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Lab Grown Diamonds

Guides, stories, and answers about lab-grown diamonds, moissanite, and fine jewellery β€” written by our atelier.

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Buying a Matched Pair
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Buying a Matched Pair

The hardest matching problem in jewellery, because both objects are worn at the same height, on the same person, at the same...

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Clarity in an Emerald Cut

Clarity in an Emerald Cut

A brilliant hides inclusions by accident; an emerald cut has no mechanism for hiding anything. What grade to buy, and why the...

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Emerald Cut Length-to-Width Ratio: What the Numbers Meanbuying guide

Emerald Cut Length-to-Width Ratio: What the Numbers Mean

The length-to-width ratio decides how an emerald cut reads on a hand, and it is printed on no grading report. Here is...

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What the Report Does Not Tell You

What the Report Does Not Tell You

Reports are honest documents that do exactly what they claim β€” buyers just treat them as a complete assessment, which they were...

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What Actually Happens at a Grading Laboratory

What Actually Happens at a Grading Laboratory

How each figure on a report is produced β€” and why that tells you which lines to trust absolutely and which need...

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Buying the Stone and the Setting Separately

Buying the Stone and the Setting Separately

Real control and a real saving β€” with one structural difference: two parties, one object, and a handover in the middle that...

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Under One Carat: Where the Grades Stop Mattering

Under One Carat: Where the Grades Stop Mattering

Below a carat two of the four Cs stop earning their price and one becomes more important β€” because both depend on...

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Diamond Hoops and Huggies: Where the Weight Goes

Diamond Hoops and Huggies: Where the Weight Goes

Diameter is what people choose by; weight is what they live with. Closures ranked, inside-out settings, and why melee grades can't be...

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Reading the Plot Diagram

Reading the Plot Diagram

Every report has one and hardly anyone opens it. What the symbols mean, why position beats grade, and how to have a...

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Matching the Colour Grade to the Metal

Matching the Colour Grade to the Metal

Grading conditions are designed to reveal differences you'll never see once set. Let the setting choose the grade β€” and put the...

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