INSTORE Design Awards 2024 – Best Statement Piece

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4 months ago

May 20, 2024

INSTORE Staff

Jye’s International, Inc. (First Place & Retailer’s Choice)

Statement bracelet in 18K white gold with bezel-set round-cut aquamarines (9.82 TCW), round-cut rubies (9.82 TCW) and round-cut diamonds (3.86 TCW), $90,000

AME VAN DYKE:

Color, interest and a wow factor!

SMITHA SADANANDAN:

This statement bracelet whets the appetite for color with aquamarines, rubies and diamonds.

JENNY O’CONNOR CALLERI:

I love this bracelet.

Addessi Jewelers (Second Place)

Custom Twin Deco Splendor bracelet handmade in platinum and 18K white gold with a 3.02-carat oval-shape diamond, a 3.0-carat oval-shape Paraiba tourmaline from Mozambique, D-F color, VVS-VS-clarity diamonds (8.04 TCW), Paraiba tourmaline (0.57 TCW), and black onyx with a butterfly clasp deployment, $350,000

UNEEK (Third Place)

Sapphire solitaire necklace in 18K white gold with a 12.35-carat royal blue sapphire with a report from GIA, marquise-cut diamonds (4.67 TCW) and brilliant-cut diamonds (2.25 TCW), $207,81

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After almost 60 years in business, Breakiron Jewelers in Erie, Pennsylvania, was closing its doors. And the store’s owner, Linda Breakiron, was ready for it. She had run the store as its sole owner since the beginning of the millennium and was looking forward to a change. Of course, she called Wilkerson. Breakiron talked to other jewelers who had used Wilkerson and was satisfied with their response. “They always had positive feedback,” she recalls. With the sales, marketing and even additional inventory that Wilkerson provided, Breakiron insists she could never have accomplished her going-out-of-business sale without Wilkerson’s help. She’s now ready for the journey ahead, but looking back, she’d be sure to recommend Wilkerson. “They just made the whole process very seamless.”