Hearts and Arrows Diamonds. Why you should buy one.
As you learn more and more about loose diamonds, you will come to understand that the ideal cut round diamond, will have the most refracted brilliance from any other diamond. Another hallmark of the finest ideal cut diamonds is the hearts and arrows patterning exhibited in these stones. There are many visual benefits in diamonds that have hearts and arrows patterning within the stone. These benefits will be most noticeable when the diamond is viewed in various lighting conditions. This is an important factor, since a loose diamond, when worn on her finger, is not a static object. Rather, it is constantly moving with every motion of her hand. These movements will play the light off of the diamond in a brilliant array of brilliance, fire, and scintillation, but, only when the diamond is cut for maximum brilliancy.
A diamond, when viewed under direct light (such as the overhead spot lights in most jewelry stores) will make almost all diamonds sizzle with life and fire. Obviously, how much fire and brilliance you will see, is largely dependant on the precision cut of the diamond. However, since this kind of lighting is entering and exiting through the diamond with such intensity, it will actually give an (inaccurate or fake) illusion of brilliancy even in poorly cut diamonds. It is for this reason that jewelry stores invest so much effort and money in their overhead and showcase halogen lighting, so as to give themselves an unfair advantage and trick the customer into buying poor quality diamonds that “look great in the store”.
The real trick of evaluating a loose diamonds beauty and light performance would be in sub-par lighting conditions, such as under a cloudy sky or drab office lighting. You may ask yourself, why cheat the diamond out of its ability to shine? The answer is that a diamond that has been cut for maximum beauty generates its own brilliance and light performance. It does not need to rely on an artificial light source to give it an appearance of being beautiful. Therefore, under typical office lighting, otherwise know as diffuse lighting, you would typically see less of a diamond’s dispersive qualities. This will be true for poorly cut diamonds. However, in a well cut diamond the excellent return of white light will be able to compensate for the somewhat muted fire in this environment. Ideal cut diamonds will certainly exhibit excellent light return in all environments.
Hearts & Arrows patterning in a loose diamond will make the diamond perform even better than typical ideal cut quality diamonds in practically any lighting environment. This is because Hearts & Arrows diamonds due to the precision of their facet alignment and placement will create increased contrast brilliance in the diamond.
The most noticeable type of lighting environment where a hearts and arrows round diamond will really shine, is under soft ambient or restaurant lighting. One of the biggest joys of owning a true ideal cut hearts and arrows diamond is to examine the diamond under dim candlelight or in a parking lot at night! Under these types of lighting conditions, a hearts and arrows diamond will absolutely explode with flashes of light that will be noticed from across the room! This is a direct result of the diamond’s perfect facet alignment which takes in all surrounding light and maximizes its refraction back to the eye in a prismatic burst of fire from all facets working in tandem.
Another much discussed advantage of buying a hearts and arrows or superideal cut diamond, is the effect of brilliancy on the wearers perception of the diamonds face-up color. All loose diamonds are assigned a color grade based on an evaluation of the diamonds appearance in the face-down position when viewed through the profile. The reason diamonds are graded this way, is because well cut diamonds that exhibit maximum light performance and brilliancy will actually create the appearance of a ‘whiter’ diamond. In the case of certain ideal cut diamonds, AGS-0 diamonds, and certainly superideal cut diamonds, this has proven to be true to the tune of 2 color grades better than the actual designation!! Therefore, diamonds have to be color graded in a way that will give the grader the best chance of eliminating the (advantage of) superior light performance in a well cut diamond! The only way to do this is by assessing a diamonds color grade in the position where brilliance, fire, and scintillation would not be harnessed and refracted back to the eye in a well cut diamond!
For all of these reasons, more and more customers are searching out the most beautiful diamonds, or hearts & arrows diamonds that money can buy!
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