Good old Gold Diamond Video Request.

[treasurehunter]

Hey >I love your videos and i was hoping for a little video you could maybe make
Two round brilliants of ideal proportions(AGS) one being excellent symmetry and the other Very good .

 

[smilligan]

You should e-mail GOG directly for this. And generally they don't make videos for individuals unless they have a stone on reserve. Just FYI. Never hurts to ask, though. Charles did mine.

 

[Maisie]

Have you searched through the Goodoldgold videos on YouTube? They may have already done a video comparing this.

 

[Rhino]

Hey >I love your videos and i was hoping for a little video you could maybe make
Two round brilliants of ideal proportions(AGS) one being excellent symmetry and the other Very good .

Hi Treasurehunter,

Thanks for the kind words. I have in fact shot quite a few videos that have included "Excellent" vs "Very Good" symmetry and I am quite ok for shooting videos upon request when I feel the subject is worthy and that people can learn from it but let me tell you ... lab graded "meet point" symmetry in both the "Excellent" and "Very Good" range can have extremely varying optics based not on traditionally graded symmetry but something we personally grade on the rounds that come to our lab called "Optical Symmetry" as well as "Light Performance".

For example we have seen many round brilliant cuts with both Excellent Symmetry as well as Very Good Symmetry that have the following optical results below, all of which happen to be Ex or Ideal.

What you want to see is diamonds with differences in Optical Symmetry and also ones that vary in their performance. Ie. You can have GIA Ex's with VG symmetry outperform GIA Ex's with Ex symmetry.

If you have questions I'm here to help but I have certain limitations via the forum as I can't link you to videos personally.

Kind regards,
Rhino