The first week of October has brought a run of new jewellery collections, and most of them share one idea: colour and craft that tell a story. From Mumbai to New York, here are three launches worth knowing about.
Spice colours from ZOYA
ZOYA, the luxury jewellery atelier of India’s Tata Group, unveiled a high jewellery collection called “Her Again” on Tuesday 6 October, according to The Hindu BusinessLine. The theme is India’s spice heritage. Turmeric, mace, cardamom, saffron and rose are translated into gemstones such as rubellite, emerald, Madeira citrine, Odisha rose garnet, heliodor and yellow sapphire. The sitarist and composer Anoushka Shankar is the campaign’s muse.
Two necklaces stand out. The Eternal Ember is centred on a 5.4-carat cabochon Mandarin garnet and is made up of 748 stones, assembled over 2,112 hours. The Amber Bliss is built around a 38-carat Madeira citrine and took more than 1,000 hours of work. That warm, golden glow of citrine is easy to enjoy on a smaller scale too, as in our natural citrine oval solitaire pendant or the wider range of citrine pendants.
Zambian emeralds meet tanzanite
Also in Mumbai, the coloured-gemstone miner Gemfields has partnered with the Indian high jewellery house Shruti Sushma, run by mother and daughter Sushma and Shruti Chhajer. As Indian Jeweller reported on 6 October, the collection sets Zambian emeralds in 18-carat gold with diamonds. Highlights include earrings that pair emerald with tanzanite, a necklace with a single 4.12-carat emerald and 9.41 carats of white diamonds, and double hoops carrying 8.9 carats of emeralds. The pieces are sold on a price-on-request basis. Fresh green emerald beside violet-blue tanzanite is a striking match, and our emerald earrings, such as the natural emerald oval stud earrings, show how well the stone works close to the face.
A historic cut goes online
In the United States, the jewellery group Signet announced on 6 October that its online retailer Blue Nile has become the exclusive licensed North American retailer for Royal Asscher, the Dutch diamond house known for the cut that carries its family name. JCK reports that the first collection, Six by Royal Asscher, has 14 pieces with centre diamonds from one to five carats, in six of the family’s cuts: Asscher, oval, brilliant, cushion, pear and emerald. Prices range from about $8,600 for a pendant to $49,000 for a necklace. The move is part of Blue Nile’s wider shift towards natural diamonds.
Together, these launches suggest that this autumn’s jewellery is less about logos and more about stones with a story, whether that is a spice, a mine or a century-old cut.
Sources: The Hindu BusinessLine, “ZOYA launches ‘Her Again’ high jewellery collection inspired by Indian spices” (6 October 2026); Indian Jeweller, “Shruti Sushma, Gemfields Collaborate on New Coloured Gemstone Jewellery” (6 October 2026); JCK, “Blue Nile Partners With Royal Asscher to Sharpen Focus on Natural Diamonds” (6 October 2026).
