An excellent cut can make a diamond exhibit exceptional brilliance which can hide imperfections in clarity or color but a diamond with perfect color and clarity will look dull and dark if its cut is poor.
Ideal cut diamond vs excellent cut.
The golden rule is to choose excellent ideal cut diamonds to achieve superb sparkle.
An ideal cut diamond reflects almost all the light that enters it and is among the rarest cuts.
The ideal cut diamond is used as benchmark for grading all other diamonds.
When it comes to selecting an ideal diamond we recommend a quality diamond cut over anything else.
An ideal cut diamond is a round brilliant or princess cut diamond that is cut to ideal proportions and angles and has excellent polish and symmetry ratings.
In my years of experience i have never had a customer prefer a lower cut grade when comparing diamonds.
A well cut diamond will appear larger than a poorly cut diamond.
Gia very good cut vs excellent.
The reason is this.
Very good cut diamonds offer exceptional brilliance and fire.
In the simplest terms a diamond graded as ideal cut will be from ags diamond grading laboratory while a diamond graded as excellent cut will be graded from the gia diamond grading laboratory.
We recommend not going below a cut grade ideal 0 for ags and excellent for gia.
Super ideal cut vs excellent ideal cut diamonds.
For ags certified diamonds choose an ideal cut.
Hi i am looking at a 1 3ct vss1 e diamond excellent cut diamond graded by igi.
But i was told from a jeweler in london that i should be looking at getting an ideal cut and that it is very important.
As you can see both laboratories gave the diamond the same carat weight color clarity and overall cut grade of ags ideal gia excellent cut.
For gia certified diamonds we recommend choosing an excellent cut grade.
The proportions of the diamond are expressed slightly differently and this is one of the differences between the two gemological laboratories.
What this means is that a 9 carat diamond with excellent cut will appear larger than a 1 carat diamond with good cut.
And a diamond with an excellent cut has to have excellent or at least very good symmetry as well.
Just wanted your guys opinion on this and how important it really is considering how decent the other specs of the diamond are.
A large majority of the entering light reflects through the diamond s table.
When we search for a diamond we filter more heavily on cut.
