As you can see both laboratories gave the diamond the same carat weight color clarity and overall cut grade of ags ideal gia excellent cut.
Ideal cut diamond vs excellent cut.
Very good cut diamonds offer exceptional brilliance and fire.
An excellent cut can make a diamond exhibit exceptional brilliance which can hide imperfections in clarity or color but a diamond with perfect color and clarity will look dull and dark if its cut is poor.
An ideal cut diamond reflects almost all the light that enters it and is among the rarest cuts.
The golden rule is to choose excellent ideal cut diamonds to achieve superb sparkle.
And a diamond with an excellent cut has to have excellent or at least very good symmetry as well.
The term super ideal cut is generally used to refer to diamonds like the 0 924 carat f color vs 1 clarity brian gavin signature round hearts and arrows cut diamond which is described on the diamond grading report that appears above.
In the simplest terms a diamond graded as ideal cut will be from ags diamond grading laboratory while a diamond graded as excellent cut will be graded from the gia diamond grading laboratory.
Super ideal cut vs excellent ideal cut diamonds.
When it comes to selecting an ideal diamond we recommend a quality diamond cut over anything else.
A large majority of the entering light reflects through the diamond s table.
The gia defines a very good cut as follows.
What this means is that a 9 carat diamond with excellent cut will appear larger than a 1 carat diamond with good cut.
For ags certified diamonds choose an ideal cut.
That said i would advise you to go for a very good symmetry grade.
The proportions of the diamond are expressed slightly differently and this is one of the differences between the two gemological laboratories.
In my years of experience i have never had a customer prefer a lower cut grade when comparing diamonds.
Gia very good cut vs excellent.
Just wanted your guys opinion on this and how important it really is considering how decent the other specs of the diamond are.
Hi i am looking at a 1 3ct vss1 e diamond excellent cut diamond graded by igi.
We recommend not going below a cut grade ideal 0 for ags and excellent for gia.
The ideal cut diamond is used as benchmark for grading all other diamonds.
But i was told from a jeweler in london that i should be looking at getting an ideal cut and that it is very important.
When we search for a diamond we filter more heavily on cut.
For gia certified diamonds we recommend choosing an excellent cut grade.