Pink Diamond Engagement Rings – A Buyer’s Guide

Executive Summary about Pink Diamond Rings by Susan Feingold

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Becoming all the rage, pink diamond engagement rings add a new twist to the traditional wedding ring with diamond. Traditional diamonds are colorless, it is their cut and shape that creates color effects based on how they capture the light.

Under the perfect conditions during the formation period for a diamond, while it is still in the ground, a gemstone can take on colors. A pink diamond offers a subtle color flair that helps accentuate the engagement ring that you are considering and creates a very desirable effect.

When hunting for the perfect gemstone for your engagement ring set, color is not the only consideration for finding value. Following color you should still keep in mind the diamonds, clarity, carat, and cut. A larger gemstone does not always equal a more valuable diamond, as clarity, cut and color must be taken into consideration as well. Small pink diamonds that are heavily colored are very rare and are of higher value for example.

There are various cuts available, determining shape and brilliance, but the most popular choices tend to be the princess cut pink diamond, marquis cuts, and round cuts. Your diamonds clarity refers to its inclusion of any flaws, cracks, or cloudiness.

Taking Care of Your Pink Diamond Ring

Executive Summary about Pink Diamond Rings by Dirk Rendel

A pink diamond ring, like most of the other rings that use colored diamonds, can be very beautiful and dear to the person who wears it. These diamonds are pretty rare and only available in certain parts of the world.

Not only is it important for you to clean the diamond properly, but you also need to do it without causing damage to the diamond (like scratches) or loosen up the setting of the diamond.

The very first thing to note that you must store these rings away properly. Use a soft cotton pouch or a cloth to store the ring, and then place it in the box it came in.

Don’t use just any cream or soap to clean your pink diamond. Don’t even go for the sprays and other solutions that are not specifically made to clean diamond rings.  This may result in the formation if an unwanted layer of sediments or a coating of chemicals on the pink diamond, even after you have tried to clean the diamond with utmost care.

For the best results, take your pink diamond ring to the jeweler and get expert advice on cleaning and maintenance to ensure your ring stays safe and looks great at all times.

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The Rare Blue Wittelsbach-Graff Diamond Exhibition in 2010

By Woro Swasti

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Diamond jewelry stones are always have high price due to their value. Some of them have extremely high value and of course, very expensive. Rare diamonds usually belong to this group of diamonds. One of the rarest blue diamond jewelry in the world is Wittelsbach-Graff Diamond.

Now the Wittelsbach-Graff Diamond is on display until August 2010. It is exhibited in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. No one knows when the diamond will be seen in public again after this exhibition, so this is the right time to watch this adorable rare blue diamond.

The Wittelsbach Blue diamond was in December 2008 auction, when Laurence Graff, a diamond dealer, paid more than $25m for this famous diamond. Graff repolished the diamond, made a reduction to it’s carat weight, and thus making it internally flawless. Now the diamond’s weight slightly over 31 carats and renamed Wittelsbach-Graff Diamond.

The Wittelsbach diamond originally weighs 35.56 metric carats. The diamond has an unusual pattern with 82 facets. The diamond was discovered many centuries ago at the diamond mine in India, the same origin as the Hope Diamond. Many believe that the two blue diamonds was fashioned from the same piece of rough French Blue Diamond.

In 1664, Philip IV of Spain gave the Wittelsbach blue diamond to his 15-year-old daughter, the Infanta Margareta Teresa, upon her engagement to Emperor Leopold I of Austria. The earlier history of the Wittelsbach was lost during the Spanish Civil War of 1936-39.

The beautiful diamond was last seen in public in Brussels at the 1958 World Exhibition. Six years later, the Wittelsbach was acquired by private collector until the auction in 2008.

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Canary Diamond

By Woro Swasti

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Canary diamond is a fancy color diamond, which have brilliant yellow color. Natural canary diamond is rare and expensive. Its rarity have made many jeweler created enhanced canary diamonds, with much more affordable prices.

To know whether your yellow canary diamond is natural or enhanced, always check the diamond’s certificate. This certificate will determine the quality of your diamond.

There are many popular cuts of canary diamonds, such as oval, pear, marquise, cushion, princess, and emerald cut diamond. Canary yellow diamonds can be found in all kinds of jewelry, including necklaces, earrings, and rings.

The term “canary” first considered as a diamond slang word, after a bright yellow songbird. In 1869 is the discovery of a huge sunflower yellow diamonds in South Africa. These bright stones were brought to the surface and that was when the word “canary” came to describe these diamonds.

Every colored diamonds contain impurities or defect which gave the color to the stones. In case with canary diamonds, the main impurity is nitrogen atoms. The nitrogen atoms are dispersed in the isolated sites of carbon crystal while the stone is forming. This give the stone their bright yellow tint. The natural yellow canary diamonds represents only 0.1% of natural diamonds, which is very rare.

Canary diamond rings are difficult to find. There are several famous canary stones, such as Tiffany Diamond with more than 280 carats weight, or Oppenheimer Diamond weighed in at more than 250 carat displayed at Smithsonian Museum.

Diamond canary engagement rings are beautiful and bright. Some people said these rings symbolizes relationship better and more beautiful than any bird’s song.

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