• Carat weight

• Color
• Color Shade
• Fluorescence

• Clarity
• Luster
• Table Inclusion
• Black Inclusion
• Table Open
• Crown Open
• Pavilion Open
• Eye Clean

• Shape
• Cut
• Polish
• Symmetry
• H & A

One of the most essential characteristic of diamond is its weight giving the measure of its size, measured in ‘carats’ and ‘cents’. One carat equals to 100 cents and approx. equal to 0.2 gm. More the size of the diamond goes up; rarer it becomes and hence the value goes up.

Yet another important characteristic of a Diamond is Color. A diamond’s color grade is based on how noticeable the color is, also known as the depth of the color. Colorless diamonds are rarer and hence more valuable.
We divide standard color grades into three grades adding better and lower grades making it more precise i.e., “F” color is divided into “F+”, “F” and “F-”.

Most commonly found diamonds have yellow shade or tinge. Sometimes diamond show different tinge like brown, pink etc., depending on presence of Nitrogen or Boron atoms in the diamond structure. We provide the information about the shade of the diamond along with the color.

Fluorescence is emission of light under ultraviolet radiation. Fluorescence may also affect brilliance and color appearance of the stone.

Clarity is relative freedom from inclusions (inside) and blemishes (surface). Generally inclusions have more influence on diamond’s clarity. These inclusions are graded under 10x magnification in standard lighting conditions.
We divide conventional clarity grades into better and lower grades making it more precise i.e., “VS2” clarity is divided into “VS2+”, “VS2” and “VS2-” .

We refer to Luster as amount of overall brilliance coming out from the Diamond. This gets affected mainly due to certain type of inclusions like heavy cloud.

This explains inclusion on the table as compared to the total inclusion in the stone.

This explains nattical or black inclusion in the stone compared to total inclusion in the stone. We also provide its position for reference.

When an inclusion is opening on the surface, we provide this grade separately for all three different locations in the stone i.e., Table Open, Crown Open and Pavilion Open.

We grade diamonds for its visibility of inclusion with naked eye. When inclusions are not visible with naked or untrained eye, we call it E1 which is almost 100% Eye Clean.
When some of the inclusions are barely visible with naked eye, we call it E2 or 80% Eye Clean.
When inclusions are visible with naked eye, we call it E3 or No Eye Clean.

Diamonds can be cut into various shapes. Round Brilliant Cut is the most popular and commonly manufactured shape. All shapes other than Round are called Fancy Shapes. Though Round is our largest manufactured shape, we also manufacture Fancy shapes namely Princess, Pear, Heart, Oval, Marquise and Emerald.

Cut is an overall result of the angles and relative measurements. A diamond’s cut effects its light reflection and hence its overall appearance. Cut also determines diamond’s relative size (diameter) for a given weight.

Polish is a result of polishing process of the diamond. Polish is determined by mainly surface characteristics (blemishes) of the stone. As a thumb rule, better the polish, more the surface reflection is.

Symmetry is evenness of diamond’s shape and its facets. Better symmetry results in better light behavior. Better symmetry also shows better craftsmanship.

We grade diamonds for Hearts & Arrows (H&A). VG is our highest grade for H&A where all eight hearts and Arrows emerge to near perfection. We would say it is 90-100% H&A.
GD is our grade where all eight Hearts and Arrows are formed in the stone but may have minor imperfections in some of them. We would say it is 80-90% H&A.