Welcome to the Jewelry District, a podcast by J.C.K. brought to you by Tracer. Today, Rob Bates and

Victoria Gamalski talk with Julia Hackman Chaffa, social media manager for

Intercolor USA, and stick around to hear a special sponsored mini interview with Howard Stone

from jeweler's mutual insurance, who talks about store security and loss prevention.

Hey, everyone, welcome to the jewelry district. This is Victoria Gamelski, editor-in-chief of JCPK

and J-C-Online.com, calling in from Los Angeles.

And I'm with...

Rob Bates, news director of JCPay and JCPOnline.com calling in from New York City.

How goes it?

It's going.

Everything's good.

You know, I do a lot of watch coverage for the New York Times, and I am in watch,

I would say it's kind of watch hell. I have to get up every morning to have like these Zoom calls

with executives in Switzerland, which means like 8 a.m. I'm not my best on a video call at 8 a.m.

And tomorrow, when we're taping this on a Wednesday, tomorrow Thursday morning, I will have to do a 7 a.m. video

call, which honestly is a lot to ask here, but it's like...

That's not easy.

No, it's because one person is a watchmaker in Tokyo, another one's in New York, and it's like, it's just...

This is the price I pay for being a West coaster.

It's like very early morning, Have to be ready. But,

you know, I guess the flip side is by this time of the day, I can chill and I can generally kind of

take off early afternoon. But I guess that's the opposite of your day. How are you doing this week?

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