The Program Marketing Gesellschaft provided talented young people the chance to show their interpretations of modern jewelry creations to the international trade fair public under the title "Signs of the Times". Extraordinary things were presented. For example, the linking of traditional crochet work with innovative production techniques and the integration of original Meissen porcelain in jewelry pieces of a special kind (source: PROGEM Marketinggesellschaft für die Edelstein- und Schmuckregion Idar-Oberstein mbH).