Sedona Jewelry News 1-15-2016
Winners of the 2016 Gem Awards By Hannah Connorton National Jeweler
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WatchTime’s Joe Thompson was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award at this year’s Gem Awards, held at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York on Friday night.
New York–Cartier, Temple St. Clair, Rob Bates and Joe Thompson all were recognized at Jewelers of America’s 14th annual Gem Awards Friday night, an event that is considered the jewelry industry equivalent of the Oscars.
The winners in three of the award categories–Jewelry Design, Watch Design and Media Excellence–were kept under wraps until the event. Revealed before the event was the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award, given this year to Thompson, the editor-in-chief of WatchTime magazine. Read more…
Why the Closing of My Hometown Bakery Makes Me Sad for Jewelers By Jennifer Heebner JCK online
About a week before Christmas, as our family scurried to finish holiday decorations and shop for Christmas eve
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dinner with extended family, we learned that our neighborhood bakery was closing. Flourtown Bakery—a moniker that speaks to the flour mills that once dotted the Philadelphia-area landscape that our town’s name represents—would close shop by January 1. We were saddened by the news—and not just because it made a good pound cake. Read more…
Sedona Jewelry News 1-15-2016
3 Retail Clichés for 2016 By Michelle Graff National Jeweler 10X
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A few Sundays ago, I was riding back to New York with my brother and sister-in-law after spending Christmas in Pittsburgh with my family.
Michelle-blogOf course, we had the Steelers game on the radio and even tuned in in time to catch a bit of the pre-game show on 102.5 WDVE. The topic of conversation was clichés, specifically those uttered in connection with this 2015 team, chief among them being that the boys in black and gold are the team that “nobody wants to see in the playoffs” this year.
Listening to the broadcast got me thinking about all the expressions that are used time and again, year after year, in headlines and stories relating to the retail industry, and what ones we will continue to come across in 2016. Read more…
Why Does White Gold Yellow? By Jewelers of America
It’s natural for white gold to fade, sometimes yellowing, here’s why.
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Most white gold rings are flash plated with a very, very thin coating of rhodium (a pure white metal) to give them a more brilliant, pure white appearance. This rhodium plating will wear off over time and reveal the white gold ring underneath. Because pure gold is very yellow, no matter how much you alloy it with other white metals like zinc and nickel, it will almost always retain some of its yellowish body color. Read more…
Sedona Jewelry News 1-15-2016
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