to make their mark on the responsible jewelry movement. The initiatives created touch on a broad range of the jewelry supply chain and reflect the creative ways that anyone can participate in advancing the Summit mission, including some of the following:
  • The Small Jeweler Ethical Toolkit: A virtual toolkit to aid small jewelers in understanding the issues and existing standards in the jewelry industry. It also aims to provide resources and tools to help small jewelers on their ethical journey.
  • Sales Associate and Consumer Training: Getting the message out! This initiative exists to provide training and knowledge on responsible practices for retail associates in the jewelry industry. By educating those selling the products, the message and story of responsible jewelry can be further disseminated to consumers and the public.
  • The Bahia Golden Rutilated Quartz Mine to Market Sustainability Model: A model to guide sustainable development in mining, environmental stewardship, value-added activity, parallel activity in organic agriculture, and geo-ag tourism. This model highlights and exemplifies the positive global impacts made possible by committing to responsible and ethical jewelry practices.
Many existing and new Initiatives are well on their way to impacting widespread positive change within the industry, and if you're not yet involved, please contact us at jewelryindustrysummit@gmail.com to find out how you can lend support. These Initiatives will be implemented throughout the coming year by a group of industry volunteers energized by their attendance at the Summit who are committed to ensuring that these projects succeed!
[To read the full report, click on the image below.]

Saturday, March 25, 2017

#JWLV NEW Date Patterns Announced for JCK 2017 Las Vegas Show #JCKLV

From a Press Release

NEW Date Patterns Announced for

JCK 2017 Las Vegas Show 


As previously announced to their customers, JCK and LUXURY will shift their date pattern in 2017. The shift is due to the Shavuot Holiday which is observed by several hundred of JCK's and LUXURY's customers. LUXURY will open Friday, June 2 – Sunday, June 4 to invited retailers then continue to all retailers with the opening of JCK Las Vegas on Monday, June 5 – Thursday, June 8 at Mandalay Bay Convention Center. 
These dates are a shift to the traditional day pattern of years past. LUXURY will now open on Friday, June 2 and continue through the weekend as JCK opens on Monday, June 5 and closes on Thursday, June 8.
"First and foremost we wanted to acknowledge and respect our community of observers," commented Yancy Weinrich, Senior Vice President of Reed Jewelry Group. "Additionally, in our conversations with retailers there was support for moving off of Memorial Day weekend, which we hope will allow those with scheduling conflicts around the holiday weekend to attend."

Moshe Klein, Director of Sales of Julius Klein commented on his overwhelming support for the date shift. "As a long time exhibitor at LUXURY, we appreciate the thoughtful decision the JCK Events team made in order to accommodate observing the holiday of Shavuot. The new date pattern will allow the Jewish community that participates to observe the holiday without taking away from the important business that happens at JCK. We look forward to having a successful show and believe the date shift is a refreshing reminder that at JCK, it's not just business, it's personal. We have already seen overwhelming support behind this decision from our staff and many customers."

The 2017 schedule includes:

LUXURY

Friday, June 2 – Thursday, June 8, 2017
(by invitation only June 2 - June 4)

Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino
For more information, visit: jckonline.com/luxury


JCK Las Vegas

Monday, June 5 – Thursday, June 8, 2017
Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino
For more information, visit: jckonline.com/lasvegas

Swiss Watch

Sunday, June 4 – Tuesday, June 6, 2017
Mandalay Bay Suites
For more information, visit: jckonline.com/swisswatch


AGTA GEMFAIR

Sunday, June 4 – Thursday, June 8, 2017
Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino
For more information, visit: www.agta.com

JIS Exchange

Monday, June 5 – Thursday, June 8, 2017
Tropicana Las Vegas
For more information, visit: jisshow.com/exchange
For more information or to register for JCK's future events, visit: reedjewelrygroup.com.


About JCK:  JCK is a trusted partner connecting jewelry retailers and manufacturers/suppliers with trends, news, products, education, and partners to build business. Whether attending face-to-face events, building inventory with online and onsite sourcing, or obtaining authoritative news and insights from JCK Magazine — the leading industry publication in print & online - JCK offers a suite of tools and events to deliver sound solutions, innovative opportunities, and essential information. For more information on JCK Events, visit reedjewelrygroup.com.

