FLuorescence and Hollywood....

[shoemortgage1979]

I have already read all the opinions of fluorescence in diamonds...BUT, how come in the tv shows "Joey" and "CSI:Miami" both depict a diamond as definitely a fake because it glows purple under uv lights. Why do they think this???? My old engagement ring''s center diamond glowed bright blue, was beautiful, but was checked for authenticity. It was a real and genuine diamond....Any thoughts or opinions on this.....IT BUGS THE POOPIE OUT OF ME!!!

 

[mrssalvo]

obviously the writers never found pricescope

 

[door knob solitaire]

I don''t do TV so I don''t know what particular show you are talking about...

But I think that it would actually be funny in life or in make believe TV land that the guy saves a ton of dough and buys a fake stone...However the stone must never be seen in club lights... because it turns purple! So they can never go into a night club as long as she wears that stone....Everytime she is out with friends he calls ahead and learns what type of light they use...100 watt, 40 watt, candlelight....He always has to know where she is going and then rushes over to twart her entry into a club. With even more expensive gifts and roses and restaurant reservations....to distract her direction. He is at a ball game with buddies, this is the BEST game in the world...they can''t believe how lucky they are to be on 50 yard line...He gets a call from his gf and she is headed out to the Flamingo...he asks What type of lights do they have? What do you mean you don''t know? He has to leave the game and meet her at the door with a bottle of Champagne and tell her he MUST spend some quality time with her..."what now? I thought you were at the foot ball game of the year?"

Eventually he tires of the charades and goes out buys her a even bigger real stone...sounds like a classic Lucy theme. Sure he is is debt for 15 years...but he can finally go to sleep not worrying what light she is under.

I think it is brilliant comedy writing...moral to this story...let us be sure not to gain any diamond advice from sitcoms!

Pricescope for diamond advice...

Gee I had fun with that one!

DKS

 

[mrssalvo]

DKS...what a story...you should be a writer for hollywood..

 

[Demelza]

Well, I know that synthetic diamonds tend to flouresce yellow rather than blue. This can occur in nature, but is much more common in synthetic goods. Perhaps the same is true of purple flourescence.

 

[DiamondExpert]

Vive la fluorescence!

All natural, all the time! One of Bronstein's collections of natural fancy colored diamonds.

 

[Slykat12]

hahaha Hollywood writers often know nothing about real life situations regardless if they have "expert" staff to advise. I could never watch ER or any medical show for that matter as they are so wrong regarding medical practices ect ect. Well at least the ER I worked in for 12 years did not run that way.