Fukui Shell Nucleus Factory uses patented technology to trace cultured pearls GIA Cultured Pearl report & RFID technology ...

A great irony of pearl history is that the least expensive cultured pearl product in the market today rivals the quality of the most expensive natural pearls ever found. The price-value anomaly is ...

(IDEX Online) - GIA grading reports on cultured pearls will now include traceability information, thanks to a tiny chip ...

After Mikimoto founder Kokichi Mikimoto invented cultured pearl technology, it made pearls accessible to the masses. Mikimoto’s goal was “to adorn the necks of all women around the world with ...

Saltwater, damp salt air, and chlorine can also be harmful to cultured pearls, whereas sand is extremely abrasive, so be sure ...

Inspired by their natural beauty and contemporary charm, three pearl jewellery designers explain their love of this eternally elegant gemstone ...

Now we see pearls almost as accessories, relatively inexpensive decorations to accompany more costly gemstones. Before the creation of cultured pearls in the early 1900s, natural pearls were so ...

Pearls form when oysters secrete layers of nacre around irritants. There are natural and cultured pearls, with natural ones being rarer and more valuable. The article discussed pearl formation ...

There's something Edwardian about the newest season's high jewellery collections from Chaumet, Mikimoto, Dolce & Gabbana and ...

What neither Plant nor Cartier could know was that just months earlier, Japanese entrepreneur Kokichi Mikimoto had industrialized the technology to create cultured pearls. Mikimoto was soon mass ...

Cast from sterling silver, these hoops drop to a baroque freshwater cultured pearl – each one is totally unique. From the coveted Alhambra jewellery collection first created in 1968, these four ...

More than 73% of consumers want to know where and how their jewellery was made. Pearl Academy is packed with captivating ...