There are numerous types of cuts that are the most desirable. Among them you can find: heart, marquise,  pear, princess, oval, emerald & trillion. As I stated before the shape is of great influence on the extent a diamond shines, but another important factor that influences the shining of a diamond is its cut: A diamond that was cut with a low professinal standard will be less shiny than a professionally cut diamond.

Don’t be confused: the cut of a diamond is not a about a diamond’s shape. It’s about its width, durability, depth, clarity width and other factors of a diamond. An example to a cutting problem can be a diamond that is too thick, a diamond that is too thin, cracks, broken culets, misalignment & many other.

The diamond cut should be a valuable factor you should consider after you decided which diamond shape you prefer. During the shopping process, make a comparison between some diamonds of the same shape & look for the one that shines better than the others, no matter what lighting is used. This way you will get to enjoy a high quality diamond that will look prestigious to the ones you know.

If you are looking to buy a diamond with bonded option you will pay more than you will pay for buying a non-bonded diamond. Yet, you may find that what you’ll get will worth the money you paid for it.

One reason is that when you buy bonded diamonds you get a buy back policy for the whole life of the diamond. You can own the diamond for a short while or a long while – you can still withdraw of your purchase and take to the bonded jeweler who in turn will be willing to buy it from you for a one hundred percent refund.  In the case  a jeweler doesn’t propose 100% buy back guarantee, for the whole life of the diamond what you ought to do is take a closer look at the diamond to get a sense what’s the matter with it.

The second reason to buy bonded diamond is that they have a policy for breakage. In case a stone separates into fragments the bonded jeweler will substitute it with a new stone – but only if it happened once. The breakage policies in the market are only availiable for stones that are 100% natural. Hence, by getting this kind of offer you can relax that you get a diamond of good quality. Generally speaking bonded diamonds are natural and unprocessed.

The third reason is that bonded diamonds have a growing value with a fixed apprieciation rate that is meant to maintain its value in times of inflation. This way a diamond that costs a specific amount of money nowadays will cost more in the future, in case the economic value of this diamond will keep on rising. Everything that’s said here does not relate to buy backs, but it does mostly relate to trade-ins.

The fourth reason is that by buying a bonded diamond you are reducing the possible risk of a market crash. On a market crash the value of diamonds will be reduced. Yet, the bonded jeweler provides you with a guarantee to restore you the difference between the current cost of a diamond and the your purchase price before the market crash.

You may find it hard to locate a bonded jeweler who is operating near to you, but it isn’t impossible.  But remember – a bonded jeweler is your better choice for a diamond transaction. When you contact a bonded jeweler tell him that you want to purchase bonded diamonds solely. To find your local bonded diamonds jeweler near to you by using search engines, online directories, yellowpages, newspapers etc.

Addressing a diamond as having 4 grains signifies it is a one carat diamond. The word Carat originates from the word carob. A Carob is a plant (a bean in fact) that grows on trees that prosper in the Mediterranean. In old times had a diamond weighed similarly to a carob bean, its weight was one carob i.e. 1 carat.

Nevertheless in the far east, a place where Carob trees didn’t prosper, rice was the mean to measure the weight of a given diamond. Under that system, had a diamond weighed the same quantity as four grains of rice, then four grains signified 1 carat the way we know it now. Most of the diamond purchases are for diamonds whom weight is about a third of a carat.

Knowing what I just told you, avoid buying diamonds that were arranged or mounted. In case there are at least two diamonds joined in the same piece, the label attached to the jewelry will give the CTW i.e. Carat Total Weight of each diamond in the piece. Hence you should ask the jeweler for exact carat weight of the biggest diamond in the piece to fully understand what you are purchasing.

Understanding how to mark the clarity of a diamond doesn’t involve much effort. Fundementally there are two issues you must comprehend: Diamonds that have visual inclusions & blemishes, and diamonds that are “eye clean” and don’t have inclusions or blemishes that a human eye can notice.

Starting of that point the clarity of a diamond can be defined by several subcategories. Many of those who are interested in diamonds incorrectly think that a diamond clarity regards to how clear the diamond is. But that’s not how it is.

In reality clarity regards the internal & external defects of a diamond. The most excellent diamonds are marked with a grade of FL or IF, Flawless or Internally Flawless, saying that the diamond is perfect. A mark of of I-1, I-2 or I-3 signifies that the diamond is imperfect, and a mark of I-3 signifies the worst.

Additional marks are VVS1 and VVS2, which signifies that the diamond is very, very slightly imperfect; VS1 and VS2, which state the diamond is very slightly imperfect. And last but not least: SI-1 & SI-2, which signifies that the diamond is somewhat imperfect.