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This past week I spent a day visiting Surat, India. If you want to see diamonds of all sizes being traded, this is one of the best places in the world to see it taking place. 7 site-holders have built large buildings there and several diamond trading areas are active like bee's nests.
Surat is a huge and rapidly growing center of diamond cutting in India. ImaGem will begin next week to fully process diamonds there from dealers and various site holders. Light performance reports based on actual measurement of brilliancy, sparkle and intensity will be issued. Rather than measure the length of certain facets, compute angles, feed in all sorts of potentially inaccurate data in order to calculate light behavior, ImaGem units simply measure the actual diamond in the machine, individually and accurately.
All gauging is accurate when compared to the existing Sarin / Ogi units commonly employed, but even with this added accuracy of gauging the actual results are given, not computed via the measurements. Making programs to measure diamonds and calculate light behavior is a commendable effort and will give cutters lots of ways to manufacture beautiful diamonds. However, the end product, the single diamond, should be evaluated based on ACTUAL results of individual cutting efforts, not on a canned formula based on somewhat inaccurate gauging.
The Surat dealers seemingly have welcomed this new technology into their environment...............Time will tell if the competing technologies will be somewhat compatible or if one will be seen as clearly superior technology when it comes to producing lab reports.
Every diamond that goes through the ImaGem process is memorized, without making any markings on it, for future re-identification. This will add a high level of assurance to buyers in distant locations that the documents with the diamond belong to that specific diamond. This is a unique benefit to users of this system. More news will follow as the process of cut grading unfolds in many different arenas.
In Philadelphia, I believe we are now ready to replace our AGA-CERT for round diamonds with an ImaGem based report. Training has been going on during my India trip that has resulted in the opening of DGLA, a lab I am a partner in, in the city of Mumbai. We have agreed to purchase a large space, a bit over 6000sq ft in an active diamond and manufacturing export zone and we will formally open as soon as our various approvals are received.
Back on the big plane tonight to home and my own bed. It will be good to see the family and catch up on local events.......
Surat is a huge and rapidly growing center of diamond cutting in India. ImaGem will begin next week to fully process diamonds there from dealers and various site holders. Light performance reports based on actual measurement of brilliancy, sparkle and intensity will be issued. Rather than measure the length of certain facets, compute angles, feed in all sorts of potentially inaccurate data in order to calculate light behavior, ImaGem units simply measure the actual diamond in the machine, individually and accurately.
All gauging is accurate when compared to the existing Sarin / Ogi units commonly employed, but even with this added accuracy of gauging the actual results are given, not computed via the measurements. Making programs to measure diamonds and calculate light behavior is a commendable effort and will give cutters lots of ways to manufacture beautiful diamonds. However, the end product, the single diamond, should be evaluated based on ACTUAL results of individual cutting efforts, not on a canned formula based on somewhat inaccurate gauging.
The Surat dealers seemingly have welcomed this new technology into their environment...............Time will tell if the competing technologies will be somewhat compatible or if one will be seen as clearly superior technology when it comes to producing lab reports.
Every diamond that goes through the ImaGem process is memorized, without making any markings on it, for future re-identification. This will add a high level of assurance to buyers in distant locations that the documents with the diamond belong to that specific diamond. This is a unique benefit to users of this system. More news will follow as the process of cut grading unfolds in many different arenas.
In Philadelphia, I believe we are now ready to replace our AGA-CERT for round diamonds with an ImaGem based report. Training has been going on during my India trip that has resulted in the opening of DGLA, a lab I am a partner in, in the city of Mumbai. We have agreed to purchase a large space, a bit over 6000sq ft in an active diamond and manufacturing export zone and we will formally open as soon as our various approvals are received.
Back on the big plane tonight to home and my own bed. It will be good to see the family and catch up on local events.......
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