Is this diamond worth further consideration?

[House Cat]

I''m wondering if this diamond is worth the effort of being shipped to the vendor. It rates a 0.6 on the HCA, but according to the cheat sheets I''ve seen, the crown angle is off. Will this have a large impact on performance or appearance?

Cut grade: GIA Excellent
7.22x7.24x4.37
Depth % 60.4
Table % 56.0
Crown angle 33.0
Pavillion angle 41.0
Culet None
No girdle info.

Thanks.

 

[stone-cold11]

Looks good. Nothing wrong or off with the crown angles.

 

[yssie]

ditto -nice numbers, nothing wrong with crown

 

[Lorelei]

Date: 3/22/2010 10:23:06 PM
Author:House Cat
I''m wondering if this diamond is worth the effort of being shipped to the vendor. It rates a 0.6 on the HCA, but according to the cheat sheets I''ve seen, the crown angle is off. Will this have a large impact on performance or appearance?

Cut grade: GIA Excellent
7.22x7.24x4.37
Depth % 60.4
Table % 56.0
Crown angle 33.0
Pavillion angle 41.0
Culet None
No girdle info.

Thanks.

Hi Housecat

The crown is fine, its a touch shallow compared to some crowns we see here but in the non PS world it isn''t shallow at all! This could be a perfectly suitable diamond, this is one where it mentions on the cheat sheet that proportions outside of these ranges can also produce a great stone and this is potentially one of them.

 

[Stephan]

Some of my greatest diamond experiences happened with what some people would call slightly shallow crowns.
Shallow is relative, but GIA doesn''t think 33° is shallow.
You can find some GIA EX diamonds with MUCH shallower crowns.

I often saw the beauty of 40.8-41.0 pavilions with 32.0-33.5 crowns.
In another topic, I''ve asked David Atlas what he could say against a 33° crown.
His only answer was that a diamond with a 33° crown will be less durable than a diamond with a 34° crown.
I''m not an appraiser, but I think that a 33° crown is durable enough from my wearing experience.

Don''t be fooled by people who say that a higher crown will have more fire.
To really have more fire, the crown should be 39°-40°.

And my personal experience with standard round diamonds is that a too high crown makes the table look dark.