The Valjoux 7750 Chronograph Watch Movement
History will show that this all time classic has been the main stay of the most functional and robust chronograph watch movements since its introduction on the 1st July 1974! Indeed, there are not many other variants that have ever come close? The ETA 2894-2 with 37 Jewels Technical Data...

Discounting Christmas
Consumer demand for holiday markdowns is likely to mean tepid sales growth for retailers this holiday season...

A 'Yankee Victor' Big Bang for Venezuelan Private Jet Owners
Hublot has created a limited edition Big Bang exlusively for Venezuela! For a personalised, aeronautical touch, Hublot has given it the country's code name, as used in civil aviation..

Working With Argentium Silver
Blog about the techniques used in jewelry making, reviews of independent jewelry designers, current jewelry and fashion trends, and designing divas of all kinds...

CANADIAN MINING PERSPECTIVES: Tahera admits feeling dollar pinch
Current and archived articles from Canadian Mining Journal, reader and advertiser services, a chatroom, reader research contest, Buyers' Guide, and a detailed equipment guide...

Navajo Silversmith Calvin Martinez
Another of my favorite contemporary artists is Navajo silversmith Calvin Martinez. Calvin, who comes from a family of jewelry makers, is a self-taught silversmith. He started making cast work jewelry in 1970, at age 14...

 

Blue Nile Tarnished By Disappointing Q4 Outlook
Blue Nile (NILE) this afternoon reported third quarter revenue of $67.4 million and profits of 18 cents a share, falling a bit shy of the topline consensus of $68.02 million, but beating the Street by 2 cents at the bottom line. The online diamond retailer disappointed with its fourth quarter...

Jacob Arabov of Jacob and Co Pleads Guilty
Jacob Arabov, also known as Jacob the Jeweller pleaded guilty of money laundering. He was accused of laundering 270 million dollars for the Black Mafia Family in June 2006. Jacob is the created of the famous Five Timezones Watch which adorns many famous celebrities from Elton John to Paris Hilton...

Dreams turning to dust for gold scavengers
As 70-year-old Mohamed Omar sifts through grime in the back lanes housing Kolkata’s ornament makers to pick out gold dust, his deeply lined face furrows with worry as again he finds nothing. For centuries, the city’s band of more than 200 gold scavengers, have eked out a living by panning out gold dust. But demand for jewellery has fallen alongside bullion’s climb to a near three-decade high...
 
Gold soars as a perfect storm begins to gather
If a preoccupation with the weather is a curiously English phenomenon, then nothing could be as compelling a story as a “perfect storm” – a rare occurrence in which several weather conditions come together to destructive effect. Gold, an important bellwether of the economic world, finds itself the beneficiary of such an occurrence, buoyed to within a whisker of the all-time high of $850 an ounce.