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Filed under: About Diamond — Tags: , , , — Swasti @ 1:52 pm

Diamond Jewelry Store: Tips to Choose the Right Place to Shop
Executive Summary about Diamond Store by Mike Jerry

diamond jewelry store

diamond jewelry store

Choosing the right diamond store can be a difficult task. Here are some tips to help you avoid bad jewelry stores.

If the jeweler sells silver pieces for the same price as gold pieces, then you should avoid doing business with them. Additionally, if the jeweler specializes in handling cubic zirconium and other knock-offs of real diamond products, then chances are you should look elsewhere.

The larger the store, the more buying the store has to do for inventory. Because suppliers give the best deals to jewelers who purchase the most products, larger dealers can generally offer the lowest price on jewelry.

If you are purchasing a diamond for someone you truly care about, you should buy designer diamond jewelry. Finally, shop around. Look into multiple locations that sell jewelry.

Diamond jewelry can be very expensive, so you should be cautious when purchasing. Additionally, use common sense when shopping for diamonds.


Which Diamond Jewelry Store Has the Best Brand?
Executive Summary about Diamond Store by Vicente Ross

How does a person or company brand gold? 18 carat gold is 18 carat gold. Diamonds operate under the exact same principle; contrary to popular mis-belief, diamonds simply cannot be branded.

For example, following that logic, if Tommy’s Jewelry Store or the Helzberg Diamond Jewelry Store owns the diamond, then it is supposedly their perspective brand.

The largest diamond dealer in the world, De Beers is smart enough to know that they can’t brand a diamond; not even with their internationally recognized name.

Even if a highly acclaimed and well-known diamond cutter such as Clarence “Whitey” Koop or Mr. Leo Wins cuts a diamond, it still cannot be branded by them as a Koop Diamond or a Win Diamond.

Store brands mean something in terms of integrity, customer service, pricing and the authenticity of the diamonds.


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Engagement Diamonds

Filed under: Engagement & Wedding Diamond — Tags: , , , — Swasti @ 10:18 pm

Diamond Engagement Rings – So Many Beautiful Choices
Executive Summary about Engagement Diamonds by Brian Welsch

engagement diamond

engagement diamond

Diamond engagement rings, with their perfect clarity and indestructible nature, have come to symbolize the purity and eternal commitment between a man and his wife.

Diamonds are relatively new as gemstones for engagement rings, the result of some very clever marketing by the diamond trade industry about 150 years ago. Today, diamond engagement rings dominate the bridal jewelry industry.

Current bridal fashion favors a solitaire diamond engagement ring set in a band of yellow or white gold, sterling silver, or platinum. The cut of the diamond may catch your eye; Princess cut, Tiffany cut, Cartier cut, Square cut, Pear cut, Teardrop cut, Bezel cut, or Round cut – all are stunning and irresistible.

The clarity of the diamond engagement ring is important to many brides. Most diamond engagement rings must pass rigorous tests by the Gemologist International Association to be declared IF-VS2 clarity, and are considered to be either Ideal or Premium cut.

While we generally consider diamonds as being clear, in fact diamonds come in many colors such as yellow, blue, or pink. Colored diamonds are always the subject of delighted comments from buyers and friends of the bride who see these rings as unique and very meaningful.

An increasing trend among diamond engagement rings are cubic zirconium and moissanite stones. Among diamond traditionalists, these are “fake diamonds” of little or no worth. The only difference is that these diamonds are man-made in laboratories rather than by nature over hundreds of years.


Engagement Ring Diamonds
Executive Summary about Engagement Diamonds by Archie Cohen

People who are looking for diamond engagement rings should start with the Four C’s of diamonds since these are the benchmarks on how diamonds are graded and valued. The Four C’s of the diamond industry are the Cut, Clarity, Color and Carat of the diamond.

Shapes of loose diamonds include marquise, pear, heart, emerald, princess, cushion, and round brilliant.

The Cut of the diamond refers to the expertise and skill involved in the actual cutting and polishing of the diamond. A diamond with a excellent cut grading is one that will be able to show an excellent light performance.

A diamond’s clarity scoring is a measure of the number of blemishes and inclusions (also known as flaws) that a diamond has. As some jewelers point out, the inclusions of diamonds is one way of identifying a diamond because the patterns that these inclusions form act as the diamond’s fingerprint.

Colorless diamonds are scored using a letter scale which starts from a D rating (truly colorless) to a Z rating (brownish). A top quality diamond is one that is close to being colorless as possible.

The carat weight of the diamond is one of the critical considerations in how a diamond is priced.

The quality of the diamond for your engagement ring is rated by the combination of all the factors that were discussed in this article.


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Solitaire Diamond Rings

Filed under: Diamond Jewelry — Tags: , , , — Swasti @ 10:20 pm

Basics of Perfect Diamond Solitaire Engagement Rings
Executive Summary about Solitaire Diamond Rings by Ritu Raj Mishra

solitaire diamond ring

solitaire diamond ring

Though there are many options available for the couples, but diamond solitaire engagement rings are still the preferred choices of many couples due to the elegance and simplicity associated with the rings.

There is only one diamond placed on the top of the ring, so that the stone is clearly visible. Since there are no other stones studded on the surface of the ring, the solitaire diamond gets all the attention of the onlookers.

It is advisable to select a larger diamond so that it dominates over the ring even more. As far as shape of solitaires is concerned, round is the popular shape for the diamond.

Other shapes like marquise, emerald, pear and oval are also preferred and can appear larger on the diamond engagement rings.

Prong setting is usually the choice of the couples when they go shopping for the solitaires. But other settings such as bezel, flush and tension are also the choices that the couples can make.

The diamond must be purchased only after ensuring its good quality of color, cut, clarity and carat weight must also be known to the buyers. The overall cost of these rings remains affordable for most of the couples because there is one diamond to be purchased.


How to Pick the Right One From Online Solitaire Engagement Rings
Executive Summary about Solitaire Diamond Rings by Clara Ghomes

There are ways to get the kind of ring that you know will make your future partner, and yourself, happy.

With a buying limit imposed on the kind of ring you can buy, the number of solitaire engagement rings you look at could also drastically decrease, giving you a bigger chance of finding the right ring in a shorter period of time.

There are a lot of solitaire engagement rings that come in the more popular cuts of diamonds, like the emerald cut or the more common round, brilliant cut. There are also solitaire diamond rings that have stones cut in some of the more unique cuts for diamonds like the present favorite, the princess cut or the pear shaped diamonds.

Some solitaire engagement rings have diamonds that are cut in the heart shape or in the marquis style.

Solitaire diamond rings are often best seen set in either gold or platinum since these two precious metals are the most popular metals to pair with a precious diamond.

There are actually a lot of sites that let you build your solitaire engagement rings from scratch and they often let you start with their online diamond ring creator that features many different stones in different sizes, different ring settings.


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