The Gemological Institute of America (GIA), which had unveiled its new gem testing device,   the iD100™ at the JCK Las Vegas show in early June has said it will hold demonstrations of the instrument, and take pre-orders for it, at the Hong Kong Jewellery & Gem Fair to be held from June 22 to June 25, 2017 at the Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre (HKCEC).   The institute has also announced that the instrument will be available at a special introductory price throughout the month of June 2017.

At the Hong Kong show, GIA will also present its GIA M2M™, which it describes as “a service and digital platform that gives consumers a new way to learn their diamonds’ history”.

The GIA will be holding a seminar on Friday, June 23, in room S227 at the HKCEC from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. when it will present the M2M service and demonstrate the GIA iD100™.

“The gem testing device will be on display and available for demonstrations in the GIA booth, 3M100,” the institute announced. “GIA will take pre-orders at the show for the new instrument at a discounted price of US$ 3,995 with a US$ 500 deposit.”

The GIA iD100™ testing device is a desktop instrument which is easy to operate. It can “reliably identify mounted and loose natural colourless diamonds, separating them from all simulants and from diamonds that may be synthetic or treated”. The GIA elaborated saying that the instrument “combines advanced spectroscopic technology; GIA’s extensive research into the qualities of natural, treated and synthetic diamonds; and the Institute’s decades of diamond analysis experience to refer all synthetic diamonds – HPHT and CVD – and all stimulants”. The institute said that further research is being conducted so as to build upon the instrument’s capabilities so that it is also able to identify pink diamonds and other gem material.

“After very strong pre-sales of the GIA iD100™ gem testing device and enthusiastic interest in the M2M diamond story programme at the JCK show, we are pleased to bring these two exciting innovations to the June Hong Kong Jewellery & Gem Fair, one of Asia’s leading industry events,” said Tom Moses, GIA Executive Vice President and Chief Laboratory and Research Officer. “Giving jewellers and others in the trade absolute and immediate certainty that their stones are natural, and developing a new platform to tell all the chapters of a diamond’s history both advance GIA’s non-profit mission to ensure the public trust in gems and jewellery.”