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CHAMOVSKIKH and Kierge jewelry houses exhibited their jewelry at the SPIEF

10 june 2024

The CHAMOVSKIKH jewelry house displayed its brand’s flagship jewelry, premium business accessories, as well as precious sculptures from the CHAMOVSKIKH Souvenir line at the company’s booth at the SPIEF.

The company’s experts told the SPIEF participants and visitors about current practices and prospects for investing in precious stones. The CHAMOVSKIKH company has the largest collection of investment-quality color stones in Russia. The unique samples of emeralds from Colombia, Zambia and Brazil were of particular interest to the visitors, as well as the rare Ural gemstones from the famous Mariinsky mine.

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“On the one hand, representing the Russian jewelry industry at the SPIEF is a great responsibility, on the other hand, it is an opportunity to show the company’s achievements to the international economic community,” said Yuri Tolmachev, Vice-President of CHAMOVSKIKH. “This allows us to be in line with the jewelry trends, develop innovative technologies and implement them in the manufacturing of our own jewelry. All this contributes to the sustainable development of the country’s jewelry industry when we both create analogues and are ahead of the world’s leading companies in many respects.”

The CHAMOVSKIKH jewelry house was founded in 1996 in Yekaterinburg. All the company’s high-tech production facilities are located in Russia. This allows the company to work on a self-sufficiency basis without depending on turbulence in global economic processes.

For 28 years, the jewelry house has established cooperation with leading jewelry industry players in India, Southeast Asia, Africa, Australia, and other parts of the world.

The artistic value of the CHAMOVSKIKH collections is confirmed by more than 70 prestigious international awards. The jewelry house sees its mission in reviving the glory of the Russian jewelry it had in the times of Carl Fabergé. To achieve this goal, CHAMOVSKIKH regularly participates in international exhibitions. In May 2024, the brand represented Russia and the Sverdlovsk Region at the 8th Russian-Chinese EXPO in Harbin, and the company’s plans are to demonstrate its innovative developments and production equipment at the international exhibition INNOPROM-2024 to be held in July.

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The 30-year-old Kierge jewelry house (Yakutsk) demonstrated its brand jewelry at the SPIEF; the brand widely uses the Yakut national motifs of traditional jewelry art and primal Turkic symbols. The beautifully decorated Diamonds of Yakutia booth and showcase with jewelry by the best jewelry designers of the northern region also attracted the visitors’ attention.

The Kierge jewelry house is a jewelry manufacturing and trading company that successfully develops its brand and receives jewelry prizes and awards for charity. The Kierge jewelry house has repeatedly become the prizewinner of various all-Russian and international competitions, including the Best Jewelry Store, the Best Showroom and Show-Case Design, and the Carl Fabergé International Jewelry Art Competition. The Kierge brand and its ethnic design in its modern interpretation are known and recognizable not only in Russia, but also in Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and China.

Galina Semyonova for Rough&Polished, St. Petersburg