This is how to determine the quality and price of Diamonds
Diamonds are one of the most valuable tertiary items a person can have. If you save it as an investment in the future, its value will continue to rise. Understandably, Diamonds are rare and expensive because they are not easy to mine. No wonder prospective investors need to recognize diamonds further to get the best quality as an investment.
Of the raw diamonds obtained from mining, only 40 percent were declared quality without many fingerprints and judged to be usable. While 60 percent is wasted or made as a diamond sharpener plate. Natural fingerprints are another term for the condition of a diamond that is less than perfect. The common language is defective diamonds. But diamonds are high-value luxury precious metals. The manufacturing process and its origin are from the ground with a depth of hundreds of meters, making diamonds contain natural fingerprints inside and not on the surface.
Of the raw diamonds obtained from mining, only 40 percent were declared quality without many fingerprints and judged to be usable. While 60 percent is wasted or made as a diamond sharpener plate. Natural fingerprints are another term for the condition of a diamond that is less than perfect. The common language is defective diamonds. But diamonds are high-value luxury precious metals. The manufacturing process and its origin are from the ground with a depth of hundreds of meters, making diamonds contain natural fingerprints inside and not on the surface.
Diamond Features:
Crystal structure: Diamonds usually crystallize in the form of crystalline systems and consist of tetrahedron bonded carbon atoms.
Resilience / Violence: Diamonds are the hardest material, 10 on the Moht scale (the value of Perfect violence) between 167 and 231 gigapaskal in various tests.
Color: Diamond has clear, white, blue, yellow, red, green, pink, & black shine. Colored diamonds contain structural defects that cause staining, while pure or almost pure diamonds are clear and colorless. Most diamonds displacing carbon atoms in the crystal tissue will cause a slight yellowish color.
So what factors determine the quality and price of a diamond?
Four factors are called "4C", plus 1C becomes the determinant.
1. Color: the best diamonds are transparent or in the size of international color quality including color D. In the world, the color of diamonds starting from the clear white (transparent) D alphabet is the best, down to Z in bright yellow.
Even if there is a diamond called fancy yellow diamond, this is not a lower quality yellow diamond. Precisely, said Tanya, this type of diamond is very rare because it has original colors found during mining. Besides yellow, there are also rare diamonds pink, blue, or green. This diamond has no price benchmark and can rise as high as possible. This diamond was chosen by Prince Charles while asking for Princess Diana.
2. Clarity: diamonds determine prices. The fewer fingerprints of nature, the higher the value of diamonds. It's a bit difficult to detect it, so a lens with a magnification of 10 times (no more) is needed to see it. Accuracy of investors is needed to see diamond clarity.
There are five clarity classes from the highest to the lowest level on a Diamond:
FL (Flawless)
IF (Internally Flawless)
VVS1 - VVS2 (very, very slightly included)
VS1 - VS2 (very slightly included)
SI1 - SI3 (slightly included)
I1 - I3 (included)
Crystal structure: Diamonds usually crystallize in the form of crystalline systems and consist of tetrahedron bonded carbon atoms.
Resilience / Violence: Diamonds are the hardest material, 10 on the Moht scale (the value of Perfect violence) between 167 and 231 gigapaskal in various tests.
Color: Diamond has clear, white, blue, yellow, red, green, pink, & black shine. Colored diamonds contain structural defects that cause staining, while pure or almost pure diamonds are clear and colorless. Most diamonds displacing carbon atoms in the crystal tissue will cause a slight yellowish color.
So what factors determine the quality and price of a diamond?
Four factors are called "4C", plus 1C becomes the determinant.
1. Color: the best diamonds are transparent or in the size of international color quality including color D. In the world, the color of diamonds starting from the clear white (transparent) D alphabet is the best, down to Z in bright yellow.
Even if there is a diamond called fancy yellow diamond, this is not a lower quality yellow diamond. Precisely, said Tanya, this type of diamond is very rare because it has original colors found during mining. Besides yellow, there are also rare diamonds pink, blue, or green. This diamond has no price benchmark and can rise as high as possible. This diamond was chosen by Prince Charles while asking for Princess Diana.
2. Clarity: diamonds determine prices. The fewer fingerprints of nature, the higher the value of diamonds. It's a bit difficult to detect it, so a lens with a magnification of 10 times (no more) is needed to see it. Accuracy of investors is needed to see diamond clarity.
There are five clarity classes from the highest to the lowest level on a Diamond:
FL (Flawless)
IF (Internally Flawless)
VVS1 - VVS2 (very, very slightly included)
VS1 - VS2 (very slightly included)
SI1 - SI3 (slightly included)
I1 - I3 (included)
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3. Carat: means weight measurement. One carat is 200 milligrams (0.2 grams) or 100 points. Instead, Tanya explains, choose diamonds above 0.7 grams for investment.
4. Cutting: What is meant by pieces include round, marquise, pear shape, and others. Cutting size must be proportional to produce the best quality and to produce luster. Diamonds of the highest quality are those that reflect light, not emit light. Perfect reflection is influenced by the shape of the piece. In addition to 4C, one more C is needed, namely the Gemstone Certificate. The certificate from the Gemological Institute of America (GIA) becomes a trusted certification institution in the international market, in addition to other institutions such as YGL, HRD or AGS. In this certificate there is a register number, and various main information about diamonds such as shape, cutting style, size and 4C factor. Information in this certificate will determine the value of your diamond later. With reliable evidence, diamond investment will be safer and of high value. |
