PumpkinOrange
Rough_Rock
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- Sep 21, 2017
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it is actually as transparent as my D-IF type IIa golconda quality diamond.
GIA's FCD grading of hues sometimes puzzles me.
Often a blue will get an Fancy Intense grade when it seems like a Fancy Blue grade would have been generous.
Very very often GIA oranges, even the uber-expensive pure orange with no modifiers, will have lots of brown in them.
Sometimes I suspect GIA just gets generous to compensate for how stingy nature is on certain hues.
You realise you can't post that sentence without posting pics? lol
You are right I guess the bow tie or light leakage such as in my case appears brownish or black and sometimes like a color hole. Do you think bow tie effect is such a negative in colored diamonds?
I've been eyeing two fancy deep orangy prink from Leibish & Co. I'm not sure which one should I focus my savings. One is a cheery while the other is maroon. To me the maroon looks more red than the cheery but I don't like brown in diamonds and maroon is brownish red right?In white or FC diamonds bowtie is the result of shapes (oval, pear, marquise) that forces the light to travel a longer path in one axis than the other.
To minimize or elimate it requires cutting a diamond down to very very narrow range of proportions ... which 'wastes' precious rough.
Final carat weight is VERY important when planning and polishing diamonds.
FCD rough is usually more expensive that white so accepting bowtie in FCDs usual.
Also it's nice when you find an FCD with little or no bowtie, but the price will likely be higher because of it.
Some people see bowtie as a negative, others just accept it since it usually goes along with the territory of curved non-symmetrical shapes.
I can't answer since color is purely personal preference.
As long as you are only considering diamonds graded by GIA and sold by a reputable seller with a good return policy just buy what you find to be more desirable to you.
How desirable the market considers it to be will already be factored into the price.
I love your user name AND your pumpkin ring!
Thanks! It's a Leibish & Co. orange diamond that is why.@PumpkinOrange That is fabulous!