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  • Saturday, 5 September, 2020
    Watches & Jewellery
    Modern designers breathe new life into heritage jewellery

    Repurposing heritage treasures can do wonders for their value but only if done properly

  • Saturday, 25 January, 2020
    InterviewWatches & Jewellery
    Family jeweller swears by independence

    Karl-Friedrich Scheufele talks about Chopard’s ethical stance

  • Saturday, 9 November, 2019
    Watches & Jewellery
    Bishopsland: where creativity and communal life combine

    Residential course run by octogenarian couple is a Shangri-La for aspiring silversmiths

  • Tuesday, 8 October, 2019
    Watches & Jewellery
    Upstarts descend on Parisian bastion of luxury

    Place Vendôme’s old guard has been forced to make way for a younger crowd

  • Thursday, 21 March, 2019
    InterviewWatches & Jewellery
    Alisa Moussaieff: doyenne of jewels steps into limelight

    The head of the eponymous jewellery brand on how social media has upended the rules

  • Thursday, 21 March, 2019
    Watches & Jewellery
    Influencers future-proof income as scepticism grows

    Jewellery bloggers are diversifying as user mistrust of Instagram’s output rises

  • Saturday, 10 November, 2018
    Watches & Jewellery
    Cruise industry growth is a boon for onboard retail

    Luxury brands are concocting interactive experiences to lure the next wave of cruisers

  • Thursday, 31 May, 2018
    Luxury goods
    Trinkets charm their way back into fashion

    The once-hot small jewels are seeing a revival beyond bracelets

  • Thursday, 22 March, 2018
    Luxury goods
    Jewellers at Baselworld angry at being ignored

    Brands are threatening to leave, but the fair’s organiser is sanguine about change

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    Expats
    British expats’ legacy on HK’s jewellery scene

    Wealthy westerners in the colonial era turned to studying and making jewellery

  • Saturday, 2 September, 2017
    Luxury goods
    How the UK’s assay offices are fighting for survival

    Recession and rivals have pushed them from hallmarking into startling innovation

  • Thursday, 1 June, 2017
    Retail sector
    Staff apathy sends jewellers to brain trainers

    Shops are trying unconventional, even unproven, techniques to motivate their staff

  • Thursday, 23 March, 2017
    Mining
    Big diamonds are big business

    Why have there been so many large stones on the market? And will we soon see more?

  • Monday, 16 January, 2017
    Gold
    How do jewellers capture every last particle of gold dust?

    An ingenious industry is turning workshop waste into profit

  • Friday, 11 November, 2016
    Luxury goods
    Why jewellers develop new cuts for diamonds

    Over the past 20 years, jewellers have revived the quest for sparklier, more attention-grabbing diamond cuts

  • Friday, 11 November, 2016
    Retail sector
    How Amazon made its jewellery stock rock

    The retailer’s head of jewellery, Julian Exposito-Bader, has had a tough task enchanting the trade

  • Saturday, 3 September, 2016
    Personal & Household Goods
    Post-war jewellers still at work

    Some who began careers in the 1950s and 1960s are going strong, thanks to renewed energy and necessity

  • Saturday, 3 September, 2016
    Luxury goods
    Day in the life — at International Jewellery London

    Long hours and new talent at jewellery fair

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