Can a layman distinguish an excellent cut from a very good/good?

[strmrdr]

Date: 7/1/2009 7:48:24 AM
Author: Garry H (Cut Nut)
there is an article in the journal section Sharon

http://journal.pricescope.com/Articles/69/1/Buying-Diamonds-Consumers%E2%80%99-Problems-and-a-Solution-.aspx

 

[Richard Sherwood]

Date: 7/1/2009 7:05:48 AM
Author: Garry H (Cut Nut)
ahem, clears throat, fidgets nervously........Ladies and Rich, at the risk of seriously damaging my retail brand, I buy and sell diamonds and could not give a tinkers cuss about what this or that lab thinks about the stone.


If I believe it is a color lower of clarity grade lower, and I like the stone, and I can negotiate with the cutter manufacturer (who usually is also usually better at grading than the salaried staff at the lab, and knows the stone was sent to 2 or 3 labs anyway before I was shown the softest paper) then the stone is mine and sold at what it is.


I am in the diamond loving business. If it is a beautiful diamond, with GIA good symmetry, a durable girdle, no opens on the crown side, Very strong blue, but not milky and not yellowish in any other light, then the baby is mine for one of my lovely customers.

In other words, you buy a diamond based on its visual presentation, because you are confident in your abilities to recognize beauty.

Good for you, Garry.

When I am in the market for a diamond for my personal use, I contact one of several dealers I know who have an eye for beauty. Then I tell him or her, "find me one of those beauties that falls outside the numbers, and is a super deal because of it." They know immediately what I am talking about, and are almost gleeful in their search for it, no longer constrained by "the numbers".