Buying Engagement Rings - Diamond Cut and Craftsmanship

Diamond Cut and Craftsmanship

We hope you find this guide to buying engagement rings helpful but if you have any questions please don't hesitate to contact customer services.

What is Diamond Cut?

The diamond cut grade refers to how symmetrical or well proportioned the diamond is cut, diamonds with a better symmetry mean more sparkle and brilliance! Therefore diamonds with less symmetry create less sparkle and are less desirable. It is highly recommended that you only look at the Very Good or Excellent cut grades for Engagement Rings.

These are the different diamond cut grades:

1. Excellent cut
2. Very Good cut
3. Good cut
4. Fair cut
5. Poor cut

Which Diamond Cut Grades do 1791 Diamonds Australia Sell?

We believe in selling only the highest quality diamonds and are proud to only use Very Good or Excellent cut grades in all of our Designer Engagement Rings, nothing but the very best is acceptable for your once in a lifetime purchase of an Engagement Ring, this fact sets us apart from the average jeweller.

Please see our Design Philosophy and Diamond Policy for more details.

The Jasmine Engagement Ring in White Gold from the Modena Engagement Rings Collection.	1791 Diamonds Australia Multi Stone Engagement Rings.

The Importance of the Diamond Cut

The diamond cut greatly affects the appearance of a diamond, this diagram below shows how diamonds with a low cut grade can leak light and not sparkle, this is why it is important to go for Very Good or Excellent cut grades which is what we sell at 1791 Diamonds Australia.

Diamonds with a high cut grade are bright, beautiful and scatter a myriad of tiny rainbow coloured dots around the room whereas diamonds with a low cut grade will not have this beautiful sparkle, they can look like dull grey glass and that is not what you want for your Engagement Ring!

With 1791 Diamonds Australia you can be sure of getting only the best quality diamond cut grades, therefore having the utmost sparkle from your Designer Engagement Ring.

Information on Diamond Cut

Diamonds with Excellent and Very Good cut have exceptional fire and brilliance, the fire is the bright coloured sparkle that the diamond creates and the brilliance is the contrasting black and white faces as you look inside the diamond, the fire and brilliance is what everyone looks for in a diamond and especially for Engagement Rings!

It was a mathematician named Tolkowsky who famously calculated the angles and percentages of the Round Brilliant diamond, he did this to optimise the amount of light that is refracted out of the top of the diamond, he called this the 'ideal cut', Tolkowsky is the man to thank for the beautiful fire and brilliance that we see in round brilliant diamonds today.

Excellent Diamond Cut

Diamonds with an excellent cut are as close as possible to ideal proportions, this maximises the brilliance in the diamond. Excellent cut diamonds with smaller table (top of the diamond) sizes have the added benefit of causing a huge amount of fire in the diamond.

Very Good Diamond Cut

Diamonds with a very good cut deviate only slightly from the ideal cut proportions. Very good cut diamonds do refract the majority of the light through the top of the diamond, this creates a good deal of brilliance.

Good Diamond Cut

The proportions of a diamond with a good cut are a fair way from the 'ideal cut'. Often the cutter has compromised the cut quality in order to optimise the overall size of the diamond. Diamonds with a good cut will reflect much less light out through the top of the diamond. We do not sell Engagement Rings with good cut diamonds.

Fair and Poor Diamond Cut

Diamonds with a fair or poor cut grade are cut to a low standard and will only reflect a small amount of the light that enters it, in turn losing the fire and brilliance. Typically diamonds with a fair or poor cut grade have been cut to optimise the carat weight over pretty much everything else. We do not sell Engagement Rings with fair or poor cut diamonds.

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