Stucki Jewelers Inc.

04/20/2026

A 🤯 mind blowing 297 carat rough diamond crystal. This dodecahedrone is worth an estimated 1.3 million dollars! We got to hold it in our diamond lab at DE BEERS in London.

04/20/2026

We, James Arbaugh & Nicole Arbaugh, were personally invited to DE BEERS in London after our Antwerp diamond buying trip. We got to participate in a hands-on natural diamond lab where we held a 297 ct dodecahedrone rough crystal before it's been cut into finished diamonds. It's estimated worth it's $1.3M! We were told once the lab began we couldn't leave the classroom. During this time security appeared around us without our notice and stayed through our hands on diamond time!
DE BEERS has 12,000 categories for sorting rough diamonds. Starting with industrial quality as the far majority of what they find and ending with single digit amounts of gem quality... to reiterate, that's 12,000 categories!!!

04/19/2026

We, James Arbaugh & Nicole Arbaugh, were personally invited to DE BEERS in London after our Antwerp diamond buying trip. We got to participate in a hands-on natural rough diamond lab and "PLAY" with all kinds of diamonds as they are seen directly out of the Earth (Fun Fact: if garnets are found geologists are optimistic diamonds are close by) The different shapes, sizes, colors and smoothness are caused by the factors of exposure of their journey up through the earth's layers! FASCINATING!!! The more you learn, the more you want to learn! More to come...

04/19/2026

We, James Arbaugh & Nicole Arbaugh, were personally invited to the offices of DE BEERS in London. It was a big honor, and we spent our second day learning both, through presentations, and a very fun, hands-on, diamond lab (w/security guards who would appear right before big specimens were brought out). More on that to come...

The presenters spoke on the beginnings of diamonds forming within the stars... before even the Earth existed.

Telling the amazing, miraculous journey a diamond takes from the earth's crust upward through volcanic eruptions, reaching the surface and beginning the journey to finding, cutting, polishing, setting, and eventually making its' way to you.

Emphasizing the rarity of a natural diamond and it's beautiful, uplifting story of survival and strength that gives an earth-grown diamond its' natural characteristics and color.

04/19/2026

We, James Arbaugh & Nicole Arbaugh, were invited to the London office of DE BEERS, following our Antwerp buying trip, to join a small group of independent jewelers from the U.S. who specialize in natural diamonds. This was a HUGE honor for us being recognized by a industry global leader. Our first night we had a meet & greet with the DE BEERS specialists in areas including education, rough diamonds, geology, marketing, sustainability, technology, gemology and more.

We also got up close and personal with the security. It was our first time having to show passports to eat dinner. More to come on our amazing time with the DE BEERS Group...

04/16/2026

We couldn't be happier COLOR diamonds are trending.
Bold colors like blues 💙, greens 💚, pinks 💗 & yellows 💛... as well as, gradient shades like champagne 🥂, cognac 🤎, lemon 🍋 & orange 🍊 that are included in the desert diamond trend. Here's some examples we saw in Antwerp. Some are coming home for customers, some for stock!
Do you have a favorite?

04/16/2026

04/15/2026

Communication is challenging since we're 9 hours different here in Belgium!
We've narrowed the selection...
we're calculating numbers, confirming prices & contacting our customers.
We snuck in a lunch and Shane Fruzza found a piano that said Play Me in the old Antwerp Stock Exchange building.
Then we bought diamond chocolates for our Antwerp diamond sales.
Quite the day!