Putin’s Diamonds
The gloves have indeed come off. In a recent article, Diamond Foundry has taken a shot at the entire natural diamond industry, specifically naming Tiffany & Company as well as all retail jewelers for selling Russian Diamonds: “Putin’s Diamonds”, as they call them.
I Trust You…Now Sign Here
One jeweler I work with, to avoid litigation, recently had to settle with a customer over a missing ring. The customer claimed she never picked up her ring, while the store showed the job as delivered, but only in the computer!
Don’t Poke the Bear – Volume 2
There is no difference in rarity between a .50ct and a 2.00ct laboratory-grown synthetic diamond (in spite of what the sellers of synthetic diamonds will tell you). The cost to produce them is simply linear – time in the reactor = size of the cube. Period.
Don’t Poke the Bear
There is no difference in rarity between a .50ct and a 2.00ct laboratory-grown synthetic diamond (in spite of what the sellers of synthetic diamonds will tell you). The cost to produce them is simply linear – time in the reactor = size of the cube. Period.
Exit
Is it a bad thing to not have a succession or exit plan in place or do you intend to be the one who turns out the lights – the last owners of your business?
Vaping
Watching a news program about the problems associated with Vaping, especially with young people, it dawned on me that we have our own Vaping issue: Carbon Vapor Disposition, or CVD man-made diamonds.





