Vicenzaoro September 2026: Access and Dates

Vicenzaoro runs from 4 to 8 September with roughly 1,300 exhibiting brands from 38 countries.

Two things make this edition different from the last September fair: the new central hall is finally working, and the T.Gold technology show has moved inside the same Expo Centre.

One thing to establish before booking a flight. The main fair is a business-to-business event. Admission is free and registration is compulsory, but the badge is issued to qualified jewellery professionals.

Collectors have a separate door. VO Vintage runs 4 to 7 September in Hall 8.1, it is aimed squarely at the public, and entry is free with prior registration.

The main fair is not a jewellery exhibition you can walk into

Vicenzaoro describes its September edition as a platform reserved for operators in the sector.

Qualified visitors are buyers, retailers, wholesalers, suppliers, manufacturers, designers, trade bodies, journalists and others whose work connects to jewellery, watches, stones, packaging or production technology. Registration asks for professional and company details, and the organiser can decline.

Being a serious private client of a maison does not create a right of entry. That sounds severe until you see the floor: this is where retailers place orders for next year and where manufacturers negotiate capacity, and a hall full of spectators would change what can be discussed at a stand.

The show opens 10am to 6.30pm from Friday 4 to Monday 7 September, and closes at 5pm on Tuesday 8. Worth noting if you have built the last afternoon into a schedule.

Hall 2 changes how the fair is walked

The new two-storey Hall 2 works fully for the first time this September. It was built as a central junction, joining the different product communities through covered walkways.

The design matters because Vicenzaoro is organised by market and by production category, not as one undifferentiated floor. Hall 1 carries watches and related products. Halls 6 and 7 hold much of the high jewellery and design.

Announced names include Damiani, Roberto Coin, Fope, Crivelli, Pasquale Bruni, Recarlo and Annamaria Cammilli. Professional visitors are expected from more than 130 countries.

The bigger layout makes crossing easier and browsing less efficient. Someone interested in finished high jewellery, loose stones, private-label manufacturing and packaging is now moving between four genuinely different commercial worlds in a day.

The Jewellery Connect app is the answer to that. Registered visitors can search exhibitors, save companies, request appointments and build a schedule before landing.

T.Gold puts the machinery in the same building

T.Gold occupies Hall 4, bringing production equipment and technical services into the venue that shows the finished pieces.

The programme covers additive manufacturing, three-dimensional printing, industrial automation, quality control, alloys, casting, micro-welding, precision machining and technologies tied to circularity and efficiency.

This is what separates Vicenzaoro from a fair concerned only with presentation. A buyer can look at a collection in the morning and, in the afternoon, look at the equipment that will decide whether a variation of it can be made at all.

To a private client the machinery can look like someone else’s business. It is not. Traceability, consistency between pieces, repair, small-series production and the honest boundary between hand work and digitally assisted manufacture are all decided in Hall 4, and all of them eventually reach the invoice.

Having it in September also helps maisons developing prototypes or changing production systems ahead of next year’s launches.

CIBJO holds its centenary congress here

The World Jewellery Confederation, CIBJO, meets in Vicenza from 4 to 7 September, with more than 400 delegates. The organisation is a hundred years old this year.

The agenda runs through natural and laboratory-grown diamonds, coloured stones, pearls, precious metals, gem laboratories, responsible sourcing and the supply chain.

CIBJO is not a trend body. Its commissions feed the international terminology and standards the trade actually uses, including the Blue Books covering diamonds, gemstones, pearls and precious metals.

Which is why the congress matters beyond the delegates in the room. The words permitted to describe a stone, a treatment, a laboratory-grown product or a sourcing claim shape what a retailer can put on a certificate, and therefore what a client is told at the counter.

Access to individual sessions may need accreditation, an invitation or separate registration. A Vicenzaoro badge is not a key to every CIBJO meeting.

VO Vintage is the public route, and it is a real one

VO Vintage runs Friday 4 to Monday 7 September in Hall 8.1, from 10am to 6pm, free on prior registration. This year it brings 52 dealers: 29 in jewellery, 23 specialists in watches.

Collectors do not need to present themselves as retailers or manufacturers to get in.

The separation is worth being clear about. VO Vintage is not a side entrance into the trade halls. It is its own marketplace with its own exhibitors, talks and audience, running in parallel.

Bring identification, register before travelling, and check whether the talks or valuations you want require a reserved place.

And a free public fair does not suspend the usual homework. Condition reports, service history, replaced parts, gemstone treatments, signatures, provenance and return terms decide whether a purchase was a good one. The atmosphere never has.

Vicenza and Geneva overlap this week

Vicenzaoro opens while Geneva Watch Days is still running, which forces a choice for anyone who covers both.

Geneva Watch Days is built around new watch releases, independent maisons, hotel showrooms and a public pavilion. Vicenzaoro covers the jewellery chain end to end: manufacturers, finished collections, stones, machinery, packaging, services.

They overlap on the calendar and almost nowhere else.

A watch collector will usually get more from Geneva plus VO Vintage. A jewellery retailer, a brand founder or anyone sourcing will get more from the Vicenzaoro floor. Doing both properly means accepting a train and a lost half-day.

Book the meetings before you arrive

The fair is too big to treat every stand as a live option. The visitors who get value from it come with a list.

Finished jewellery: brands, new collections, wholesale terms.
Manufacturing: workshops, private label, available capacity.
Stones: diamonds, coloured gems, pearls, specialist dealers.
Technology: T.Gold machinery and technical systems.
Watches: current brands, and the separate VO Vintage market.
Standards: CIBJO sessions.

Each priority meeting wants a named contact, a hall, a stand number and a rough duration. A company name in a diary is not an appointment once the halls fill.

Take printed information as well. A supplier will ask about your market, your volumes, your distribution and your delivery dates before talking about price, and having the answers ready shortens a first meeting considerably.

One day works only for a narrow brief

A day is enough for an established buyer returning to known suppliers, or a journalist following four brands.

Two days is the realistic number for anyone looking at both the finished pieces and the production chain: one for commercial appointments, one for T.Gold, new suppliers, CIBJO and the follow-ups that come out of day one.

Public visitors doing only VO Vintage can work in an afternoon, though the better talks and the busier dealers can justify a second visit.

Hotels in Vicenza tighten during the fair. Verona, Padua and Venice give more choice and cost you a train each morning, which is fine unless you have accepted a nine o’clock appointment.

What to confirm before travelling

Badge: registered is not the same as approved.
Which event: Vicenzaoro, VO Vintage, or both.
Appointments: stand, contact and time confirmed through Jewellery Connect or directly.
Sessions: entry rules for CIBJO and anything with limited seats.
Tuesday: the main show closes at 5pm on 8 September.
Purchases: collectors should leave with invoices, condition details and written representations.

Luxury.it perspective

Vicenzaoro is worth understanding because it puts the finished jewel next to the skills, machines and relationships that let it exist at all. Very few fairs do both.

The access rules are what protect that. The main show is a working market and not a luxury shopping festival, and VO Vintage gives the public a genuine way in without asking the trade event to stop being one. Both halves are better for the arrangement.