TrueFacet, a website where consumers can buy and sell fine jewelry and watches, now has a larger inventory and “concierge”-type services.

The watch brand has announced a long-term partnership that will see it become the official timekeeper of Major League Soccer and the U.S. Soccer Federation when the new season kicks off March 6.

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The Eastern High Court in Copenhagen has cleared the jewelry company of charges it breached the Denmark Securities Trading Act.

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Here are the five most-read stories published on NationalJeweler.com last week, according to Google Analytics.

Michelle Graff

Peter Smith says retailers need to be respectful when engaging in sensitive discussions on social media, or they run the risk of losing customers, vendors or employees with opposing viewpoints.

Michelle Graff

Here are the top five stories published on NationalJeweler.com last week, according to Google Analytics.

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The longtime owner of Ernest A. Glave Jeweler in downtown San Jose died Dec. 22 in a tragic accident.

Brecken Branstrator

It’s the largest faceted lab-grown blue the Gemological Institute of America’s ever studied, and it received a color grade of fancy deep.

Michelle Graff

The International Institute of Diamond Grading & Research now has a greater geographic reach, and also will accept non-Forevermark stones.

Amanda Gizzi’s Style File is a new weekly feature that will highlight trends in jewelry. The first installment pays homage to the late, great Cindy Edelstein and her passion for beautiful pieces.

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This week, jewelers in Indiana took a public stance on a recently passed religious freedom law while the late Lauren Bacall’s jewelry and other personal items were auctioned at Bonhams.

The choker is a funny fashion bit.

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Sotheby’s announced it would be selling the world’s largest D flawless emerald-cut diamond later this month while lawyers in California filed to bring a class action lawsuit against Zale.

Now here’s a trendy trend that seems to have long legs.

Michelle Graff

Perusing the cases and displays at jewelry stores, customers generally expect to see staple metals: 18-karat gold, silver, platinum, perhaps titanium or palladium.

A four-strand natural colored pearl necklace sold for a record price at Christie’s this week, while bead and jewelry brand Pandora announced the launch of a North American marketing campaign.

Big diamonds dominated the headlines this week, with Sotheby’s selling a 100-carat, internally flawless D color diamond for $22 million and two mining companies reporting big rough finds.

Michelle Graff

Today’s shoppers, while appreciative of the pearls that have been used in jewelry created generations before them, are looking to designers to give them an updated, stylish look to go with contemporary fashions.

Brecken Branstrator

Fringe was one of the biggest fashion hits on the spring 2015 runways and now it has hit the jewelry world in a big way too.

Michelle Graff

It was a busy week at home and abroad in the jewelry industry.

The most popular of the beryl family and a stone that’s been beloved for ages, the emerald continues to be in demand as supply keeps up and pricing heads toward a more stable structure.

Brecken Branstrator

While Brazilian Paraiba tourmaline remains in high demand, skyrocketing prices and dwindling supply have led to an uptick in interest in the cuprian tourmaline coming out of Africa.

Brecken Branstrator

A court in Denmark has fined Pandora 2 million Danish krone (about $333,000) for waiting too long to warn investors that it anticipated a drop in revenue.  

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The Danish brand announced Tuesday that it has dropped 116 more mostly-U.S.-based retailers from its distribution network in the Americas.

Michelle Graff

After serving as president of the association for the past 14 years, Dione Kenyon is set to retire sometime in 2016, dependent on when the organization finds and transitions a replacement.

Michelle Graff