What Dictates The Value Of A Diamond?
These days valuing a diamond, when done professionally, is a rather scientific undergoing and is determined almost entirely by what is commonly referred to as a diamond’s ‘grade’.
A diamond’s ‘grade’ is established according to how it scores when put to the test of the now commonly known about ‘four C’s’.
Many of the world’s most high quality diamonds used today and to create contemporary diamond engagement rings are as well bought and sold bearing a gemmological laboratory report issued by the G.I.A. denoting a diamond’s grade as established by the ‘four C’s’.
The Four C’s as a valuing tool, it might surprise many to learn, are an extremely modern means of valuing diamonds. In fact, the ‘four C’s’ only became the standard means of assessing the worth of a diamond during the 1940’s.
Modern diamond grading using the ‘four C’s’ was established by the Gemmological Institute of America in an attempt to provide the jewellery world with a more solid and standardised means of grading diamonds so that they could be bought, sold and insured more easily and fairly.
As such, the ‘four C’s’ are the best and most modern means of assessing a diamond’s value in today’s market.
...But What are The Four C’s?