Episode 143: 24 Karat Weekend, Tariffs, Lab-Grown Diamonds, Rolex

The Jewelry District

JCK

Fashion & Beauty, Business News, Business, Arts, News

9.9 • 25 Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

JCK editor-in-chief Victoria Gomelsky (https://www.jckonline.com/writer/victoria-gomelsky/) and news director Rob Bates (https://www.jckonline.com/writer/rob-bates/) recap highlights from NYC Jewelry Week, including takeaways from The Plumb Club’s Symposium ’25 that leaders everywhere can apply to help their businesses succeed. Rob brings listeners up to speed on how the ever-changing tariff news could impact the jewelry industry and shares emerging trends from the diamond market. Finally, Victoria discusses the most-talked-about rumors and reports from the watch world, including acquisitions, major management shifts shaking up the top players, and buzz about a potential new line from Rolex.Sponsored by IGI: igi.org/education

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0:00.0	Welcome to the jewelry district, a podcast by J.C.K. brought to you by IGII, the International Gemological Institute.
0:18.7	Today, Rob Bates and Victoria Gamalski talk about NYC Jewelry Week and Plum Club Symposium,
0:24.5	tariffs, the lab grown and natural diamond markets, and news from Brightling and Panerae.
0:30.1	Hey, everyone.
0:31.4	Welcome to the jewelry district.
0:33.3	This is Victoria Gamelski, editor-in-chief of JCPay and JCPonline.com.
0:38.6	Calling in from Los Angeles, and I'm with.
0:40.8	Rob Bates, news director of J-C-K and J-CK Online.com, calling in from New York City, where you just were.
0:49.6	I just was, and it was a lovely, long, kind of very long weekend for all the industry events yeah it was
0:56.8	great i landed uh last wednesday so we're taping this on march 18th and the weather was gorgeous
1:02.9	and i had tons to do but it was a very productive weekend it was great to see you rob i feel like
1:08.6	i'm trying to remember the last time I saw you at all.
1:11.8	And it might have been, I don't know, maybe last year sometime. I can't remember now.
1:16.8	I got him. I don't remember. It's all a blur now. As is this past weekend. So, I mean, you had a ton of
1:23.1	events, including some that carried on after I even left because I was there from Wednesday to
1:27.4	Sunday.
1:28.7	And I definitely want to hear your take because you had a lot more kind of nitty-gritty meetings.
1:32.5	I kicked things off with the Plum Club Symposium 2025, which I don't know if it's the second annual.
1:39.4	It is the second one.
1:40.6	Hopefully there will be a third and fourth.
1:42.5	And every year we'll have this
1:44.2	tradition around Jewelry Week in mid-March.
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