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What The Heck Is An "Ideal Cut" Emerald Diamond?
A consumer came on a popular diamond discussion forum just yesterday, asking about an emerald cut diamond he found on one of the online diamond websites.
The emerald cut diamond was defined by this particular vendor as being an "ideal cut" emerald diamond.
Consumer is pretty psyched about the prospect of purchasing an "ideal cut" emerald diamond..and asks advice from some of the experts. Here is a link to this thread.
There are two major problems with this stone being classified as an "Ideal cut" diamond:
1. There is no such classification as of this moment. Indeed, there is no such thing as an "ideal cut" diamond for loose diamonds of this particular shape and facet structure (emerald cut diamonds.). Therefore, to coin an emerald cut diamond with the term "ideal cut" is by definition misleading, unethical, and can only be designed to fool the customer into thinking the diamond is something which it clearly is not!!
2. The actual photograph and information of this particular diamond provided to the customer by the diamond vendor indicates a diamond with a culet that is off center by a whopping 8.4 percent!!
This skewered diamond is quite far from ideally cut, even if such a designation did exist for emerald cut diamonds!!
This is the photograph of the diamond posted by the consumer. Arrows outline the skewered symmetry of this misshapen stone.
This is what a properly cut emerald cut diamond ought to look like!!
Take a good look at the attached photo that clearly illustrates what a Well-Cut and correctly proportioned Emerald Cut diamond should look like.
This diamond is symmetrical.
1. The culet fact is in the center and aligned with the Table facet above (Blue Arrow).
2. The step facets emanating from the center culet facet are of the same size and equidistant from each other and adjacent facets (Red Arrows).
3. The East-West junction facets are symmetrical, of even size, and the same distance away from the culet's center point (Yellow Arrows).
4. The step facets at the diagonal junctions are of the same size and distance from each other (Green Arrows).
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