It’s worth diverting some of your diamond budget towards the best possible cut grade you can get as it is the key determinant on how brilliant your diamond looks. I recommend ‘excellent’ or ‘ideal’ (the terminology sometimes changes depending on the retailer), to make sure that you get a dazzling diamond that will do your engagement ring justice. Jewelers play on people’s obsession with diamond size and ignorance of the importance of cut to maximise profit, which is pretty understandable.īut, if you don’t want to get stuck with one of the larger but poorly cut diamonds that just doesn’t sparkle, make sure you go for the highest cut grade you can. You might wonder why all round brilliant diamonds aren’t cut to be the best cut they can be, and the reason is because the diamond cutters can often make more money by cutting larger, but poorer quality stones.įor example, the below rough stone could either be cut to provide two diamonds that weigh 3 carats between them that have a ‘fair’ gut grade and sell for a total of $35,000, or could be cut to produce two round brilliant diamonds that weigh 2.2 carats with excellent cut grade which are only worth $20,000. Ideally your stone’s culet should be either none / very small / small or medium. However, a large culet could also possibly be visible when the diamond is viewed from above. If the bottom of a diamond has been squared away then it’s said to have a large culet, and if it has been left as a point then it has no culet:Ĭulets are added to make the stone less likely to chip when it is being placed in the ring setting. The culet is the bottom point of a diamond, or more precisely, a lack of a point.
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