Certified or certificated diamonds

Unlike what you may think buying a certificated diamond is not a guarantee that what you are buying is what you are receiving !!!

1: Diamond laboratories do not give you any type of recourse should their diamond report not be correct. Only your supplier can do this.

2:  Diamond graduation is not an exact science, the only things you can be absolutely sure all laboratories will agree upon are material (diamond) and weight (carat size).

Colour, Clarity and Cut are left to the appreciation of those expert examiners, working often on different equipment and, most importantly, different colour samples and lighting conditions.

Laboratories as the GIA, IGI and EGL will often give very different results for one and the same individual diamond.

We have seen differences of up to two colours and two clarities between them, so in the worst scenario, what you think is a 'G' VVS1 is, in fact an 'I' VS1.

This can mean a huge difference in the price, in this case in the region of 35%. So be wary !!!