NEWS BRIEFING: 13 November 2026

A curated edit of the week's global jewellery news - national and international - compiled for industry insight and trend monitoring.

💰'Botswana to double De Beers stake in Anglo sale'
Brian Benza and Olivia Kumwenda-Mtambo, 9 November 2026, Reuters (via Business Day): President Duma Boko says Botswana will lift its holding from 15 to 30 per cent and become De Beers' largest single shareholder under Anglo American's sale to the Gareth Penny-led consortium, with Richemont, Signet and several sightholders reportedly in talks to join.
www.businessday.co.za

💰'China ramps up gold purchases, posting the biggest increase in 3 years'
Zhou Lanxu, 8 November 2026, China Daily Hong Kong: The People's Bank of China added 830,000 ounces in October, its 24th straight month of buying and the largest monthly rise since September 2023, taking reserves to 78.3 million ounces even as lower prices shrank gold's share of the total to about 7.9 per cent.
www.chinadailyhk.com

💰'Gold Set for Biggest Weekly Gain Since August After US Midterms'
6 November 2026, Bloomberg: Gold was heading for its strongest week since August as the metal recovered from its late-October low in the wake of the US midterm elections.
www.bloomberg.com

💰'Gold purchases touch Rs 60,000 crore on Dhanteras as prices lift sales value'
Pioneer News Desk, 8 November 2026, The Pioneer: India's Dhanteras gold sales were put at about Rs 60,000 crore, up 15–20 per cent by value on flat volumes, as buyers traded down to lightweight 14- and 18-carat pieces, small coins and old-gold exchanges with prices about a fifth below January's record.
dailypioneer.com

💰'Kalyan Jewellers Q2 Profit Surges 64% To ₹427 Crore, Revenue Climbs 31% To ₹10,323 Crore'
FPJ Web Desk, 10 November 2026, Free Press Journal: Kalyan's September-quarter revenue rose 31.4 per cent to ₹10,322.6 crore and net profit to ₹427.1 crore, though ₹73.5 crore of that came from a one-off property gain.
www.freepressjournal.in

💰'Help! I Can't Stop Blushing At Yerin Ha & Michael B. Jordan's Holiday Campaign'
Grace Wehniainen, 4 November 2026, Bustle: David Yurman's 2026 holiday campaign, 'Share the Warmth', casts Bridgerton's Yerin Ha opposite Michael B. Jordan in a 40-second film of a snowbound game of Go Fish.
www.bustle.com

💰'Carina Hardy Jewelry Rebrands As Rose & Sean'
Anthony DeMarco, 2 November 2026, Forbes: The Bali-made label founded in 2024 by Carina Hardy, daughter of John Hardy, and Tavish Gallagher took the founders' middle names as Rose & Sean from 6 November, keeping its studio and mainly online sales model.
www.forbes.com

💰'Hannah Martin and Joan Jett on their punk new jewellery collection'
Charlotte Gunn, 12 November 2026, Wallpaper*: Marking 45 years of 'I Love Rock 'n' Roll', Hannah Martin's 14-piece collaboration with Joan Jett reworks a pacifier necklace as Brâncuși-like orbs and adds a black-diamond heart, priced from £300 to £20,280.
www.wallpaper.com

💰'Artist Quentin Jones's New Jewelry Collection Is Surreal, Sculptural, and Playful'
Maxine Arnheiter, 9 November 2026, ELLE Decor: Nocturne, the artist's first jewellery line, carries the eyes, hands and celestial motifs of her tapestries into black-and-white pearl and onyx pieces such as a Lunar Tides collar.
www.elledecor.com

💰'Wempe's New Jewelry Collection Celebrates The Art Of Goldsmithing'
Anthony DeMarco, 1 November 2026, Forbes: Creative director Patrick Sieroslawski's first Wempe Atelier line, au:thentic, builds 18-carat gold pieces from the humble jump ring, priced from $2,595 to $28,375, with three further chapters planned.
www.forbes.com

💰'Emily P. Wheeler Launches The Sphere Jewelry Collection'
Anthony DeMarco, 1 November 2026, Forbes: Nearly three years in development, Wheeler's Sphere collection plays a single spherical form through changes of colour, texture and material, at $5,900 to $12,500.
www.forbes.com

💰'"I'm lucky to have grown up around artists": Cora Sheibani on her path to becoming a jeweller'
Caroline Roux, 10 November 2026, The Art Newspaper: The London jeweller, daughter of Swiss dealer Bruno Bischofberger, talks about working mainly in gold from her Mayfair studio and why she sees time as the real luxury.
www.theartnewspaper.com

