Would Like Opinions on These Ideal Scope Images

[nauticalx]

3.3 CT Round GIA Stone. Please give me your thoughts good bad or ugly. Thanks!

Carat weight: 3.3
Color: J
Clarity: SI2
Cut: Excellent
Symmetry: Excellent
Polish: Excellent
Girdle: Thin to Medium
Culet: None
Fluorescence: Medium
Measurements: 9.65 - 9.63 x 5.91

 

[c-k]

The images are not bad, but I doubt it is eye clean.

 

[nauticalx]

is this worth buying? at what price?

is that a large inclusion on the table?

 

[diamondseeker2006]

Yeah, black inclusion right in the center. With stones that size, I'd be looking at VS2 and up. You might get lucky and find an eyeclean SI1.

 

[ame]

Man, the numbers and scope look so nice, but the clarity are what make me say NO. It's worth it to go down a hair on size to go up on the clarity.

 

[CSR]

If you are looking for perfect cut the hearts image is not the best...Not very symmetrical and clefs in the hearts.

Also big crystal..Quite visible..

 

[nauticalx]

I agree, the hearts image is not good.

Question I'm wondering is - why would GIA rate the cut and symmetry as excellent then?

 

[ame]

I agree, the hearts image is not good.

Question I'm wondering is - why would GIA rate the cut and symmetry as excellent then?

Because GIA has a HUGE net for what they consider Excellent. AGS is much stricter.

 

[WinkHPD]

I agree, the hearts image is not good.

Question I'm wondering is - why would GIA rate the cut and symmetry as excellent then?

Hearts and Arrows are NOT part of the cut and symmetry grading of either AGS or GIA. You can have both a GIA excellent cut and an AGS ideal cut without having Hearts and Arrows patterning, and you can have perfect Hearts and Arrows patterning outside of the Excellent and Ideal parameters.

You can actually have incredibly good symmetry physically and lousy optical symmetry too. It is not a simple thing to have both.

Wink

 

[Andelain]

That's a beautiful stone, except for the tadpole swimming across the table.

 

[yssie]

That's a beautiful stone, except for the tadpole swimming across the table.

 

[CSR]

I agree, the hearts image is not good.

Question I'm wondering is - why would GIA rate the cut and symmetry as excellent then?

Both GIA and AGS have certain parameters for their best cut rating - AGS Ideal is stricter but then within that you have the upper end of Ideal (or Super Ideal - not actually a term) and the lower end...

Having said that, H&A is not part of their grading system, it's probably still a great performer but the more I look at that inclusion the scarier it looks to me...That would be the only thing i'd look at every time I saw the stone!!

 

[nauticalx]

Thanks for the responses. Broker says diamond is "eye clean." Does that "tadpole" in the table look like it would be visible to the naked eye?

 

[Andelain]

Thanks for the responses. Broker says diamond is "eye clean." Does that "tadpole" in the table look like it would be visible to the naked eye?

It may well be too small to see witout a loupe. Does the stone come with a return policy?

 

[ame]

Thanks for the responses. Broker says diamond is "eye clean." Does that "tadpole" in the table look like it would be visible to the naked eye?

What's their definition of eye clean. That doens't look like it would meet MY definition of it.