Industry Veteran Caps a 40-Year Jewelry Career, Will Continue Mentoring the Next Generation Through WJA and MENTORO​.

JA members met with Senators Durbin and Collins and Rep. Jim Jordan on Sept. 15 to press for diamond tariff relief and the CORCA bill.

It's not a wow, it's not an add-on — it's a planned team move that uses curiosity to put a diamond in the client's hand when ...

A FASHION RING doesn’t come with a proposal built in, so independent jewelers have to supply their own reason for a customer to buy one. In a recent INSTORE Brain Squad survey, we asked readers for ...

October is the time to start actively collecting wish lists — before customers start buying elsewhere. Get the list in hand and the sale is already half closed. At a women’s night before the holidays, ...

The sighting: Actress Sarah Pidgeon, best known for now Emmy-award willing stint playing fashion icon Carolyn Bessette Kennedy (aka CBK) in “Love Story”, attended the 2026 Emmys in head-to-toe Chanel.

THE RING CAME from a website. The watch band shipped from somewhere overseas. The loose diamond was an “amazing deal.” And now all of it is sitting on your counter — because guess who they trust to ...

Brain Squad survey finds nearly two-thirds of independent jewelers shut down for a few days each year — and most say customers barely blink. Most independent jewelers are closing up shop for a few ...

This story is part of INSTORE’s lead story, “Radical Reinvention”, featured in the December 2025 edition. Rebecca Rau Jewels and M.S. Rau Jewelry Gallery AFTER REBECCA RAU, FOURTH-GENERATION antiques ...

HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT? As a couple of our entrants noted, this gemstone’s very name teases those following the trail of clues. The gemological beauty in question was hiddenite, the emerald-colored ...

JUNE’S MYSTERY DESIGNER is known for her deliberately slow process, with each rock crystal hand-carved and each setting individually forged. We suspect it took similarly deliberate, deductive thinking ...

I didn’t train at a jewelry bench — I studied art and philosophy, worked in couture circles, and taught myself technique through craft. With my partner Pierre Jeannet, I opened an atelier on Place ...