The new collection will begin with the Soffio, Segno and Desideri pieces that are sure to make an impact.
Tuesday, 8 July 2008
Pomeroi welcome Breil jewellery
Pomeroi have just taken on board the new Breil fine jewellery collection and look forward to doing good business with them. The new collection looks extremely beautiful and will be promoted by Charlize Theron which must help to boost sales. The fine jewellery will phase out the very popular steel collection which included the iconic 'snake' that was as eye catching as any jewellery you will ever see.
The new collection will begin with the Soffio, Segno and Desideri pieces that are sure to make an impact.
The new collection will begin with the Soffio, Segno and Desideri pieces that are sure to make an impact.
Sunday, 15 June 2008
Another note on recycling
Not only will you get a new piece of jewellery for a fraction of the price of a new off the shelf item. But recycling old jewellery will also be light on your conscience as it will help minimise the risk of more "dirty gold" being mined...
Saturday, 14 June 2008
Stashings of valuables
Halifax bank has conducted a survey and found that the average household owns £1986 worth of jewellery with most of it stashed away and never worn. With soaring petrol and food bills currently cutting many people's budget for luxury items, recycling old jewellery that is never worn is an excellent way of updating ones look without having to spend a fortune. We have seen an increase in customers coming in with old pieces of jewellery, often inherited pieces with diamonds and other valuable gemstones, wanting us to help them design something unique and modern that they don't want to put back in their drawers. Again, customers really like the fact that we do all the work ourselves, on-site.
Halifax also found in their study that 35% of the population has never had their jewellery valued. Having each piece of jewellery valued for insurance purposes is extremely important in order to be covered for the correct amount on the house insurance. Every diamond purchase at Pomeroi comes with a free valuation for insurance purposes, but we also do these, for a minimal fee, for non-Pomeroi bought items.
Halifax also found in their study that 35% of the population has never had their jewellery valued. Having each piece of jewellery valued for insurance purposes is extremely important in order to be covered for the correct amount on the house insurance. Every diamond purchase at Pomeroi comes with a free valuation for insurance purposes, but we also do these, for a minimal fee, for non-Pomeroi bought items.
Thursday, 12 June 2008
Sunday Night Project
Watching the Sunday Night Project and noticed a rather nice necklace that Jordan (or should I say Katie Price) was wearing. Even with Sky Plus I could not picture exactly what it was. What sky need now is a button to 'pause' a particular scene and then be able to zoom in and out.
I'm pretty sure it was yellow gold with otagonal citrine/ smokey quartz stones. Or certain parts of the necklace were shaped as octagonal and then set with pave diamonds....
Wonder where this necklace is from...
I'm pretty sure it was yellow gold with otagonal citrine/ smokey quartz stones. Or certain parts of the necklace were shaped as octagonal and then set with pave diamonds....
Wonder where this necklace is from...
On-site Workshop
Just had a customer come in who found us from our website. He has a large loose heart diamond that he purchased 4 years ago and now needs it mounted up into a pendant. Interestingly, he surfed the web for ages looking for a genuine jewellers with an on-site workshop that was capable of dealing with this.
I was pleasantly surprised to hear this but can totally agree. Although there are thousands of on-line jewellers available, there are limited numbers when it comes to 'the full works' and I mean the shopping side, excellent customer service, general information on jewellery and a 'real on-site workshop' capable of creating something for the customer from scratch. This includes the designing, one-on-one conversations at the design stage, creating the piece, setting and finally polishing.
I certainly don't mind this - let's hope more people find us via our website.
I was pleasantly surprised to hear this but can totally agree. Although there are thousands of on-line jewellers available, there are limited numbers when it comes to 'the full works' and I mean the shopping side, excellent customer service, general information on jewellery and a 'real on-site workshop' capable of creating something for the customer from scratch. This includes the designing, one-on-one conversations at the design stage, creating the piece, setting and finally polishing.
I certainly don't mind this - let's hope more people find us via our website.
New season with Thomas Sabo
Don't forget to use our voucher code that can be found here to get 5% discount off of your purchase.
Pomeroi start their voucher codes
With the credit crunch seemingly hitting everyone that you speak to, we were trying to come up with ways to help the customer still enjoy those little luxuries.
