Diamond Cut

The Diamond Cut determines the fire and brilliance of a diamond. The diamond cutter must place each of the stone' facets and angles in exact geometric relation to one another to maximize this fire and brillance.

On a classic round, brillant-cut diamond, 57 or 58 facets must be precisely aligned. The cut had to be in proper proportions. If these relationships are not optimal, the fire and brillance of the diamond are affected, and undesirable visual effects may occur. It is therefore, the nature and extent of these effects that combine to give the diamond its final grade. The diamond's measurement and proportions ar always outlined on its accompanying grading certificate.

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The Perfect Symbol

The diamond is the birthstone for people born in the month of April, and is also used as the symbol of a sixty-year anniversary, such as a Diamond Jubilee.Today diamond symbolizes wealth, durability, status, and peerless quality. Across time and cultures, diamond has also been associated with invulnerability, lightning, magic, healing, protection, and poisoning. Because of the eternal quality, it is often seen adorning engagement rings and sometimes wedding rings as well.

Today it is customary to give a diamond ring as a present in an engagement.
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What is GIA Grading?

A diamond is a significant purchase. Before buying your diamond, you should ask to see a copy of its certificate, if it has one. The certificate is a verification that the diamond has all the qualities of cut,color, clarity, shape and weight you expect.
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Interesting Facts About Diamond

Want to know some interesting facts about diamonds?
Did you know how big was the largest diamond found?
Did you know where it was found?
Did you know how they were found?
Did you knw how much earth is mined to find a carat of diamond?
Did you know diamond comes in different colors?
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Facts About Diamonds

What Are Diamonds

Diamonds are pure or nearly pure carbon with
extraordinary qualities.

It has the hardest transparent substance known to
man. It is an extremely hard gemstone used mainly
for jewelry and tools. However, due to its unique
internal structure and powers of light reflection,
when cut to proper proportions, it gathers light
within itself and send it back in a shower of fire and
brilliance.

It is the only gem mineral composed of a single
element making it the purest of earth's gemstones.

Therefore it is fitting that the purest and most
brilliant of all the world's stones make the diamond
engagement ring the perfect symbol of engagement.

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Diamond - Real or Fake?

Ways to tell if your diamond is real or fake.

1) Never look at a loose diamond on a white jewelers' tray. Always look at it on a piece of newspaper or printed material. If the diamond is real, you won't be able to read the newsprint through the facets; if the diamond is fake, it's just like looking through, well, glass.

2) One of the best test is thermal conductivity. Diamonds are extremely good conductors of heat and most jewelers have a small instrument that can measure this. No other material will match a diamond in this test.

3) The fog test. This test I like a lot. Put the rock in front of your mouth and fog it like you would try to fog a mirror. If it stays fogged for two to four seconds, it’s a fake. A real diamond disperses the heat instantaneously so by the time you look at it, it has already cleared up. (Sometimes oil and dirt on the stone can effect its reliability and the test is not accurate at all on doublets where the top of the stone is diamond and the bottom is cubic zirconia epoxied together.)

4) Under the loop test. If you own some sort of magnifying lens, there are some things you can look for on the stone that might give away its identity:

A. Look at the rock from the top and see how well the facets (cuts on top of the diamond) are joined. They should be sharp not rolled.

B. Look at the girdle and see if it is faceted or frosty (a clear sign it’s a diamond) or waxy and slick (an indication it’s a fake).

C. While you’re looking at your stone under magnification, look into your stone to see if you detect any flaws (carbon, pinpoints, small cracks). These are typically clear indications it’s the real thing since it’s very hard to put inclusions in a fake.

D. After examining the stone, focus in on the stamps inside the setting. A stamp of "10K, 14K, 18K, 585, 750, 900, 950, PT, Plat" indicates the setting is real gold or platinum which gives a better chance that the stone in it is real as well. While you’re looking at the interior of the ring, also look for any "C.Z." stamps that would indicate the center stone is not a diamond.

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