Designer Diamond Engagement Ring
Wearing a diamond ring on the fourth finger of the left hand traced far back to the ancient Egypt, where it was believed that the vena amoris (the vein of love) ran from that finger directly into the heart. Placing a diamond, with its enduring power, on that finger, was seen as the ultimate way to connect love with eternity.
In order to find a perfect designer diamond engagement ring, the following steps will help you prepare to make a wise choice when purchasing a designer diamond engagement ring:
Find out her style
- Pay attention when she admires someone else’s ring
- Notice which advertisements or photographs of rings she likes
- Ask her friends and family what she likes
- Take time to notice the other jewelry she wears—whether she prefers a simple design or a more intricate one
- Note metal preference as well—white gold, yellow gold or platinum
- Learn about the 4Cs so that you can make an educated purchase
It is quite natural to bring your own diamond to a jeweler or you can pick a diamond at the jeweler’s reserve.
Many diamonds on the market today are cut with a bad proportion. A flawless, colorless rough diamond crystal can be cut to very fine or ideal proportions to deliver the greatest balance of dispersion and brilliance, or it can be cut to inferior proportions which yield a diamond that displays very little brilliance but weighs slightly heavier.
Many people whom purchase diamonds today are unable to identify a diamond with inferior cut. Because diamond cutters may have financial considerations not to cut off too much part from the rough diamond crystal, a great amount of diamonds sold on the market today have heavy or deep cut.
For designer diamond engagement rings, if your goal is to select the most attractive and brilliant diamond possible within a limited budget, it is important to consider selecting a quality diamond with a better cut, larger size or a higher color grade than it is to select a diamond with a very high clarity grade.
The girdle is the outer edge of a diamond. The grade of diamonds girdle is determined by the appearance of the girdle at its thinnest point and thickest point. A diamond's girdle can be faceted, polished smooth, or have a slightly granular appearance. Very fine cut diamonds often have faceted girdles. A diamond cutter must spend extra time to carefully facet a girdles edge. A faceted girdle does not improve a diamonds grade. Ideal girdle thickness should range between Very Thin to Thick. Sometimes a diamond
can have a perfect medium girdle around ninety-nine percent of its diameter and is only very thick at one very minute isolated point.
Diamond polish influences how well light can pass through a diamond and can be very important to a diamond's brilliance. It is necessary to select a diamond that is laboratory certified with good, very good or excellent polish. Diamonds that have poor to extremely poor polish are less brilliant because they have microscopic polish lines that blur the surface of the diamond. These polish lines reduce the amount of light that enters or exits a diamond. When selecting your diamond, be aware many diamonds possess
poor polish. Diamond cutters can greatly reduce labor costs by not taking time to properly polish a diamond.
It is also a crucial process to decide the metal you would like to use for your engagement ring. There are various choices now: gold, white gold, platinum, silver etc. However, jewelers often use combinations of different metals to create multi-toned designs, highlighting the metals as well as the diamonds they use. Titanium is also a preferred option recently.
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