So during the year, we are going to be promoting various vouchers to use at Pomeroi which entitle the customer to save a few pounds.
At the moment, Pomeroi have a discount of 5% off of any item you purchase whether it be a diamond ring to a gift for your loved one. To claim the discount which is valid until 31st July 2008, simply type in the voucher code - mseJun08 at the check-out page.
Enjoy the savings!
So during the year, we are going to be promoting various vouchers to use at Pomeroi which entitle the customer to save a few pounds.
At the moment, Pomeroi have a discount of 5% off of any item you purchase whether it be a diamond ring to a gift for your loved one. To claim the discount which is valid until 31st July 2008, simply type in the voucher code - mseJun08 at the check-out page.
Enjoy the savings!
Friday, 2 November 2007
Conflict Diamonds
As a consumer and potential buyer of diamonds you are right in being concerned about the ethics of diamond mining and trade. You may already know about the 4 Cs but there is an increasing awareness of the so called 5th C – Conflict Diamonds, especially since the release of the film “The Blood Diamond” featuring Leonardo di Caprio and Amnesty International’s campaign “Are you looking for the perfect diamond”.
Conflict diamonds, also known as "blood" diamonds, are rough diamonds used by rebel movements or their allies to finance armed conflict aimed at undermining legitimate governments. Profits from the trade in conflict diamonds, worth billions of dollars, were used to buy arms during the devastating wars in Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Liberia and Sierra Leone.
While the wars in Angola, Liberia and Sierra Leone are now over and fighting in the DRC has decreased, the problem of conflict diamonds hasn’t gone away. Diamonds mined in rebel-held areas in Côte d’Ivoire, a West African country in the midst of a volatile conflict, are reaching the international diamond market. Conflict diamonds from Liberia are also being smuggled into neighbouring countries and exported as part of the legitimate diamond trade.
Congo is another troublespot. In January (2007), the World Diamond Council, the industry body, said it had received reports of conflict diamonds being smuggled from Congo via Zimbabwe to South Africa where they were certified as legitimate and exported. Zimbabwe's government denies the allegations. Although Liberia's civil war is over, its diamonds are still subject to UN sanctions.
The Kimberley Process is an international certification scheme that regulates the trade in rough diamonds. It was launched in 2000 by several southern African countries and a total of 71 countries have now signed up (as of Nov 2006). Its aim is to prevent the trade in conflict diamonds, while helping to protect the legitimate trade in rough diamonds. Governments have to keep records tracking diamonds from source to their polished form. In theory this prevents conflict diamonds from entering the supply chain. A Kimberley Process certificate, guaranteeing diamonds as conflict-free, accompanies all official shipments of rough diamonds to and from participating countries. To support this, the international diamond industry agreed to a voluntary system of warranties to ensure diamonds continued to be tracked right up to the point of sale. All invoices for the sale of rough diamonds should now include a written guarantee that states they are conflict-free.
In the late 1990s, at the height of the problems, conflict diamonds, mainly from Congo, Angola and Sierra Leone, made up between 4% and 15% of the global trade. The diamond industry says that fewer than 1% of diamonds on the market now are from war zones. Gemstone revenue has the potential to heal as well as hurt, the industry says, pointing out that Sierra Leone has now been at peace since 2002 and its diamond industry generates $140m in tax and export revenue. But critics say 1% of a $60bn global market is still too much.
Legal diamond trade ploughs money back into the country they came from. In countries such as Botswana and South Africa, diamond revenues have paid for schools, roads and clinics. Diamond revenues enable every child in Botswana to receive free education up to the age of 13 and an estimated 5 million people have access to appropriate healthcare globally thanks to revenues from diamonds.
Instead of boycotting diamonds altogether, consumers are being urged to ask retailers whether their diamonds are conflict-free.
After much controversy by the media such as the film Blood Diamond and by singer Kanye West the rapper Akon, who actually owns a diamond mine, defends diamond mining in an interview with MTV: "The argument has been blown out of proportion, I’m sure in certain mines and in certain areas there's probably some illegal activity going on, so I will not sit there a defend no mine, period. But at the same time, in any corporation there is a lot of illegal activity going on. If I had to put emphasis on anything, I would talk about the damn oil. I would call that 'blood oil'. The oil is killing more people. Diamonds is the least of our worries. All that (attention on the diamond trade) is really to (detract) you from what is really going on."
