... from above...
In all fairness, big clean white diamonds are rare, though perhaps not as much as some may like to believe. In normal household sizes, hundreds of thousands, or millions of visually identical white diamonds fill the vaults of the old-world's fat-cats, waiting for, well, as they so pointedly said: ‘forever’.
Some web companies brag with half-a-million diamonds in one single database. I fail to see how this is supposed to be a compliment to any one of the unhappy 500.000 there on offer.
A list of visually identical untreated rubies or sapphires could be complied on a single sheet of paper. Alexandrites and Taafeite will fit on a post-it or two.
In short, working with white diamonds is terribly boring, bad karma, and the old fat-cats get leaner.
Natural-Color diamonds, on the contrary, are very different animals. They are rare, pretty, unique, and exciting. This fits the common definition of a gemstone, and only there we will work.
As with most other gem varieties, the majority of colored diamonds are treated or semi-synthetic mutants. Of course, we won’t touch these gems either. Fear not fracture filling, laser drills, surface coating, KM lasering, heat treatments, irradiation, annealing, or graphite deposits, nor their combination with 1001 other enhancement technics, plus all other secrets still out there.
A few worlds about diamond grading. It's a common saying that you can learn all about diamonds in a day, and all about opals in a life-time. This is true only for white diamonds. Natural-colored diamonds are as complicated as, say, sapphires, or tourmalines, less than opal or garnets but somewhere inbetween, no shame not to know all.
Generally, diamonds are cut and polished with far greater precision than other colored gemstones. This has historical and industrial reasons with which we will not bore you, unless asked for.
For our grading, you need to remember only two issues:
1. Even if a diamond is precision cut, it does NOT automatically get the honor of an 'excellent' in our grading-system. Within our raised standards a diamond must work harder to receive an excellent, say an innovative cutting or ideal-.
2. Regarding clarity we will maintain our grading system of ‘free of inclusions’ (lens-clean), ‘lightly included’ (eye-lean) and the rare ‘moderately included’. We will not follow the lets-make-it-complicated trick of IF to Sl1 etc.p.p. Either inclusions are visible with the lens, or the eye, or not at all, 'pasta'!
All other business rules remain unchanged. As all our gems, these diamonds protect 1000sqm of rainforest each at WLT and fight for animal rights with NHRP, they come to your home for free, fully documented and with all WildFish perks.
