Help! What''s an indented inclusion?

[mchou]

Hi! I''m new to this forum. I''m choosing between two diamonds with a VVS2 clarity rating. One has a pinpoint and needlepoint and the other has a pinpoint and an indented inclusion. Can somebody please let me know what an indented inclusion is and whether or not this affects the stone''s brilliance? All else being equal (size, color, symmetry, polish), is the stone with the indented inclusion better, worse or about the same in qualty as the stone without the indented inclusion?

Thanks,
Michael

 

[Rank Amateur]

At VVS2 I can't imagine that you have anything to worry about. Which lab did the report?

One of the pros will give the official version but I think it just means that the inclusion ****s the *******. I'm not sure of the difference between an indented inclusion and an indented natural.

You can go to gia.org and they have a glossary to look up diamond terminology (but it doesn't have indented inclusion - sorry!).

R/A

*****s added to keep a guess from being a bad piece of information!

 

[Richard Sherwood]

Usually an indented inclusion is a surface inclusion (natural) on the girdle of the diamond which indents (intrudes) slightly into the stone.

In the case of a VVS stone, we're talking about a microscopic intrusion. The grading takes the nature and size of the inclusion into account, so a VVS2 with an indented inclusion is pound-for-pound going to be as good as a VVS2 with other types of inclusions.