Modern Jewelry Trends

The new list of international DTC sightholders has been announced and it’s official: 24 companies have been cut. No names have yet been announced, just numbers at this point. Rapaport is calling around to compile a list, available here. Rob Bates is also working the phones and reporting here. The official number from DTC is that there are 75 international sightholders, 18 fewer than the last contract period, and six of the 75 are new companies. The DTC also announced that there are 79 sightholders total when the Botswana and Namibia lists are included, which means there are four companies that are receiving sights in either Botswana or Namibia who aren’t on the international list. That’s where things get a bit complicated. Currently there are three companies on the Namibia DTC list who aren’t international DTC sightholders. That means one additional company on either the Namibia or Botswana list is not an international sightholder. The first of the new DTC sightholders to surface are Arslanian Cutting Works NWT of Canada and Dharmanandan Daimonds of India.

Many U.S sightholders made the new list, including Julius Klein, Lazare Kaplan, Louis Glick, Michael Werdiger, Premier Gem, and Stuller. Longtime U.S. sightholder Hasenfeld-Stein did not.

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