With the diamond trade having taken so much negative press (and sometimes incorrectly so) the next commodities in the firing line are gold and rubies which I will report on next...
Conflict diamonds, also known as "blood" diamonds, are rough diamonds used by rebel movements or their allies to finance armed conflict aimed at undermining legitimate governments. Profits from the trade in conflict diamonds, worth billions of dollars, were used to buy arms during the devastating wars in Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Liberia and Sierra Leone.
While the wars in Angola, Liberia and Sierra Leone are now over and fighting in the DRC has decreased, the problem of conflict diamonds hasn’t gone away. Diamonds mined in rebel-held areas in Côte d’Ivoire, a West African country in the midst of a volatile conflict, are reaching the international diamond market. Conflict diamonds from Liberia are also being smuggled into neighbouring countries and exported as part of the legitimate diamond trade.
Congo is another troublespot. In January (2007), the World Diamond Council, the industry body, said it had received reports of conflict diamonds being smuggled from Congo via Zimbabwe to South Africa where they were certified as legitimate and exported. Zimbabwe's government denies the allegations. Although Liberia's civil war is over, its diamonds are still subject to UN sanctions.
The Kimberley Process is an international certification scheme that regulates the trade in rough diamonds. It was launched in 2000 by several southern African countries and a total of 71 countries have now signed up (as of Nov 2006). Its aim is to prevent the trade in conflict diamonds, while helping to protect the legitimate trade in rough diamonds. Governments have to keep records tracking diamonds from source to their polished form. In theory this prevents conflict diamonds from entering the supply chain. A Kimberley Process certificate, guaranteeing diamonds as conflict-free, accompanies all official shipments of rough diamonds to and from participating countries. To support this, the international diamond industry agreed to a voluntary system of warranties to ensure diamonds continued to be tracked right up to the point of sale. All invoices for the sale of rough diamonds should now include a written guarantee that states they are conflict-free.
In the late 1990s, at the height of the problems, conflict diamonds, mainly from Congo, Angola and Sierra Leone, made up between 4% and 15% of the global trade. The diamond industry says that fewer than 1% of diamonds on the market now are from war zones. Gemstone revenue has the potential to heal as well as hurt, the industry says, pointing out that Sierra Leone has now been at peace since 2002 and its diamond industry generates $140m in tax and export revenue. But critics say 1% of a $60bn global market is still too much.
Legal diamond trade ploughs money back into the country they came from. In countries such as Botswana and South Africa, diamond revenues have paid for schools, roads and clinics. Diamond revenues enable every child in Botswana to receive free education up to the age of 13 and an estimated 5 million people have access to appropriate healthcare globally thanks to revenues from diamonds.
Instead of boycotting diamonds altogether, consumers are being urged to ask retailers whether their diamonds are conflict-free.
After much controversy by the media such as the film Blood Diamond and by singer Kanye West the rapper Akon, who actually owns a diamond mine, defends diamond mining in an interview with MTV: "The argument has been blown out of proportion, I’m sure in certain mines and in certain areas there's probably some illegal activity going on, so I will not sit there a defend no mine, period. But at the same time, in any corporation there is a lot of illegal activity going on. If I had to put emphasis on anything, I would talk about the damn oil. I would call that 'blood oil'. The oil is killing more people. Diamonds is the least of our worries. All that (attention on the diamond trade) is really to (detract) you from what is really going on."
With the diamond trade having taken so much negative press (and sometimes incorrectly so) the next commodities in the firing line are gold and rubies which I will report on next...
Bespoke Jewellery
At Pomeroi Fine Jewellers in Royal Tunbridge Wells, our aim is to help you shop for jewellery easily. If you have something particular in mind, feel free to contact us to discuss it. With our on-site workshop in Royal Tunbridge Wells shop, nothing is impossible!
If you can’t find the jewellery you are looking for on our website, please telephone us on 01892 616658 with your request.
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