Jewellery & Watch @ Spring Fair Preview

Alexander Thurlow By the time you read this, it’ll have been a very long two years since the last Jewellery & Watch Show… but it’s back! Now a glittering part of the MODA sector within Spring Fair, it plans to kick off the new season in style.

Spring Fair, the wholesale marketplace for home, gift, fashion, design and source, and home to Jewellery & Watch, is taking place from 6th to 9th February 2022 at NEC Birmingham. To set the tone, organiser Hyve has announced Empowering Change as the show’s manifesto for 2022, a manifesto that aims to set the agenda for the live show’s Inspiring Retail Stage as well as a year-round content programme.

Suzanne Ellingham, head of content at Hyve Group, says: “Retail is in a state of incredible transformation. Technology enables customers to shop anywhere, any time and in any way that they want. The competitive landscape has changed, and even online retailers are now facing increasing costs and hostile marketing conditions. In a time when staying the same means you’re moving backwards, expecting different results from the same tactics doesn’t make sense. I’m really excited about this year’s Empowering Change editorial theme. The schedule will be packed full of incredible speakers and participants, helpful and inspiring insights, newness as well as the essential trends for 2022 and beyond.”

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Targeting visitors across all of Spring Fair’s sectors and created as a platform to champion retail, the Inspiring Retail Stage’s full schedule of live content from experts in their field will provide insights, trend reports, keynote conversations and panel discussions on the key topics facing retail. Each of the four days of the show will cover a dedicated theme correlated to the Empowering Change manifesto.

Giving the show a welcome fillip ahead of the event, in December, Spring Fair was presented with the prestigious Trade Show of the Century Award at the Association of Event Organisers Centenary Party & Awards. Julie Driscoll, Hyve’s divisional managing director for retail, engineering and manufacturing, said: “I’m so delighted! This prestigious award goes to all employees and suppliers who have helped keep this brilliant exhibition delivering for its customers over the last 75 years.”

Georgia Wang

Rodney Holman

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Jewellery & Watch – our preview of this year’s attendees.

Midhaven

Alexander Thurlow

This ever-blooming business continues to delight customers with its beautiful Love Nature, Love Flowers range. With the past year opening eyes to the wonder of the outdoors, this new nature-inspired collection ensures Alexander Thurlow’s products remain as in demand as they have been for the last 72 years.

Herbert Marx

This year, Herbert Marx launches its brand-new handmade silver and gold chain collections, which offer exceptional quality and a wide variety of designs. In addition, it continues to offer “the widest and best range of gold, gemstone and diamond jewellery (both 9ct and 18ct) anywhere in the UK… and has the most incredible B2B website, free next-day UK delivery on stock items.”

Georgia Wang

Established in 2019, Georgia’s pearl jewellery is designed “without borders of age, gender or stereotype.” Two collections will be unveiled: Quintessence and Burial of Rose. The former takes its concept from The Little Mermaid, the flowers referencing Ariel, the pearls refer to her tears and the bubbles in the sea. The latter takes the dark background of the Middle Ages, with vines twining to create baroque-like pieces.

Rodney Holman

“We will have lots of fantastic new designs at Spring Fair for you to tempt your customers. With brighter times on the horizon, there should be plenty of reasons for people to treat themselves and loved ones to fabulous jewellery. As always, there is no minimum order and delivery is free.”

Midhaven

Featuring created opals in vibrant blue tones or subtle white, the Opalique collection comprises earrings, pendants and bracelets in 925 sterling silver with rhodium-plated finish. Earrings range from simple understated studs to classic drops, with themes of animals, love and wellbeing.

Sea Gems

Silver Origins boutique jewellery brand features contemporary handcrafted 925 sterling silver jewellery designed by Sea Gems in Cornwall. Inspired by the iconic Cornish landscape, Sea Gems has created unique designs combining high polished and textured surfaces with gold vermeil or coloured gemstones to enhance the beauty and story of each piece. Collections include the intricate Beachcomber range, delicate botanical and wildlife pieces as well as fun, whimsical motifs that celebrate moments of love and life.

Sea Gems

Lido Pearls

Cavendish French

Buvy

Cavendish French

For 2022, this independent designer of handcrafted contemporary sterling silver and stone set jewellery will launch its new Rainbow collection into its micro pavé set cubic zirconia range. This will include green, red and yellow stones. Also showcasing are many new silver designs plated in 18 carat yellow gold.

Buvy

Founded in Sydney in 2019 by designer Paven Rayat, this classic and minimal jewellery brand has a vision to create beautiful and high-quality pieces. Buvy’s next collection, Adapt, was created with the notion of pieces taking on a new form with the crevices they sit in. Buvy “explores the journey of how slowly things change, collide and adapt into something more beautiful than we could have imagined.”

