A pear-shaped, D color, VVS1 diamond weighing 89.23 carats sold for more than $11 million at Christie’s Magnificent Jewels sale held last Wednesday in New York. 

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Citizen Watch Company of America has opened its first global retail concept store in North America, in New York City’s famed Times Square. 

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 Before she was “All About that Bass,” Grammy-nominated singer Meghan Trainor was all about that bling, working behind the counter at her parents’ Nantucket jewelry store.

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As I’m sure you’ve heard, probably multiple times over Pantone named Marsala, a dusky, earthy red color, as its hue of the year for 2015. And while it’s gotten a range of reactions from media, there was a lot of positive feedback coming from the team here, including yours truly.

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The industry remembering designer Scott Kay and an alert from the JVC about diamond grading reports were the top stories on National Jeweler last week.

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The three remaining lawsuits filed against Tennessee retailer Genesis Diamonds over its use of EGL International grading reports have been settled.

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I’ll start off this blog with a short confessional but not the scary, priest-behind-the-screen, say-10-Hail-Marys-type from my youth.

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The 24 Karat Club of New York will hold its 113th annual banquet on Saturday, Jan. 10 at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in Manhattan. 

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The International Gemological Institute recently received recognition from the Responsible Jewelry Council and the International Organization for Standardization.

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Jared the Galleria of Jewelry is getting into the holiday spirit with the return of its 12-day jewelry giveaway on Facebook, playing off the well-known holiday tune with a descending amount of winners each day.  

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The Platinum Guild International (PGI-USA) has a new program for jewelry store employees who exhibit exemplary platinum-selling skills.  

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 A rare 40.23-carat ruby led Gemfields recent auction in Singapore, which set a new record for the mining company with a $43.3 million total.

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Pure Grown Diamonds, the company formerly known as Gemesis, has broken yet another carat barrier in the creation of white, or colorless, diamonds.  

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Investigators believe that thieves followed a van from a trade show in Chicago to a rest stop near Rochester, Minn. before allegedly carrying out a $500,000 heist in a matter of minutes. 

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Fifteen days to go until Christmas. That makes it the perfect time to remind salespeople to ask for the add-on, or to refresh the store’s tactics for making multiple sales.  

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Luxury watch brand Blancpain expanded its presence in the United States when it opened its first West Coast boutique this month, located at the Forum Shops at Caesars in Las Vegas. 

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The Omaha retailer said it still believes in the “goodness of people” even after it came to light that a woman the jeweler rushed to help might have been dishonest.  

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The Omaha retailer said it still believes in the “goodness of people” even after it came to light that a woman the jeweler rushed to help might have been dishonest.   

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Investigators believe that thieves followed a van from a trade show in Chicago to a rest stop near Rochester, Minn. before allegedly carrying out a $500,000 heist in a matter of minutes.  

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MJSA just named Ann Arnold, the chief strategy officer at the Buyers Intelligence Group (BIG), as the chair of its board of directors.  

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An independent jeweler’s $170,000 sale and Q&A with the man working to clean up the grading practices of EGL labs outside the United States were the top stories on National Jeweler last week.

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 Mike Barnes has been named as chairman, president and CEO of Dallas-based specialty retail chain Francesca’s, effective immediately.

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The third season of The Weather Channel’s hit television show Prospectors, a reality show that follows the endeavors of gemstone miners in Colorado, returns this month. 

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White Pine Trading has launched its Retail Partnerships Service, a program designed to help retail jewelers improve sales and increase customer loyalty via their customers’ unwanted jewelry. 

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Next week, key diamond industry leaders, and reportedly even Russian President Vladimir Putin, are slated to attend a conference in India that will address challenges facing the industry today.  

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