Episode 158: Guest Bella Neyman, NYCJW

The Jewelry District

JCK

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

4.9 • 50 Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s episode, JCK editor-in-chief Victoria Gomelsky and news director Rob Bates chat with Bella Neyman, founder of New York City Jewelry Week (NYCJW), an action-packed set of events that take place each year in mid-November. Bella shares how the event got started back in 2018, where she found inspiration for the festival, what her goals were in launching it, and—most importantly—what exciting talks and activities are in store for this year. Bella teases a few events to look out for and explains this year’s theme, Art Worn, which focuses on the artistry of jewelry. Title Sponsor: Nivoda (nivoda.com) Sponsor: De Beers (adiamondisforever.com)

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Jewelry District, a podcast by J.C.K. brought to you by Novota.
0:16.3	Today, Rob Bates and Victoria Gamalski talk to Bella Neiman, founder of New York City Jewelry Week.
0:30.0	Hey everyone, welcome to the jewelry district. This is Victoria Gimelski, editor-in-chief of JCPay and JCP Online.com, calling in from
0:39.4	raining Los Angeles. And I'm with.
0:41.7	Rob Bates, news director of JCPay and JCPonline.com, coming in from, I don't think it's
0:48.0	rainy, but it's a little overcast, overcast New York City.
0:52.2	It's fall, as it should be.
0:54.3	Usually when we talk, you've usually come back from someplace, but you haven't, have you
0:58.4	travel lately?
0:59.4	Not since my fabulous two-night whirlwind in New York for Raleifest.
1:04.3	No, I've kind of made a conscious decision to stay in town.
1:09.1	In fact, I might have been in New York this week again because it's NYC
1:13.1	watch week, which is just this confluence of watch events that centered on mostly watchtime,
1:18.9	New York, an event at Gotham Hall that's been going on for now. This is, I think, the 10th anniversary
1:23.6	2015. And the wind up fair and a ton of brands are doing activations. And, like,
1:30.1	I just got an invite to, like, a beer fest, October fest type event that Elang and Sone, the German
1:35.9	brand, watchmaking brand is holding this week. Lou Viton is doing a presentation.
1:40.6	Yel Lys Nardin is having a party. I'd be interested in the October Fest invite when you cast that one over.
1:47.3	Yeah, I was sort of bummed. You know, I had been invited and I would have loved to come out and
1:52.5	seen you guys and spent some time in the office and then done some of these watch events,
1:56.0	but I just am making a little more of a conscious effort to stay home because, as you well know, I travel a lot. So it's nice to be home, but I do have a little bit of FOMO this week. And by the time people are listening to this podcast, it'll be over. But it is a big week for the watch world. And I think a big week for launches, a lot of, I just, I think I might have gotten three or four press releases in my inbox just this morning about new pieces debuting.
2:20.6	So again, just, you know, the watch world operates on a different calendar now.
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