NEWS BRIEFING: 27 September 2026

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

💰'China's Gold Imports Top 1,000 Tons on Strong Investment Demand'
Yihui Xie, 22 September 2026, Bloomberg: China shipped in more than 1,000 tonnes of gold in the first eight months of 2026, already beating its total for the whole of 2025, as the pullback from January's record, a firm yuan, larger import quotas and about 44 tonnes of ETF buying pulled bullion into the country.
www.bloomberg.com

💰'Supply glut, lab-grown alternatives: What's behind the fall of diamond prices to record lows'
26 September 2026, CNBC: A typical one-carat natural diamond now sells for about $3,898, roughly half its 2021 price of $8,007, as post-pandemic stockpiles and lab-grown stones (61 per cent of 2025 engagement-ring sales) push miners such as De Beers to cut output, including suspending the Venetia mine.
www.cnbc.com

💰'Gold Tilts Lower as Iran Impasse Continues to Fan Rate-Hike Bets'
24 September 2026, Bloomberg: Bullion eased back towards the low $4,300s an ounce, still about a fifth below January's record, as the stand-off with Iran kept oil and inflation worries alive and traders raised their bets on a second Federal Reserve rate rise.
www.bloomberg.com

💰'Current price of silver as of Monday, September 21, 2026'
21 September 2026, Fortune: Silver traded at around $65 an ounce ahead of the US–China summit, well below the $80-plus levels reached earlier in the year and moving with the market's expectations for Fed tightening.
fortune.com

💰'Pat McGrath partners with Pandora for a beauty-inspired jewellery collection'
Hannah Silver, 22 September 2026, Wallpaper*: Pandora's first collaboration with make-up artist Pat McGrath is a 17-piece range of charms and rings shaped as lipsticks, glossy lips and hearts, designed to be layered and collected and launching worldwide on 8 October at €39 to €199.
www.wallpaper.com

💰'Tiffany & Co. Unveils the Fall Expression of Blue Book 2026: Hidden Garden'
Lucy Rees, 18 September 2026, Galerie Magazine: Nathalie Verdeille closes Tiffany's three-part 2026 Blue Book with an autumn chapter rooted in Jean Schlumberger's 1962 Two Fruit clip, featuring tsavorite dahlias, paillonné-enamel pineapples with Sri Lankan sapphires, a Fancy Yellow diamond Nest suite and Paradise Bird brooches centred on a 37-carat rose quartz and a 31-carat chalcedony.
galeriemagazine.com

💰'Bold cuts mean this season's high jewellery is easy on the eye'
Hannah Silver, 21 September 2026, Wallpaper*: A survey of autumn/winter high jewellery argues the season is defined by unusual cuts and saturated stones, from Boghossian's jadeite 'Queens of Time' earrings and Hermès' spike-diamond Clou de Forge Lumière necklace to Boucheron's morganite and sapphire-glass ring.
www.wallpaper.com

💎'From Cummerbunds to Chatelaines: Here Are the NYFW Trends Worth Noting'
Alexis Badiyi, 23 September 2026, Marie Claire: New York's spring 2027 shows brought back the chatelaine, the Victorian necklace hung with small useful objects, in forms from Fforme and ANH Studio's miniature perfume bottles to Kallmeyer's sterling basket pendant and Róhe's 19th-century Dutch silver charms.
www.marieclaire.com

💎'Kate Middleton wears sentimental royal jewels as she glides into Digger premiere in floor-skimming gown'
Ahad Sanwari, 22 September 2026, Hello!: At the Royal Film Performance of Tom Cruise's Digger, the Princess of Wales wore the Queen Mother's pearl-rope sautoir with its heart-shaped amethyst and diamond pendant, a 1923 gift from Queen Alexandra, alongside Princess Diana's Collingwood pearl drop earrings.
www.hellomagazine.com

💎'TIFF 2026 red carpet: Penélope Cruz is the belle of the Toronto International Film Festival — plus more celebrity looks'
Elizabeth Di Filippo, 16 September 2026, Yahoo Style Canada: Toronto's red carpets were led by Penélope Cruz in Chanel high jewellery at the Tribute Awards and diamonds, rubies and sapphires at the La Bola Negra premiere, with Julianne Moore in Messika diamonds and Amanda Seyfried in a turquoise-bead gold necklace.
ca.style.yahoo.com

🏛️'Ancient gold bracelet could be part of "Fisherman's Jewels"'
Mark Milligan, 22 September 2026, HeritageDaily: A US owner has repatriated to Mexico an 8cm fragment of a Zapotec gold bracelet decorated with a spider monkey and dating from 1200–1521, and INAH will analyse the metal to test whether it belongs to the pre-Hispanic hoard a fisherman pulled from a Veracruz river 50 years ago.
www.heritagedaily.com

🏛️'Roman silver hoard with 45 coins and a gold ring found on Sweden's Gotland'
Dario Radley, 23 September 2026, Archaeology News Online Magazine: A survey ahead of a Swedish army expansion on Gotland found a gold finger ring buried with 45 Roman silver denarii, the ring's mid-fifth-century style dating the cache to around AD 450 and showing Roman coinage still circulating in the Baltic centuries after it was struck.
archaeologymag.com

🏛️'Going Underground: The Jewels of Bernhard Schobinger'
Jacqueline Huynh Young, 31 August 2026, American Craft: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston is staging the first major US retrospective of Swiss jeweller Bernhard Schobinger, on view until 3 January 2027, surveying five decades of work that sets precious stones and metals beside barbed wire, fishing lures, asphalt and broken toys.
craftcouncil.org

🏛️'Your semester one cheat sheet to Manchester's art scene'
Amelia Laithwaite, 16 September 2026, The Mancunion: Manchester Jewellery Week runs across the city until 4 October with exhibitions, talks and workshops, anchored by 'City of Suffragettes', a contemporary jewellery show at Manchester Craft and Design Centre, open until 24 December, that marks the city's part in winning votes for women.
mancunion.com