How To Price A Diamond
... Among all of the things I have learned at Moses Jewelers, the number one industry I most enjoyed learning about was the Diamond industry. ... The owners of Moses Jewelers gave me books and books of reading material, including a self-teaching coarse from the Gemological Institution of America (GIA) on Diamond grading. ... A diamonds Cut is a very important factor in its price. The number one goal, when cutting a diamond, is to maximize the refraction of light back out of the diamond to the viewers eyes. The more light refracted through the top of the stone, the more brilliant and “sparkly” a diamond appears. ... It takes a perfect cut to keep a diamond’s worth. ... In addition to a diamond’s cut, color also plays an important price factor. ... A diamond’s exact color can be determined and compared to a pricing scale and then used to determine its final price.