Jewellery News and Reviews

For the special day, everyone wants everything to be just perfect. Finding a perfect diamond band can be quite difficult as there are too many designs and styles to choose from. Diamond bands for men can be as ornate as those for women.

In designing diamond bands, many precious metals are used, and some of the most common are gold, titanium and platinum. Most people prefer yellow, even though white or rose gold are also the regular alternatives, as they create visual interest. Gold is a soft metal, it is hence usually worked with other hard metals in order to make the design more durable, and increase the strength of diamond bands.

In diamond bands, use of platinum has become quite common these days. Platinum is denser than gold, and hence rings made from platinum are heavier. There is no need to add other metals to platinum, it can be used in the pure form.

Considerations While Buying a Diamond Band

There are numerous designs available for diamond bands within any price range. Lifestyle is a main factor that should be considered to choose the design of the diamond band. If you work out, choose the design with more securely set diamonds, and choose the higher quality and durable metal. However, decision regarding metal and design is a matter of personal taste.

Well-suited set of the diamond band is necessary. Band should sit comfortably on the finger, and it should neither pinch, nor move during arm or hand movements. The width and shape of diamond band can also affect the fit. Usually, rounded edges are more comfortable as compared to blunt or flat edges. Width of the ring should be in proportion to finger length and hand size in order to have a good fit.

A lightweight diamond band ring would be flimsy, and it would dent and bend at the slightest impact. The beauty of diamonds hypnotizes most of the buyers, and jewelers take advantage of it by giving the bands that are not durable. They sell the low quality merchandise, at high price. It is hence important not to fall for the gimmicks, as you would like to pay for good quality diamond band ring, and not just a low quality piece of junk.

Choose the diamond eternity band that looks elegant and unassuming. The diamond band should be impressive, but without a hint of show-off. Many people like the combination of something old and something new to create a unique diamond band with antique setting.

Our love of diamonds and admiration of their fire and brilliance has given rise to many different cuts of diamonds. While we still see some of the earliest styles of diamond cuts – such as the round and emerald-cut, there are many more types of diamond cuts today, some of them patented by their original designers and costing hundreds of thousands of dollars.

The most popular cut for a diamond ring today is still the round, brilliant cut. It was developed in the 17th century in Venice. It is still preferred when the raw crystal is in an octahedron formation. Even though nearly 50% of the stone is cut away in the process, often two stones can be carved from an octahedron. More unusually-shaped stones are used for unique cuts, such as a marquise, pear or heart-shaped diamond. The earliest brilliants had 17 facets on the top of the stone and were called double-cut. This was soon improved with stones cut with 33 facets and were called triple-cut brilliants.

In the 19th century, with the development of better gem-cutting tools, more innovations in diamond cutting styles were developed. In 1919, Marcel Tolkowsky combined the art of cutting with the science of light and refraction and published his book, Diamond Design. These relatively recent geometric calculations were the forerunner of much of diamond cutting work today and led to other, more precise mathematical models engineered to enhance the fire and brilliance of diamonds.

There are now cuts such as the princess cut, trillions, ovals, pear and heart-shaped. Some innovative cutters have even fashioned star or butterfly-shaped diamonds! One patented cut, the Ashoka diamond, is an oblong cut with rounded, brilliant ends, and requires a stone 3 carats or larger. It’s an exceptionally beautiful (and pricey!) diamond shape. Tiffany & Co. has also patented a cut of diamond called the Lucida cut. It’s the lucky bride whose fiancé gives her one of these highly coveted stones!

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Gem cutting – How it has changed over the years (50% of the original rough diamond is lost during the cutting of a round brilliant gem)

How does a mass of mineral or crystal become an attractive diamond, ruby or sapphire? It’s an amazing process called gem cutting or lapidary and makes all the difference in the final value of the stone. It was developed first in Venice in the early 1300’s and was seen in Paris and Bruges in the mid-1400s.Great cutting is a precise art that catches the light just and captures the beauty of the gem. Poor cutting destroys it.

Most gems start out actually being sawed with a special lapidary saw into a rough shape, such as square, round, pear or marquise. It’s then ground with a diamond-infused wheel to further refine the shape. The gem cutter uses a series of finer and finer abrasives to get closer to the clear heart of the gem. Cabochon gems are polished to a smooth overall surface, sometimes held by hand, but more often fixed or “dopped” with wax or adhesive to a dowel to hold it while the lapidarist polishes the stone.

Transparent stones are most often faceted, a process where flat planes of the stone are cut and polished over the surface in a precise, symmetrical pattern. It’s critical that the planes match up perfectly, or the beauty of how the light is captured by the facets will be lost.
If a stone is cut to flat, the brilliance of the gem will also be lost. When a stone is properly faceted, it captures the light so it bounces around inside the stone, giving it the sparkle we love and that helps determine the value of the gem. If the stone is cut too flat, or the facets don’t meet precisely, the light doesn’t bounce off the angles in the facets to maximum effect.

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