💰'The New Rules Of Fall 2026 Jewelry—From Mixed Metals To '90s Nostalgia'
Laia Farran Graves, 5 November 2026, Forbes: Statement pieces worn every day, runway colour from Chanel and Dior, turquoise tipped for next year, a '90s return of velvet ribbons and T-bars, and gold mixed freely with silver are the autumn's defining jewellery moves.
www.forbes.com

💰'Why Luxury Houses Are Ditching Gold Chains for Cord Jewelry'
Rima Suqi, 29 October 2026, Galerie: With gold dear after this year's record, houses from Hermès and Pomellato to Bulgari and Tiffany are hanging pendants and charms on silk, cotton and leather cords instead of chains.
galeriemagazine.com

💎'Queen Sonja Chooses a Sentimental Tiara From King Harald'
Kristin Contino, 5 November 2026, Marie Claire (via Yahoo): At the Governors' Gala at Oslo's Royal Palace on 3 November, Queen Sonja wore her Modern Gold Tiara, diamond-studded gold strips with an interchangeable centre stone that King Harald gave her for her 60th birthday, with its matching collar.
www.yahoo.com

💎'Every Must-See Look From the 2026 LACMA Art + Film Gala Red Carpet'
Natalie Michie, 8 November 2026, W Magazine: W's gallery from the 7 November gala credits Tiffany on Anya Taylor-Joy, Boucheron on Salma Hayek Pinault and Parker Posey, Nikos Koulis on Vittoria Ceretti and Sarah Paulson, Repossi on Iris Law and Chopard on Sofia Carson and Ashley Park.
www.wmagazine.com

💎'Queen Letizia looks incredible in off-the-shoulder navy dress at state dinner'
Faye James, 4 November 2026, Hello!: Opening the Ibero-American Summit with a dinner at Madrid's Royal Palace, Queen Letizia chose aquamarine teardrop earrings and a sapphire bracelet rather than a tiara.
www.hellomagazine.com

🏛️'Bulgari Pink Diamond Fetches $14 Million at Christie's Magnificent Jewels Auction'
Rebecca Anderson, 10 November 2026, Galerie: The 24-carat emerald-cut fancy intense pink Bulgari ring, bought in India in the 1950s and held by one European noble family for more than 70 years, closed Christie's Geneva week at about $14 million.
galeriemagazine.com

🏛️'Romanov sapphire bracelet smashes auction estimate, sells for $4.9 million'
12 November 2026, CNN: The 197-carat Ceylon sapphire worn by Empress Maria Feodorovna, now set as a bracelet, sold for about $4.9 million at Sotheby's Royal & Noble sale in Geneva on 11 November, well above its estimate.
dition.cnn.com

🏛️'Inside the $10 Million Sotheby's Auction of Pauline Karpidas's High Jewelry Collection'
Lucy Rees, 6 November 2026, Galerie: Seventy jewels from the art patron's collection, led by a JAR chalcedony and pink-diamond ring estimated at $2.5–3.5 million and including pieces bought at the Warhol and Duchess of Windsor sales, go to a dedicated Sotheby's New York sale on 8 December.
galeriemagazine.com

🏛️'Near 3,000-year-old gold treasure goes on display'
Sophie Parker, 12 November 2026, BBC News (via Yahoo): Three Late Bronze Age sheet-gold bracelets found by a detectorist near Malmesbury, two deliberately flattened in what may have been a ritual offering, are on show at the town's Athelstan Museum until February.
www.yahoo.com

🏛️'One month to go until London Museum opens its new Smithfield home'
Ian Mansfield, 28 October 2026, ianVisits: The London Museum opens free at Smithfield's General Market on 28 November, with a new Goldsmiths' Gallery putting the entire Cheapside Hoard on permanent display for the first time; opening-day tickets are bookable now.
www.ianvisits.co.uk

🏛️'Royal blingfest to bring 500 years of jewellery to the King's Gallery'
Ian Mansfield, 27 October 2026, ianVisits: 'Royal Jewellery: From Coronations to Keepsakes' (25 June 2027 – 19 March 2028) will show more than 300 pieces at Buckingham Palace, including George IV's Diamond Diadem and Queen Victoria's Small Diamond Crown, with standard tickets at £24 and general sale open since 3 November.
www.ianvisits.co.uk