Venus Jewel launches online diamond auction

Mumbai, India—Diamond Trading Co. sightholder Venus Jewel has announced it is now offering a service that allows its customers to bid for diamonds online.According to a release from the Mumbai, India-based manufacturer, the new Venus Exclusive Diamonds (VED) is the first time an auction service has been offered by a diamond manufacturer.VED will upload new diamonds every Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. IST (about 10:00 a.m. EST), displaying a minimum price for each of the diamonds.The auction will be open for seven days.

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Hallmarked diamond by BIS- Is it a great idea??

Bureau of Indian Standards are going to grade diamonds soon. It is great that government is taking good steps to standardise our diamond grading system, but little they know that it requires tremendous patience, dedication and efforts to even think of going in these lines. The infrastructure to grade diamonds should be handled by professionals and the work taken on hand should be relieved asap .It cannot give a laid back attitude like they show in other fields. All the best folkes!

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Next time when you buy sparkling gems from a jewellery shop to cherish that special occasion, make it a point to ask for the gems inscribed with the BIS hallmark, like the one in gold and silver ornaments. Because, the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) has for the first time established the Indian standards on the quality parameters and grading of the polished diamonds in the country. read more