color of diamond in sunlight

[effie]

the Pear i''ll be using is inherited, so i have no specs on it, nor have i taken it for an appraisal..yet.

but, what does this mean to any of you: under every light except sunlight, it faces up fairly white (i guess...i have nothing to compare it to...but certainly isnt yellow) but then in the sunlight i can definitely see some color,in the tip and near the bottom rounded part. in some lights, the diamond sports a wicked bow-tie, and that is when i notice the color most..in the areas outside the bow-tie. i thought sunlight was supposed to be the prettiest lighting? bear in mind it''s set in a big ol yellow gold setting. could this be part of the reason it suddenly turns yellow, or is it just that the diamond might be a lower color grade than i had originally thought (though...not being a gemologist myself, my thoughts don''t count

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any thoughts would be helpful. just curious.

 

[Shay37]

If that is where the setting touches your diamond, it is quite possible that the color you are seeing is a reflection of the yg setting. That would be my guess.

Shay

 

[Garry H (Cut Nut)]

I have never seen a polished diamond that looks good in direct sunlight.
Some rough looks good that way, but not polished

 

[valeria101]

Date: 9/15/2005 10:28:39 PM
Author:effie

...i have nothing to compare it to...but certainly isnt yellow

CZ is colorless (ok, most of the new jewelry with CZ is), for ref. But that would not help much... I would think that if you do see a sensible difference from ''colorless'' it could I-J or lower. Given the yellow setting, it would be hard to tell anything unless the stone is large.

A substantial mounting or something tinted in the background when you were looking at this woudl be enough to give the wrong impression. A jeweler''s rough estimate - not even appraisal, just opinion ver the counter with the stone in hand - would help allot more than such reading between the lines.

Just my 0.2

 

[PhillipSchmidt]

It depends on how sunny a day you are looking at it in. Sunlight really brings out the colour but intense sunlight is different. In intense sunlight cut is the most important thing as that (to me) makes certain cuts really go crazy.

 

[oldminer]

The diamond might be a little yellow fluorescent and more affected by sunlight than others. Sunlight is far from ''white" and does not make diamonds look as white as they look under more controlled store lighting. Pears, marquise and ovals tend to concentrate color in their end zones so you may be seeing this effect, too. Color is less important to me than livliness and brightness.