Diamond Contact Lenses?
Would you pay $15,000 for a pair of contact lenses made with 18 diamonds on a white or yellow gold border around the lens? Dr. Chandrashekhar Chawan is ... Read More...
Experience Watchmaking & Jewelry Repair
Esslinger Staff
Color Me Silver
While gold prices are sky rocketing creating a great market for consumer's wanting to sell their old gold for cash, the soaring gold prices are also mak... Read More...
Running a Successful Video Contest
Social media is changing the way businesses advertise and approach deals and branding. And one jeweler from Broken Arrow, Oklahoma found a new way t... Read More...
The King… Of Jewelry?
You may know Elvis Presley better for his music or his tragic death, but in life he was quite the jewelry fan.
In 1975, he wanted to add a sign... Read More...
L.A. Jeweler Foils Robbery
If you ever need a reason to remember why it's important to be observant, outside of childhood memorization games, here it is: A jeweler in Los Angeles today fo... Read More...
Tag Heuer & Tiger Woods Part Ways
Tiger Woods' reported $10 million+ sponsorship contract with Tag Heuer 'expired' last month, making Tag the 6th major sponsor to drop him since his 2009... Read More...
Making Luxury Watches Unrepairable
Are luxury watch brands breaching European Union protocol and refusing to supply parts to independent repairers? No one knows for sure, or at least no o... Read More...
Chinese Freshwater Pearl Innovations
For years, China has been known for their small, costume-jewelry style freshwater pearls. And now they're making waves in the jewelry industry with larg... Read More...
How to Identify Gemstones
Every gemstone in the world holds its own unique beauty, rarity, and identity. Gem identification is a process of observing and testing a gemstones chem... Read More...
Watches are a Long Way From Being Extinct
What makes us so sure, when people are continually predicting the demise of the time-keeping device thanks to smartphones and other technology? Industry... Read More...
A Gem of a History Lesson
Once Upon a Time, some 3 billion years ago...
It could be the beginning of a the next science-fiction/fairy tale/thriller best-selling novel ... Read More...
Who Says Watches are Going Out of Fashion?
Not Tag Heuer, that's for sure.We've all heard it said that watches are going out of fashion. Thanks to consumer's reliance on cell phones, iPods, tablets, ... Read More...
Record Setting Gold Prices Continue to Rise
As jewelers learned in the last few years, with recent economic instability and the continued uncertainty over the debt ceiling in Washington D.C., gold prices ... Read More...
Using Facebook to Improve Business
Who would have guessed ten years ago that social media would have gained the influence it has in the various worlds of networking, business, advertising, news, ... Read More...
Handling Gold and Silver Shop Scrap
Handling Shop Scrap
With such high gold prices even flakes of gold floating in the air has value! Everything is precious and valuable today. ... Read More...
Small Jewelers’ Outlook Lackluster: Amid Struggle, Some Small Shops Find Ways to Shine – WSJ.com
Wall Street Journal
Some independent retail jewelers are finding new ways to do business in a different environment. According to a census by the Jew... Read More...
