Market Report With Jennifer — Tahitians

Already high cultured pearl prices have now hit unheard-of price points, say dealers. Plus, a Chinese influencer inspired a frenzy for Tahitian pearls at the recently held Hong Kong trade fair that emptied cases within days and drove the buyout of a high-profile Tahitian pearl auction.

Hong Kong. March 1, 2019. In 2015, CPAA member Alexander Collins, of the eponymous loose Tahitian pearl company based in the Takaroa atoll in French Polynesia, experienced a problem to which only Tahitian pearl farmers could relate: he ran out of mature oysters to graft.