Excellent Cut Diamond

Conversely a well cut diamond can have a slightly lower color g h or clarity si1 si2 and still look quite beautiful due to its superior ability to create sparkle and brilliance.

Excellent cut diamond.

The golden rule is to choose excellent ideal cut diamonds to achieve superb sparkle. And a diamond with an excellent cut has to have excellent or at least very good symmetry as well. The cut quality of a super ideal cut diamond goes above and beyond that of the gia s excellent and ags s ideal grades. It also means that the diamond will sell at a premium.

For superior brilliance choose a diamond with a cut grade of very good or excellent for round diamonds and good or better in fancy shape diamonds. That said i would advise you to go for a very good symmetry grade. When viewed from the top the light passing through such stones creates a beautiful and clear pattern of bright and dark spots. A seemingly minute change in the pavilion or crown angle can make a big difference to the sparkle fire and scintillation of a diamond.

When choosing a diamond in this range make sure its symmetry and polish are very good or excellent so that the impact of the above average cut is not obscured. Very good diamond cut characteristics. Precision of the facets mirrors windows and steps polish. The shine and glow of the diamond surface.

A perfect cut diamond is proportioned in such a way that nearly all the light that enters the diamond gets returned to the viewer s eye. The ratios and sizes of the diamond s depth width and table symmetry.