Gearry Suen’s jewellery of the future
PORTRAIT
March 2022
Chinese jewellery designer Gearry Suen is one of those emerging talents that really deserves to be followed. His dreamlike jewellery is a bridge between (…)
Watches are back at Vicenzaoro
March 2022
After the Covid-induced hiatus, the Vicenzaoro global jewellery fair is back in business. This year, it welcomes the return of a dedicated watch area (…)
Bulgari and Serpenti: intertwined destinies
STORY
March 2022
From Finissimo to Piccolissimo: with its recently gained expertise in ultra-thin calibres, the Roman brand is inserting miniaturised mechanics (1.30 grams!) (…)
“Nothing is permanent. Why do we expect jewels to be permanent?”
INTERVIEW
January 2022
Studio Renn, a collective founded in 2018 in Mumbai, creates jewellery that might be better described as “wearable sculpture”. The two founders presented (…)
GemGenève, the success of the wonderfair
INTERVIEW
January 2022
The third edition of the Geneva show dedicated to precious stones and fine jewellery ended on a more than positive note. With 120 exhibitors and 2,757 (…)
Watchmaking in search of eternity
ANALYSIS
March 2021
While mechanical watchmaking – the existence of which dates back not millennia but “merely” a few centuries – could conceivably one day dwindle and die out, (…)
Ulysse Nardin ventures into jewellery watchmaking
March 2021
Diamonds, diamonds, and more diamonds... With the Sparkling Free Wheel, Ulysse Nardin launches a “ray of light into the stratosphere” with a masterpiece (…)
Jacob & Co.: Jewels & Complications
INTERVIEW
March 2021
Maybe more than any other name in the industry, Jacob & Co has pushed the opulent mix of gems and complicated mechanisms. Even with the pandemic crisis, (…)
Learning from jewellery’s successes
EDITORIAL
March 2021
In what is still a highly fragmented sector, where “no-name” brands dominate, the jewellery heavyweights – Cartier, Tiffany & Co., Bulgari and Van Cleef (…)
“Jewellery will continue to outperform”
INTERVIEW
March 2021
In the wake of LVMH’s takeover of Tiffany & Co., the largest transaction in the history of luxury, we wanted to learn more about the dynamics of the (…)
“Jewellery is based on gut feeling”
INTERVIEW
March 2021
Bulgari presents a rare example of a historical jeweller that has today become a fully-fledged watchmaker. It is master of its own in-house movements, and (…)
Building a gemstone super-expert
R&D
March 2021
Far greater volumes of gemstones, evaluated automatically? This is the promise offered by Swiss jewellery house Gübelin, which has joined forces with CSEM (…)
