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I hope we win! Haha What do you think we’ll get?
I can blow you a kiss?
I hope we win! Haha What do you think we’ll get?
I can blow you a kiss?
This is a very common misconception. Clarity grading is based on the presence of imperfection as opposed to its visibility. Which is why we can see eye clean I1 diamonds as well as VS2 that contain imperfections visible to the naked eye.If the inclusions are visible to the naked eye at a normal viewing distance it's probably an I1
No Dave, But I think David Rockdiamond is probably on the moneyDo you have AGS, IGI and EGL reports on this diamond, too?
Davids picks:What the heck, sure I'll play!!
AGS would give it SI2- which happens frequently with stones given I1 by GIA, and subsequently submitted to AGS ( saw a 5.00ct like this the other day)
EGL? That's a hard one- it really depends on which EGL I'll say SI1
IGI...generally closer to GIA lately, so SI2
HRD, SI1
But every lab makes mistakes...I'm sure many others are like me- on the edge of our seats!
PS- If I'm the buyer- I 10000% call the stone I1 till I see a GIA report. And if the GIA report says SI2 ( or some other wacky thing) I still consider the stone as an I1 in terms of pricing.
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@Garry H (Cut Nut)Davids picks:
AGS would give it SI2- which happens frequently with stones given I1 by GIA, and subsequently submitted to AGS ( saw a 5.00ct like this the other day)
EGL? That's a hard one- it really depends on which EGL I'll say SI1
IGI...generally closer to GIA lately, so SI2
HRD, SI1
There are no SI3 IGI on Rapaport or on Get Diamonds Sergey???@Garry H (Cut Nut)
How is about SI3 from IGI? IGI created SI3 specially for SI2/I1 diamonds.
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. You won the grand prize!. Garry will ship you the diamond within 48 hrs.
when I first started getting into diamonds HRD was consider to be close to Gia with the main difference on splits with HRD being harsher in a few ranges softer in others.RapNet shows that HRD is most heavily discounted taking up half of the deeply discounted stones yet HRD graded diamonds are drastically outnumbered by GIA. But what really surprises me is HRD is now very soft on colour – I found examples of 2 grades softer than GIA.
Diamonds are often grade by two or more labs resulting in lots of travelling, insurance and fees. Expert staff are employed to make these decisions and arrange the movement of diamonds. Challenging a lab when the owner thinks the grade is better adds further to the cost. The return on investment if a diamond takes months to get graded also has a huge cost.
I think our perspectives on this are again shaped by the markets we frequent most often.It is clearly worthwhile to many dealers to add HRD into the mix for SI2's under 1.5ct David!
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The first few are GIA I1's
The next are GIA SI2's that I consider soft.
Here are some nicer SI2's showing that it really is a very big range within a grade!
And now my fav type of lower clarity diamond - twinning - when you are grading in a dark room and have little or no front light - that is the only expleanation I have.
But they do need eyeballing because some can be hazy.