Posts under ‘Sarah Carpin’

What is the link between the serious Swiss watch brand Carl F Bucherer and a gritty Brit flick? You may think the answer is not much, but last week I attended a private viewing of the new Michael Caine film Harry Brown, hosted by Carl F Bucherer and the brand’s UK agent, Nuval with its [...]

I have been visiting Israel this week, as a guest of the Israeli Diamond Institute. My schedule included visits to two museums. One was the Holocaust museum in Jerusalem, which was an emotional experience. The memorial to the children was particularly moving, which represented the deaths of some one million jewish children in the holocaust [...]

I am researching men’s jewellery for the November issue of Retail Jeweller, and have had some very interesting responses. The subject of men wearing jewellery does seem to attract some very negative comments. Take Grazia’s magazine’s comments on TVs X-Factor male contestants for instance: “We need to talk about this weekend’s X-Factor. But where to [...]

It seems I cannot escape from beads, even when I’m not at work. Every time I turned on the radio last weekend I heard a commercial for Pandora. And walking past my local jewellers (W E Clark & Son in Lewes) on Saturday, I could hear two women who were peering in at the [...]

We were said to learn of the tragic death of Campbell Bridges, the gem expert who founded Tsavorite, who was killed in Kenya this week. We will be publishing a tribute to him in the next issue of Retail Jeweller. If you knew him and would like to send us your comments and thoughts on [...]

Retailers have long complained to me about the arrogance of certain big watch brands. This week, I have experienced some of that arrogance for myself. The winner of the 2009 Women’s Watch of the Year at the UK Jewellery Awards stated, in no uncertain terms, that they could not be bothered to attend the awards. [...]

Having breakfast at Cecconis with the lovely Vicky Sims this week, we had a great time celebrity spotting (Bill Nighy was in) and gossiping (some rather juicy stuff about a certain high profile male celebrity who is, shall we say, not really keeping up with his macho married image….) and also, as always, talking beads [...]

Much of my time is spent looking at mass-produced, badly-finished silver jewellery made in the Far East and trying my hardest not to damn it with faint praise. How refreshing it is to be able to view jewellery that takes my breath away by its technical and artistic brilliance. On Wednesday, I went to the [...]

Heading out to deepest Chiswick for one of the events of Coutts London Jewellery Week yesterday, Frances and I were most impressed by the platinum-themed displays at Marmalade Jewellery.
Besides an imaginative window display (designed by a student at Central Saint Martins) the interior of the shop had some special platinum exhibits on show. A luxurious [...]

I was visiting the preview of Goldsmiths’ Fair this week and was particularly impressed by the glass blown jewels of Serena Kyung Hyun Park and the intricate and delicate jewellery of Kayo Saito, who will both be exhibiting at the fair later on in the year.
While I was at the preview, I had a bit [...]