Wednesday, March 22, 2017

April 5th - WJA Boston and Harvard Museum Host "Do Diamonds Matter?" #WJA #Diamonds

From Press Release

WJA Boston and Harvard Museum 
Host Panel Discussion on Diamonds on April 5

"Do Diamonds Matter?" 
features a distinguished group of scientists and industry experts


The Women's Jewelry Association's Boston chapter, in collaboration with the Mineralogical & Geological Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, is hosting a special event, "Do Diamonds Matter?" on April 5, from 6-9 pm. The panel discussion will take place in the museum's auditorium at 24 Oxford St., adjacent to the Harvard Museum of Natural History. Including a range of internationally known experts representing the diamond industry, museums, and academia, the panel will explore the future of the world's hardest precious stone. The discussion, which includes a Q&A session, begins at 6 pm, with a reception to follow at 7:30 pm.


Gems, jewels, and specimen from the collection of Mineralogical & Geological Museum, Harvard University. 

Photo courtesy of the museum.

Among the experts on the panel are: Raquel Alonso-Perez, Ph.D., FGA, curator of the Mineralogical and Geological Museum, Harvard University; Alan Bronstein, president of the Natural Color Diamond Association (NCDIA); Brandee Dallow, president of the international board of the Women's Jewelry Association; Alan Hart, FGA, CDA, CEO, Gemological Association of Great Britain (Gem-A); Adonis Pouroulis, chairman of London-based Petra Diamonds; Gary Roskin, G.G. (GIA) FGA, executive director of the International Colored Gemstone Association (ICA); and Jennifer Schloss, physics Ph.D. candidate, Harvard University. The discussion moderator is Emily Stoehrer, Ph.D., Rita J. Kaplan and Susan B. Kaplan Curator of Jewelry at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Panelists will consider the continued popularity of the diamond, and its future as an engagement ring gem, as well as the growing popularity of colored diamonds and other gems. The panel will also discuss diamond's fascinating role in a variety of industrial and technological fields, and the introduction of lab-grown diamonds in the jewelry market.

Do Diamonds Matter?


April 5, 2017, 6-9 pm

Mineralogical & Geological Museum, Harvard University

24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138



To RSVP for this special free event, go to: http://www.womensjewelryassociation.com/ev_calendar_day.asp?date=4/5/2017&eventid=119

Monday, March 20, 2017

#InMyInbox - #DIAMONDS SEEM TO BE GETTING FRIENDLIER....

So, you may already know this but I am a big fan of memes - #InMyInbox translates to "my Inbox is overflowing"!  I am bundling some stories that I think you will enjoy or that I think you should know about....enjoy!

Diamonds, they say, are a Girl's Best Friend....maybe not so much, lately they seem to be attracted to the men!

You're all familiar with the Crater of Diamonds Fee Dig in Arkansas....

An Arkansas teenager hit the jackpot Saturday when he found a 7.44-carat diamond at the Crater of Diamonds State Park in Arkansas.

Story & Photo from the AP
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/03/17/teen-finds-744-carat-diamond-arkansas-park/99296000/





AND THEN.... 

A pastor has unearthed a massive gem in eastern Sierra Leone.  Pastor Emmanuel Momoh, who also works as a miner, discovered the 706-carat diamond in Kono district, the government said in a statement.
He handed it over to President Ernest Bai Koroma, who thanked him for not smuggling it out of the country. The President pledged to reward him with some of the proceeds from the sale of the diamond.
more from CNN:  http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/17/africa/sierra-leone-massive-diamond-unearthed/

Sunday, March 19, 2017

Missing Journalist Finds Her Way Home.... Bead & Design Show and MORE!!! #aflyonthewall #thedailyjewel

Yes - I'm still here - Sorry for the weeks of Silence.

What have I been up to?   well,  Saturday I went the the Bead & Design Show in Costa Mesa, CA!

I tend to attend local shows about every other year because they tend to have the same vendors - this one was a surprise - I found some new things that I haven't seen before and some gorgeous cut gems.

A full report should be up on my AFlyOnTheWall Views & Reviews Blog....but here's a little teaser..

These "halo'd" beads seemed to be a huge trend and is an easy way to get the micro pave look....

I fell hard for those Chrysoprase strands

This woman's coin pearls are some of the cleanest and most lustrous I've seen in awhile. 

I need to find this vendor's name but this was extremely black labradorite - the vendor wasn't able to tell me
the source country, but the contrast is dramatic!

I LOVED this vendor - Joseph with The Good Medicine Shop - Moldavite, natural gems and some wonderful carvings

Carvings from The Good Medicine Shop....I WANT that two headed Dragon - they form a heart!!!

It seems we can't talk jewelry without talking tassels....Beads U Need had them!
 
This tassel (or bead) cap stopped me - very different from most I've seen .
It inspired me to try my hand at creating a hammered tassel cap...what do you think?

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