A Certificate Doesn’t Tell the Whole Story
| By Jonathan ~ January 29th, 2009 ~ Wedding Jewelry | Comments Off |
My uncle Zed showed me a diamond today that I believe illustrates an important point: You can’t judge a diamond from its certificate alone and you really need to see it your own eyes.
This diamond looked perfectly fine by its certificate, but when we saw the stone, it was riddled with problems. Internally, the diamond had all sorts of impurities and generally just looked cloudy. You can see that it looks like it’s got “cracks” on the inside.
And more obviously, look at that huge black inclusion below! Of course, the certificate indicates the inclusion, but the severity of it isn’t fully captured. Sometimes an inclusion can be less bothersome, lighter in color, and to the side of the diamond’s table (the top flat part). Other times, like here, the mark is right in the center and just screams at you. For more on diamond clarity, go here.
This is a diamond we roundly rejected and that’s the difference between an expert jeweler that inspects ever stone and a retailer that sells stones he/she has never seen.
