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!!!This Diamond was REJECTED during our evaluation!!!
It is not being offered for sale by our company...
This page serves only as an example of our evaluation process...

^{This GIA Graded, round brilliant ideal cut diamond weighing 1.28 carats and being of VS-2 in clarity and G color with inert fluorescence with zero ideal cut proportions and GIA Excellent polish and symmetry (the highest grade available from the GIA Laboratory) would have sold for $7,990.00 and been discounted to $7,220.00 for payment via wire transfer, plus shipping.  Price was based on the current diamond market as of 5/14/2003 and is subject to change without notice due to changes in the world diamond market...}

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The true purpose of this page is to provide insight into the diamond buying experience to help you avoid some of the pitfalls that can be experienced when buying a diamond from some of our competitors who don't take the time to personally evaluate the diamonds that they sell, instead they merely list diamonds for sale as copied from the various multiple listing services and then drop ship the diamond direct to their customers...  Let's see what you might have purchased if you had chosen this type of vendor to purchase this diamond from...
 

The first picture is a copy of the lab report which was copied from the virtual inventory provided by the cutter who produced this diamond, this is the same copy that would have been posted on the web site of one of our competitors or faxed to you if you had requested a copy of the report...  There is a red arrow located to the left of the plotting diagram which indicates where the feather that we rejected the stone over should have been indicated...  The wavy red line that is supposed to indicate the inclusion is so small on the lab report that it was not picked up by the scanner...  The inclusion is clearly indicated on the original lab report which is why you should insist on seeing the original lab report or at least in-depth clarity photographs of the diamond prior to purchasing it.  The last picture are the results of our OGI computerized proportions analysis confirming that the proportions of the diamond are within the range for the zero ideal cut rating, refer to this document for an explanation of how to interpret the results of the OGI analysis.  The OGI also estimates the pattern of light return based on the proportions of the diamond.

This is how the diamond "faces up" as seen through our Gem Scope.  A few of the diamond crystals plotted within the table facet are visible at this magnification so we have indicated their location with a red arrow in the second photograph, the feather is not visible at this magnification and thus might not appear to be a concern to you when you received the diamond and evaluated it using a standard 10x diamond grading loupe.  The third and fourth pictures are close-up's of the table facet, the cluster of diamond crystals is clearly visible...  We diffused the light source in the fourth picture which provides a different perspective of the inclusions and using this light source we are able to detect one of the "clouds not shown" as indicated under the comments section the lab report...  The cloud is located between the two light blue arrows which are pointing towards each other...  One of the reasons we rejected this diamond is that we feel that a cloud of this extent should have been plotted on the lab report because it is extensive.  By the way, a "cloud" is simply a group of pinpoint size diamond crystals and should not be confused with a "cloud" up in the sky because the effect is not the same.  The last two pictures are extreme close-up's of this group of inclusions as plotted within the table facet with the last picture being diffused.

The feather located along the edge of the stone as indicated here with a red arrow in the nine o'clock position is the primary reason that this diamond was rejected...  Although not apparent on the lab report, this inclusion breaks the girdle edge of the diamond and the red line actually should be shown breaking through the edge of the stone...  Sometimes the grader drawing the inclusion indicator will do so and sometimes they won't...  Sometimes feathers plotted along the edge of diamonds actually break the edge and other times they don't...  In this case, it does and as a result the diamond has been rejected because we feel that the feather presents a durability risk and may extend upon impact or during the setting process.  The light was diffused in the second photograph...  The third and fourth photographs are merely extreme close-up's of the feather...  Notice how you can't really tell that the feather breaks the edge in these pictures?  We'll get to that in a moment...  The last two pictures are extreme close-up's of the two feathers plotted crossing over the facet line of the kite shape bezel main and triangular upper girdle facets plotted in the eleven o'clock position, these do not present a durability risk...  The last picture was taken using diffused light...

Here is a close-up of the two feathers plotted within the bottom section of the stone as seen through our Gem Scope...  Other inclusions are visible, but we want you to focus on the feathers which are indicated with the red arrows.  The longer feather located between the two red arrows may not be a comforting sight, but it is located within the diamond and does not present a durability risk...  Lots of ice cubes have minor fractures within their structure as well, but have you ever tried to break an ice cube without using a lot of force?  The third and fourth pictures focus on the feather plotted in the three o'clock position of the bottom plotting diagram, this happens to be the same feather indicated in the nine o'clock position of the top plotting diagram and herein lies our concern...  The fourth picture was taken using diffused light.  The last two pictures were taken using darkfield magnification and represent what we see through our Gem Scope using 70x magnification, this is where we can see that the feather breaks the edge of the girdle and is likely to be a problem at some point down the road...  The second to the last picture is a side profile of the feather and as you can see, the facets of the girdle edge do not cover up the feather, this is because the feather is breaking the girdle edge...  The last picture is a top-down view of the feather as seen using 70x magnification...  Although the industry standard for grading diamonds is 10x magnification, we use much higher magnification when evaluating diamonds for our inventory and we don't sell any diamond that we have not personally evaluated to ensure that this type of merchandise does not reach our clients.

"DiamCalc" Computerized Mathematical Ray Tracing Analysis:

The DiamCalc program simulates the probable paths of light return based upon the proportions of the diamond as determined by the OGI Mega Scope.  The estimated paths of light return and the estimated percentages of light return or leakage for each beam of light do not remain constant...  Rather they change appropriately as the axis of the diamond is rotated and refer to a specific beam of light and not the overall visual effect...  Thus if there are indications of light leakage, those percentages refer only to a specific beam of light as portrayed passing through the stone at a specific angle and do not indicate "overall light leakage" values for the stone...  Leakage can thus be mathematically "eliminated" simply by rotating the axis of the stone, so the bottom line is don't get too caught up in the "meaning" of these images, we just post them because they're kind of cool and we realize that you would probably rather have access to them than not...  The reality however is that we only buy diamonds that impress us visually for our inventory, we don't rely on the results of this program as part of our selection process because we insist on personally evaluating every diamond that we represent to guarantee that it meets our personal selection criteria.  While this diamond was quite pretty and displayed a wonderful amount of brilliance, dispersion and overall scintillation it was rejected because of it's inclusions...

Although this diamond was represented as a "Hearts & Arrows" diamond to us by the cutter, the fact is that there is not enough space between the tips of the hearts and the v-shaped chevron's beneath them and thus this diamond does not meet our criteria for Hearts & Arrows...  It would have been sold merely as an ideal cut diamond...  The last picture is a DiamCalc computerized simulation of what the diamond might look like when viewed through a Fire Scope.  The white areas within all three images supposedly indicate light leakage within the stone, but we've never seen a diamond that does not exhibit similar amounts of light leakage so this should not be a concern...