Welcome to the Jewelry District, a podcast by J.C.K. brought to you by the De Beers Institute of Diamonds.

Today, Rob Bates and Victoria Gamalski talk about New York City Jewelry Week, holiday forecasting, and a sustainability report from the World Wildlife Fund, Switzerland.

Hey, everyone. Welcome to the jewelry district. This is Victoria Gamelski, editor-in-chief of JCP-C-K Online.com, calling in from Los Angeles, and I'm with

Rob Bates, news director of J-C-K and J-C-Online.com, calling in from New York City. How are you?

Is that a little... A little stuffy?

Yes, a little stuffy. I've been stuffy for like a month. I don't know what it is.

I think it's a raging sinus infection, and I feel fine otherwise, but yeah, very congested.

It was like this, you know, even in New York when I was in town during the first half of November for jewelry week.

But yeah, otherwise I'm doing all right.

I hope this clears up because by the time people

are listening to this next week, I will be in Miami for Art Basel. I'm going as a guest of

Cartier, which is sort of an oblique way to see the art world's most illustrious kind of gatherings

or to experience one of the art world's most illustrious gatherings. Cardier is debuting an exhibition called Time Unlimited at the Miami Design District,

I believe it's boutique in the Miami Design District,

focused on the history of its timepieces and kind of its pioneering shaped models.

And, you know, what's interesting is when they invited me and kind of shared the goal of this initiative

of this exhibition, which runs from December 7th to the 22nd, it was to really sort of shine a light on

their watchmaking, which I think to most of us in the watch and jewelry industry were well aware

of Cartier as a force in the world of watches. And yet I think out in the greater world, perhaps their jewelry, you know, is just

better known.

And your average person, if they're going to think about Cartier, they think about

jewels and not watches.

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