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This month's main features:

De Beers Diamonds into Japan J-dex asked Anne-Marie Reeves to write about how the Japanese diamond jewellery market was developed by De Beers from the 1960s into the world's second largest buyer of diamond jewellery in the 21st century.
			Gerald Benney 'Benney may be the outstanding goldsmith of the 20th century. Nobody else has made so many important pieces for such a range of important people. Faberge and Lalique may have been more prolific and famous, but most of their gold and silver work was sold ready-made.' Book Review
Breakfast at Chopard At breakfast with Chopard's co-president and artistic director, Caroline Gruosi Scheufele, Claire Adler learns why celebrities aren't about to lose their allure and why jewellers like Chopard are coming out with some increasingly outrageous designs.