Bonhams recent jewelry sale held in New York totaled $6.3 million, with diamond pieces dominating the top 10 lots.

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The Swiss Gemmological Institute SSEF announced recently that they’ve mastered the extraction of oyster DNA, allowing them to trace pearls to their various origins.

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Citizen Watch Company of America Inc. announced recently that it has introduced its first ladies’ watch that utilizes atomic timekeeping, an innovation previously available only in men’s models. 

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A total of 33 watch brands have come up with one-off timepieces for this year’s Only Watch auction, a charity event that takes place each year in Monaco to benefit muscular dystrophy research.

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Longines is reviving the medical watch it first introduced in the 1960s, a timepiece that measures the wearer’s vital signs in addition to keeping time.

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The introduction of more mid- and entry-price watch lines, an affinity for blue dials and timepieces created in the Art Deco style were among the trends observed at Baselworld 2013. 

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The diamond industry’s lack of liquidity is expected to be one of the main topics of discussion when leaders convene in Dubai in mid-May for the World Diamond Congress.

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The biggest drop was in the export of polished diamonds, which slipped below the $20 billion mark for the first time in six years.

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More than a quarter of jewelers said in a recent survey that they don’t have a point-of-sale system for tracking inventory in their store.

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They are the Maendeleo Diamond Standards, after the word that means development and progress in Swahili.

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The mining company has recovered three more big diamonds from its mine in Angola and two of them are high-color, Type IIa stones.

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The online retailer, which has what is probably the most coveted customization software in the jewelry industry, was acquired for an undisclosed sum.

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Cynthia Prasnal is scheduled to present a history of Van Cleef & Arpels and her work there at the Northwest Jewelry Conference in August.

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At Bailey’s Fine Jewelry in North Carolina, owner Clyde Bailey has begun appointing brand ambassadors to navigate what still may be foreign territory to some fine jewelry salespeople: silver fashion jewelry. 

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The trading platform now has diamonds with reports from GHI Gemological Laboratory and De Beers’ International Institute of Diamond Grading and Research.

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Jorge Lorenzo, who has won the MotoGP World Championship three times, has joined the Tissot family of celebrity ambassadors.

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M. Geller, Schubach Enterprises and D.Nea are among the new members of the International Grown Diamond Association.

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Here are the top five stories published on NationalJeweler.com for the week of April 17 to 23, according to Google Analytics.

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Clothing-turned-jewelry designer Michal Kadar, who’ll make her trade show debut this summer, is opening an atelier for her fledgling jewelry brand.

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Identified someone willing to take over the jewelry business? Good. Here’s what’s next.

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The company announced Thursday that 68 Kmart and 10 Sears will close by mid-September.

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The company now is providing the industry with market data regarding diamond sales gathered from both independent retailers and large chains.

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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s appeal board has ruled that the two major claims in Lazare Kaplan’s patent for laser-inscribing diamonds are invalid.

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This year, a total of six organizations--JA, DEF, DCA, JSA, JVC and JVC Canada--will share JCK’s annual grant, which totals more than $293,000.

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Jewelry packaging and display company Rocket has hired Christopher Stock as head of the company’s design department and general manager for its West Coast operations.

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