John Jeffay

Editor in Chief at IDEX Online

Articles

Beyond Rare: The Rolex that "Didnâ€™t Exist"

1 week ago | idexonline.com | John Jeffay

(IDEX Online) - One of the world's rarest Rolex watches - so rare that many collectors didn't believe it actually existed - is to be sold by Sotheby's Geneva next month with an estimate of $800,000 to $1.6m. The Cosmograph Daytona, ref 16516, was made of platinum with a diamond-set mother-of-pearl dial in 1999 as a special commission - four Daytonas, each with a different dial - even though Rolex is famous for not producing privately commissioned limited editions.
KP Watchdog Video on "Unspoken Realities" of Diamond Mining

1 week ago | idexonline.com | John Jeffay |Ahmed Bin Sulayem

(IDEX Online) - A new video documents "the unspoken realities of large-scale diamond mining" in Sierra Leone, Lesotho, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Beyond Shining Illusions is produced by the Kimberley Process Civil Society Coalition (KP CSC), the umbrella organization that acts as a Kimberley Process (KP) observer. The KP CSC has, in the past, criticized the KP for not adequately addressing diamond mining-related violence and human rights abuses.
Muscle-loss concerns lead to new drug discovery platform

1 week ago | israel21c.org | Yulia Karra |Abigail Klein Leichman |John Jeffay

Israeli startup ProFuse Technology has launched a new drug discovery platform that seeks to prevent muscle mass loss caused by aging, cancer and the growing use of glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) weight-loss injections, such as Ozempic. Sarcopenia, age-related muscle loss, affects approximately 10 to 16 percent of individuals over 50 years of age, equating to around 13 million to 20 million Americans.
Gemfields Blames Market Conditions for $100m Loss

1 week ago | idexonline.com | John Jeffay

(IDEX Online) - Gemfields, the world's largest colored gemstone miner has reported a $100.8m loss for 2024 - and announced a $30m a rights issue to help secure its future. It suspended mining at its Kagem emerald mine in Zambia for up to six months last December. It was also forced to temporarily close its Montepuez ruby mine, in Mozambique due to civil unrest.
Cricket Anchors Shine in De Beers' Diamonds

1 week ago | idexonline.com | John Jeffay

(IDEX Online) - TV anchors covering India's Tata IPL cricket matches are wearing De Beers diamonds in what the company says is a first-of-its-kind initiative. Eleven women presenters are showcasing diamond jewelry in a collaboration with broadcasters JioHotstar and Star Sports. The Tata IPL (Indian Premier League) attracts record-breaking TV audiences with a series of evening games played between 10 city or state teams, that are shown live between March and May.
India's Polished Diamonds Export Down 17%

1 week ago | idexonline.com | John Jeffay

(IDEX Online) - India's polished exports fell by almost 17 per cent in the fiscal year ending March 2025, to $13.29bn, according to the Gem and Jewellery Export Promotion Council (GJEPC). That's among the lowest annual export figures for two decades, although not, as widely reported, the lowest of all. The GJEPC figure for 2005 was $12.3bn, up from $10.3bn in 2004. By comparison 2023/4 foreign sales totaled $15.97m.
Second Emerald Dealer Shot Dead by Sniper

1 week ago | idexonline.com | John Jeffay

(IDEX Online) - A Colombian emerald dealer has been shot dead at his home in the country's capital Bogota by a sniper. The death of Jesus Hernando Sanchez, aged 62, comes just eight months after his business partner Juan Sebastian Aguilar (also known as Pedro Pechuga), aged 58, was shot by a sniper in the same exclusive residential area. Both men had survived previous assassination attempts - in one case Sanchez lost an eye and a kidney, and spent two months in a coma.
Slight Dip for LVMH's Watch a

1 week ago | idexonline.com | John Jeffay

(IDEX Online) - LVMH reported a slight dip in revenue from its watches and jewelry division during the first quarter of 2025, down 1 per cent to EUR 2.48bn ($2.82bn). That's in stark contrast to a 27 per cent year-on-year increase in Q4 of 2024. But it performed better than all other divisions and was the only one to show growth. Wines and spirits fell 8 per cent, fashion and leather goods were down 4 per cent.
A simple lifesaver for hemorrhagic shock or cardiac arrest

1 week ago | israel21c.org | Abigail Klein Leichman |John Jeffay

A young man was brought to the emergency room of Hadassah University Medical Center in Jerusalem in traumatic cardiac arrest after shrapnel tore his inferior vena cava, the big vein in the middle of the belly. The young trauma surgeon opened the young man’s chest to start internal cardiac massage. At the same time, he instructed his team to use HemaShock, which they’d learned about when treating soldiers during army reserve duty.
Alrosa Mulling Underground Expansion at Jubilee

1 week ago | idexonline.com | John Jeffay

(IDEX Online) - Alrosa is expected to decide soon whether it will switch from open-pit to underground mining at the Jubilee pipe, part of its huge Aikhal mine, in Yakutia, north-eastern Russia. "We need to make an investment decision on Jubilee, on the transition to underground mining after the open pit is depleted," Pavel Marinychev, the company's CEO, said in an interview with the Yakutia 24 TV channel. Operations at the Jubilee kimberlite pipe (also known as Yubileinaya), began in 1990.