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Cut & Light Performance
One of the most important factors in a diamond's beauty is the cut, or make, which creates its sparkle. A diamond is a gatherer and reflector of light. An ideally proportioned, symmetrical, polished diamond maximizes the amount of light returned to the eye, which maximizes beauty. Light is lost when the cut is imprecise or of poor proportion, which gives a dark look and reduces beauty. But this doesn't tell the whole story. Two diamonds with ideal proportions can have significantly different sparkle and beauty.
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IDEAL CUT/MAXIMUM LIGHT PERFORMANCE
Delivers the maximum light return and very most beautiful diamond. |
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DEEP CUT
Often termed a nailhead, the majority of all diamonds are cut deep to save weight. Lost light gives it a dark center. |
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SHALLOW CUT
Know as a fisheye, these diamonds show an unattractive reflection, in addition to an overall glassy look caused from lost light. |
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| Beauty is a combination of factors, which determine Light Performance: brilliance (total light return), fire (colored light return, or dispersion), and scintillation (sparkle). Tallmon's measures these three factors and assigns grades from Low to Very High. By evaluating ideal-cuts such as Lazare, Hearts & Arrows, and AGS 0, we are able to provide the most beautiful diamonds the world has to offer. |
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