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You know about the 4Cs.
Cut, clarity, carat, and color.
The easiest one to understand is carat, or size.
The hardest to understand is cut - yet it is the most important.
Of the 4Cs the one that will have the most effect on beauty, sparkle, fire, brilliance is . . . . . .CUT!
95% of all diamonds are cut to save as much weight of the rough diamond as possible.
This results in diamonds that are not shaped perfectly to reflect light and break it up into fiery colors to the greatest degree possible.
Yes it is hard to believe but 95% of diamonds are NOT cut to be beautiful.
They are cut to make maximum money for the industry by retaining as much rough as possible.
(To make a well-cut diamond they must grind away more material, resulting in a lighter and smaller diamond.)
You don't hear a lot about this because the industry makes more money if you are ignorant.
Sad.
But lucky for you that you found Pricescope.
Now you can be one of the educated few who will seek out these well-cut firework shows.
Up till a year ago it was very difficult and complicated for a customer to determine cut quality in princess-cut diamonds.
But then one of the best labs, AGS, began rating princess diamonds by cut.
In the past all diamonds were rated by size, clarity and color but not by cut.
Now if you look for a princess that AGS rated zero (the best) you are going to get the cream of the crop.
Sure you could spend a lot of time learning all the angles and technical things that AGS uses to determine which get the AGS 0 rating, then look for a GIA, or other, princess that also was cut in that way - but why bother?
Also you may be wasting your time because if the cutter cut it to AGS 0 standards it was no accident.
They are going to send it to AGS to get the AGS 0 an AGS report because it gets a higher price. (But it's worth it.)
So you may not even find a GIA princess cut to AGS 0 standards.
Okay you want large.
We all do.
But you wouldn't dream of dropping way down the clarity to a I3 just to get size.
Why? Because you understand clarity.
You wouldn't dream of dropping down in color to a dirty yellow brown stone just to get size.
Why? Because you understand color.
But cut is MORE important to the performance of a diamond than color or clarity (within reason).
I would never insist that people must or pay for D IF stones - we'd all have tiny diamonds.
But I think we ALL should insist on the best cut.
Cut is the MOST important thing that determines a diamond's light show.
You know about the 4Cs.
Cut, clarity, carat, and color.
The easiest one to understand is carat, or size.
The hardest to understand is cut - yet it is the most important.
Of the 4Cs the one that will have the most effect on beauty, sparkle, fire, brilliance is . . . . . .CUT!
95% of all diamonds are cut to save as much weight of the rough diamond as possible.
This results in diamonds that are not shaped perfectly to reflect light and break it up into fiery colors to the greatest degree possible.
Yes it is hard to believe but 95% of diamonds are NOT cut to be beautiful.
They are cut to make maximum money for the industry by retaining as much rough as possible.
(To make a well-cut diamond they must grind away more material, resulting in a lighter and smaller diamond.)
You don't hear a lot about this because the industry makes more money if you are ignorant.
Sad.
But lucky for you that you found Pricescope.
Now you can be one of the educated few who will seek out these well-cut firework shows.
Up till a year ago it was very difficult and complicated for a customer to determine cut quality in princess-cut diamonds.
But then one of the best labs, AGS, began rating princess diamonds by cut.
In the past all diamonds were rated by size, clarity and color but not by cut.
Now if you look for a princess that AGS rated zero (the best) you are going to get the cream of the crop.
Sure you could spend a lot of time learning all the angles and technical things that AGS uses to determine which get the AGS 0 rating, then look for a GIA, or other, princess that also was cut in that way - but why bother?
Also you may be wasting your time because if the cutter cut it to AGS 0 standards it was no accident.
They are going to send it to AGS to get the AGS 0 an AGS report because it gets a higher price. (But it's worth it.)
So you may not even find a GIA princess cut to AGS 0 standards.
Okay you want large.
We all do.
But you wouldn't dream of dropping way down the clarity to a I3 just to get size.
Why? Because you understand clarity.
You wouldn't dream of dropping down in color to a dirty yellow brown stone just to get size.
Why? Because you understand color.
But cut is MORE important to the performance of a diamond than color or clarity (within reason).
I would never insist that people must or pay for D IF stones - we'd all have tiny diamonds.
But I think we ALL should insist on the best cut.
Cut is the MOST important thing that determines a diamond's light show.
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