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A New Diamond Age

P: 10/7/2003 1:34:18 PM
Pricescope Administrator Total Posts: 8,265 Last Post: 1/5/2008 Member Since: 1/1/2000	David Atlas forwarded me this article A New Diamond Age (it is 1M pdf file). Hope David will shed a bit more light on it. Pricescope
Posted: 10/7/2003 1:34:18 PM

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P: 10/7/2003 1:51:24 PM
Pricescope Administrator Total Posts: 8,265 Last Post: 1/5/2008 Member Since: 1/1/2000	Related pattents I found in uspto.gov: 6,239,867 and 6,020,954 Pricescope
Posted: 10/7/2003 1:51:24 PM

P: 10/7/2003 2:02:46 PM
oldminer Ideal Rock Total Posts: 4,765 Last Post: 7/4/2009 Member Since: 9/4/2000	I am a small part of this great company, Imagem. This is the first public news about the newest of the grading technologies for diamonds. While I can't say a lot more right now, I will keep the Pricescope members informed on this company and what it hopes to accomplish as these things are made public. We do hope to provide totally objective and repeatable grading of diamonds with this new technology. And there is more....Another week or two and we will give more advice about it. David S. Atlas GG(GIA), ASG, Sr. Mbr. NAJA www.datlas.com
Posted: 10/7/2003 2:02:46 PM

P: 10/7/2003 4:03:58 PM
valeria101 Ideal Rock Total Posts: 14,048 Last Post: 4/30/2006 Member Since: 8/29/2003	RIGHT? WRONG? or OUTRAGEOUS? Just dreaming up a diamond market timeline here: 1) cutter does the grading prior to sale 2) concept of ideal diamond cut invented. 3) third party does grading (technology prohibiting alternatives) 4) departures from centralized grading system: customer invited to take a look (H&A viewer, hand-held); independent cutters and graders develop technologies accessible to the trade (8* 'scope'; and this new one now). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Problems: various grading systems offer competing quality concepts and systems, simmilar to stage #1. Possible solution I: (market liberalization model) customers get less certain choices, independent grading systems win pieces of the market but average diamond prices slide down. The unitary concept developed in stage #2 is progressively diluted: demand and prices slide further... Possible solution II: the old, centralized grading system acquires the new technology owing to the unified concept developed in stage #2. The unitary concept of ideal cut survives, so do prices and demand, but not so the new innovators. What makes the difference between the last two scenarios? The ability of the new technology to promote a unique performance measure for diamond cuts. Ok, done with the homework... back to the other markets Ana "The greatest experts are only as good as the sum total of what they have seen." [Souren Melikian]
Posted: 10/7/2003 4:03:58 PM

P: 10/7/2003 7:26:19 PM
Richard Sherwood Ideal Rock Total Posts: 4,585 Last Post: 7/4/2009 Member Since: 9/25/2002	Sounds exciting. I was disappointed to read that they are not planning on selling or leasing the machines though. Are they planning on offering this as a pay-per-play service then? Rich, Independent GG Appraiser Sarasota Gemological Laboratory
Posted: 10/7/2003 7:26:19 PM

P: 10/7/2003 9:34:08 PM
Garry H (Cut Nut) Ideal Rock Total Posts: 11,273 Last Post: 7/4/2009 Member Since: 8/16/2000	we will watch and listen with great interest. On the sticker though you can see the angles and % do not make sense. The diamond comes out at .98ct not +1ct. % to .01% seems like a very big call? Garry Holloway FGAA DipDT HCA and Ideal-scope developer http://www.ideal-scope.com and http://www.HollowayDiamonds.com.au
Posted: 10/7/2003 9:34:08 PM

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