At Wixon, we strive to offer our clients the highest quality diamonds and carry the largest selection of loose diamonds in Minnesota. Our collection of diamond jewelry features many different shape options, ranging from traditional to fancy. Below you will find a comprehensive list of the most popular diamond shapes and their characteristics. The round brilliant cut is the most popular shape of diamond. For hundreds of years, diamond cutters have been working with this cut to maximize its brilliance and fire.
While this cut offers great flexibility within the four Cs, you will want to select higher quality grades to bring out the most brilliance within a round diamond.
Browse round diamond jewelry. Princess-cut diamonds are available in both square and rectangular shapes and are exceptionally brilliant because of the way they are cut. The color emitted from princess-cut diamonds is very unique.
While the color of other diamonds is displayed mainly in the center, the princess-cut diamonds show distinct color in each of the corners, as well. Browse princess-cut diamond jewelry. Marquise-cut diamonds are the perfect shape for maximizing carat weight by emphasizing the size of the diamond. Its unique shape makes the hands and fingers of its wearer appear longer and more slender. The outline of a diamond is determined by its length to width ratio, which also provides an idea of the shape and look of the diamond.
Browse marquise-cut diamond jewelry. Sometimes called a pillow-cut diamond, the cushion-cut is a timeless cut that earned its name for its pillow-like shape. A hard sentence to but I meant it.
In this article I will cover everything to do with diamond types. Regular white colorless diamonds. Not much to expand on them. Basically, these are probably what everybody imagine when you speak with them about diamonds. Before jumping to the next section, one of the below diamonds is a natural diamond and the other is a lab-grown diamond Can you tell which is which? Click on each of the images to learn which diamond types they are Lab grown diamonds also known as man-made diamonds are somewhat of a growinng trend that is developing more and more last few years.
As such, as technology evolved, these diamonds become cheaper and cheaper to manufacture. For example, both of the above diamonds are 1 carat, G color with SI1 clarity and excellent cuts. To learn more about diamond prices, check out our live diamond price calculator. Below is a graph showing the interest in this type of diamonds over the past five years:. Please note that these treatments are usually done to diamonds that cannot be sold otherwise and therefore these diamond prices are dramatically lower than the equivalent natural non-treated diamond.
Colored diamonds are extremely rare… approximately 1 to 10, compared to regular diamonds. The spike in awareness and with it demand came last decade as more and more celebs were seen wearing them — whether as fashion statements on the red carpet or received them as engagement rings… Most famous are the pink diamonds and canary yellow diamonds but these gorgeous diamonds come in all colors of the rainbow — Blue, purple, violet, red, green, yellow, gray, white, black… as well as combinations of these colors.
Basically there are hundreds of dazzling colors — you can drill deeper in our complete guide to diamond colors. Being so rare and expensive, these diamonds are also divided into subsets - Natural colored diamonds, Treated colored diamonds and lab grown colored diamonds. The most commonly known example or not known is the one of black diamonds.
Black diamonds are actually very rare. The truth is, you can read a diamond's history merely by knowing its type. This is because when diamonds are initially forming, certain elemental atoms - typically nitrogen - may substitute carbon atoms inside the crystal lattice.
Later, those atoms will move within the structure, often clustering together. These chemical impurities and structural anomalies are not visible with the naked eye, but they affect the diamonds' color and appearance. What's most unusual about the classification system is that a single stone can actually be assigned more than one Diamond Type.
With clarity, the types of diamond are gauged depending on the quantity and visibility of flaws. IF Internally Flawless - The external flaws can be removed by further polishing.
By definition, if an expert can see a flaw from the top of the diamond, it is a VVS2. If the expert can only detect flaws while viewing the bottom of the stone, then it is a VVS1. VVS1 clarity diamonds do not have any internal black marks. Then they also fall in the "No Dosham" or "No Black" category. I1 - I3 Included - Flaws are eminently visible and can be found with the naked eye. Size is the most visible factor that determines the value of all diamond types.
The price of the diamond rises exponentially depending on its size. By definition, 1 carat is milligram. Since most diamonds sold in the market weigh less than 1 carat, the carat is usually subdivided into "points". There are points in a single carat. Carat weight is not a factor that denotes diamond quality. While some of the other quality metrics have more bearing in the quality of specific types of diamonds, carat merely denotes the size of a diamond, by its weight.
Diamonds of 0. Large diamonds are rarer to find in mines than small ones and thus large diamond types are much more valuable. Diamond Rings. Emerald Rings. Ruby Rings.
Sapphire Rings. Amethyst Rings. Aquamarine Rings. London Blue Topaz Rings. Tanzanite Rings. Solitaire Rings. Vintage Rings. Promise Rings. Stackable Rings. Claddagh Rings. November Birthstone. December Birthstone. January Birthstone. February Birthstone. March Birthstone. April Birthstone.
May Birthstone. Diamond Engagement Rings. Black Diamond Engagement Rings. Emerald Engagement Rings. Ruby Engagement Rings. Ceylon Sapphire Engagement Rings. Aquamarine Engagement Rings.
Citrine Engagement Rings.
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