Possibly a dumb questions, but....

[Sparklelu]

can you really "see " hearts and arrows? I have been looking at diamonds for months now online and not so much in the stores and I have question that is probably going to have many of you shaking your heads, but .. When you look at a Hearts and Arrows stone does do the hearts and arrows really show as such a contrast, or is that a by product of the way it is photographed??

 

[Paul-Antwerp]

You can only "see" arrows, when observing a diamond from a certain direction and with the correct light-environment.

In real life, it is not the seeing of the arrows that is important, it is the increased likelihood of observing more and better fire and scintillation that counts.

Live long,

 

[Sparklelu]

Thank you!!

 

[antelope1]

IMO, you can definitely see the arrows in office lighting. I was at an appraisers for several hours with a couple H&A diamonds, and the arrows were visible from pretty much any angle under his flourescent lighting. These were square H&As, not rounds, btw.