Lido Pearls

Beautiful, timeless and elegant, pearls have always been perfect finishing accessories for brides and bridesmaids, and Lido will showcase over 1,600 designs, including statement pieces as well as delicate pretty pearl and CZ sets. The theme for 2022 from Lido will be #fallinlovewithpearls, a line that will appear in all marketing and social media posts this year.

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Reeves & Reeves Amber Hall

Kali Ma

H2on at Midhaven Scream Pretty

Reeves & Reeves

Reeves & Reeves will introduce a new collection of sterling silver charm necklaces with a selection of pearls and textured silver and 18ct gold vermeil charms. The design gives customers the fun of choosing and swapping charms on the chains, which feature a contemporary large link. Team with hoop earrings to finish the look.

Amber Hall

This well-established wholesale company specialises in Baltic amber jewellery. Family run, its website is trade only and allows you to browse through its catalogue range as well as additional products both in amber and other gemstones such as turquoise, amethyst and moldavite stones.

Scream Pretty

The signature playful style is clear in Mismatched Huggies, the latest designs added to the extensive curated ear collections. This updated take on the huggie features twin 18ct gold-plated sterling silver hoops, one with a hinged clasp and an attached semi-hoop, creating the illusion of two piercings. Available in a riot of coloured crystals, turquoise and clear stones, one hoop is studded in CZ stones, the other polished. Other highlights include trend-led shell and pearl, colour-pop enamel and Prairie collections.

Kali Ma

Following two 2021 key trends, Kali Ma has seen a massive increase in silver ring sales in general, but particularly in gem set ranges. Vintage retro styles featuring oxidised details and motifs, such as lotus flower accents, are among the most elaborate styles. Bright multi-coloured stone-set silver ranges – including CZs – have also expanded with delicate necklaces being a favourite.

H2on at Midhaven

This Italian-made and -designed collection of men’s jewellery has many new styles for 2022. In stainless steel with 18ct gold plate, diamond and/or leather details, the highquality design-led line is all about style and opulence.

Perfection Jewellery

The UK-based manufacturer Perfection Jewellery offers thousands of styles of diamond jewellery – from simple studs and tennis bracelets to large dramatic crosses. It finds creative ways of making diamond jewellery look as awe-inspiring as possible, while providing fantastic value… without sacrificing quality.

RE Morrish

This family-run British manufacturing jewellers based in Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter offers over 7,000 products at the show. Covering many styles, the jewellery ranges from Roman, mediaeval and Tudor to Georgian, Victorian, Edwardian and Art Deco. Check out, too, the gents’ signet rings, Celtic designs and gem-set and diamond-set pieces, all made in Morrish’s workshops, in silver and gold.

Perfection Jewellery

RE Morrish London Pearl

PoM925

London Pearl

With good movement on its silver ranges, London Pearl has rapidly expanded its silver offer and now has several major multiples running silver lines with the company, both with and without pearl content. The simple, traditional lines are proving particularly popular.

PoM925

The new collection plays with tactile surfaces and mixed metallic tones to create imaginative designs, with a core sterling silver range adding timeless pieces. Unexpected details feature throughout, with a laidback elegance, true to PoM’s signature style. Golden hues add a hint of luxe, while worn finishes ensure each piece is understated yet chic, whether classic or contemporary. The addition of crystals and gemstones creates extra sparkle.

Town Talk

Town Talk has been developing the art of maintaining sparkling silver and jewellery for over 125 years. Superior quality and beautiful presentation give its jewellery care particular appeal. Visit the stand to see the complete range, including the new antitarnish jewellery pouches.

Studex

With over 40 years’ experience, Studex’s comprehensive ear and nose piercing programme with training and support helps retail partners offer a piercing service in their business. Piercing trends for 2022 will see the continuation of the curated ear in high shine 9ct gold with diamonds, and jewellers can showcase a range of different sizes and styles of earring.

Studex

LOX @ Goodman Bros

Pure Jewels at Pure London, 2022

Pure Jewels is a new destination at this trend-led show, showcasing collections by fine jewellery designers, as well as watches, components and loose gems. Pure regularly welcomes top UK jewellery retailers, press and influencers, who attend to gather product inspiration and source new collections for the seasons ahead.

The show’s organiser, Hyve, is offering a 2.5% discount to all NAJ members who wish to exhibit at Pure London, which takes place 17th to 19th July, 2022 at Olympia, London.

Connoisseurs, Lox and Inverness at Goodman Bros.

Alongside Connoisseurs, the much-loved and comprehensive range of jewellery cleaning products, Goodman Bros. will show Lox, the Secure Lifting Earring Back – patented, British design and manufacture – which fits all types of earrings and post diameters and is hypo-allergenic, comfortable, safe and secure. New to the Lox family is a unique hygiene seal for retailers to hygiene-protect earrings sold and accept returns. Inverness supports businesses thinking of adding the ear-piercing service into their stores with its safe, gentle ear-piercing system. Perfect for the curated ear look, Inverness is safe to pierce the lobe and cartilage using a hand-pressured system.

Inverness @ Goodman Bros.