High jewelry designer Sevan Biçakçi’s world is filled with lost kingdoms and forgotten sultans. As he opens a flagship store in Miami, Clara Le Fort sits down with the creative maverick.
Hublot celebrated last year the 10th anniversary of their iconic model : the Big Bang. A sport watch owned by a lot, dreamed by many and offered in a variety of colors, sizes, prices, limited editions, for men or women, with…
Mid-December, Ricardo Guadalupe, CEO of Hublot unveiled the Big Bang Sugar Skull, under a clear blue sky on the top of the Zermatt Swiss mountain, a capsule collection in collaboration with AK SKIS founded by Francesca and Marco Kuonen, two…
For the second year in a row, the dream team Martin Frei and Felix Baumgartner, founders of the independent watch brand URWERK developed a watch made for women.
Time is a critical element in luxury and the most needed to re-build a brand for the long run. Fabergé is the winner for the second time of the Grand Prix de l’Horlogerie, dragging all of the attention of the…
De Beers Diamond Specialist, teaches you about grading, rarity and how synthetic diamonds could be perfect for the watch industry
Not only Olivier Dupon has been a regular contributor on The Eye of Jewelry foreseeing exclusive interviews with keys jewelry players within our industry, but on his not-so-spare time he has always writer and a talented one.
Considered the Queen of Opals in the United States, the Australian designer Katherine Jetter has always lived around opals making her a distinguised and legitimate connoisseur of that particular stone. She launched her eponymous brand in 2008 and keeps on…
Olivier Dupon, author of several books all published by Thames & Hudson met with Raliegh Goss in charge of developing Star Diamond Private Jeweler on the London luxury scene. The exclusive diamond brand: STAR DIAMOND opened its doors in April…
Benjamin Mizrahi is a true gem lover, stone dealer and jewelry designer. He founded his own company BenGems in Geneva in 2013 specializing in sourcing rare and outstanding stones.
She has the accent of a true New Yorker, yet, Anita Ko is the epitomy of the California girl. She started designing jewelry professionally in 2003 but only decided 3 years later to launch her eponymous brand.
At 23, he was the head of the stone department at de Grisogono before he decided to launch his own company. As a stone lover and gemologist, Benjamin Mizrahi founds BenGems in 2011 specializing in jewelry revamping, stone dealing and…
Ralph Masri revels in fusing the decorative power of traditional costume jewellery with the precious contemporary elegance of fine jewellery. Confirming his love for architecture and passion shapes, he delves into a historical interpretation of collections (Phoenician Script, Sacred Windows or…
The market for men’s jewellery is rapidly expanding, and sadly not always for the best. So let’s rejoice when originality, quality and a dash of cool combine. The ravishing cufflinks of Begüm Khan have already taken the world by storm….
She’s Greek, speaks French and English fluently and soon German since she moved to Hamburg last year… As the head designer of M/G Tasaki, Melanie Georgacopoulos, the 35-years old designer imposes her talent and creativity not only to the pearl…
R.Y.M Jewelry debuted in 2016 with two defining collections : the Diamond Digit collection and the Purely Portemanteau. However, Reem Mobassaleh now based in Dubai but a globetrotter who was born in London and raised in the U.S. started making…
She has an inimitable style, an angel face and a career many women would be dreaming of but Olivia Palermo is much more than that: she is the new ambassador of Piaget who just launched their latest Possession Collection, the…
She’s the Steve Jobs of jewelry who started off working out of garage. Now she is a jewelry rockstar. Jacquie Aiche has become an icon with an emblematic style you can notice from miles away! She offended a few spirits…
Joanne Ooi is the woman you definitely want to meet, once in your life, crossing the path of your jewelry career or interest and most importantly, a woman who will inspire you …. Her goal- with her colleagues- is intent…
We are back online with our latest episode of the exclusive interview of Joanne Ooi founder of the online jewelry retail business Plukka. If you have followed our previous Q&A (who is Joanne Ooi, how does Plukka work and how…
After meeting with Joanna Ooi, Founder of Plukka, she explained to our london-based journalist Olivier Dupon what was Plukka was all about – Where she responded that it embodied the new form of jewelry retail – but at the end…
The multi-platform Plukka is embodying the new jewelry model in terms of retail. In the second series of Q&A, Joanne Ooi explains the business model.
The future of jewelry is here. Its name: PLUKKA. As a multi-jewelry brand, multi-channel for retail and marketing platform, Hong-Kong based Joanne Ooi, Plukka’s founder explains in a series of Q&A (to follow) how she sees the industry evolving and…
Let’s talk to Guy and Max Shepherd and learn more about their take on 3D printing and understand how they can be so avant-garde in regards to the development of our century, while creating fine jewellery with a vintage flair.
Baselworld 2016 just started with the energy of the beggining of a fair. Let’s first check out Garrard’s Tudor Rose cocktail rings.
In his own dictionnary book, Lorenz Baumer gives the best jewelry tips one can get in purchasing a piece of jewelry but most importantly how to take care of it.
A growing segment of the costume jewelry industry has been successfully redefining what fashion jewelry actually is or could be. Combining precious plating with luxurious components, Australian designer Ryan Storer is part of the few how have explored these boundaries…
He’s cool, he’s hip, he’s trendy and does not like bullshit. He has a heavy ADHD(Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder), is not good with emails, communicates with What’s app exclusively. He is a surfer, a father, a jeweler who creates his…
Laurent Picciotto, founder and owner of Chronopassion gives insights about the sell/buy energy in regards to watches during the actual climax. The end of 2015 was not so great … what can we expect for 2016 at the verge of…
With over 109K Instagram followers, Elena Gondorf made a name for herself in the high jewelry industry. Specializing in minimalistic designs she set with rubies or black diamonds exclusively… The Eye of Jewelry interviewed the founder of La Tache Bobo…
When Mads Kornerup founded Shamballa Jewels , Bine Grassmé joined the spirited company four years after. She has been the jewelry manager of the Danish brand ever since. Celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, the brand keeps on accumulating successes.
Laura Medine was a diamond person until her husband talked her into Alexandrite stones. She grew up in the jewelry industry and ended-up marrying a jewelry designer before becoming one herself. The Eye of Jewelry interviewed her in her New…
Yvonne Leon grew up in jewelry, worked in the industry, studied at ESMOD Paris and became a stylist and editorial assistant for various magazines before she launched her own brand in 2013. Her diamond lobe-earrings made her famous worldwide. The…
In Paris, Montaigne Market is to jewelry what Ladurée is to macarons. Liliane Jossua, founder of Montaigne Market gives us her insights about the Parisian climax for this end of year. After the terrorist attacks that struck Paris on November…
Cyril Bismuth is a stone lover since his youngest age, he has been represented at Montaigne Market from the beginning and spotted by Cara Delevingne amongst others. Undoubtfully, Cyril Bismuth, a cool kid from Paris has become an icon in…
It is not just a name of a new high-jewelry collection: it is the one and only. Vies de Bohème by John Rubel is the modern transformation of jewelry of a centenary brand that has been brought back to life…
