Tiffany I colour diamonds?

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#166
I've posted this info in several threads now, but ideally a 55% table and 59-61% depth. You can go 56-57 on table as needed, but you don't want above a 61.5 depth whenever possible. Thin or thin-medium girdle. Angles will interplay based on those numbers and we can go from there so we'll deal with those when they're provided. You want ANGLES for the crown and pavilion, NOT PERCENTAGES. You will likely be waiting a while for those numbers to come up bec Tiffany likes deep stones which won't face up properly for the carat weight.
 
#167
cupcake34 said:
In order to speed up the searching process a bit, what shall I tell my SA to look for (e.g. type of girdle, table, depth)? Are there ranges that are best so that we can narrow down the choices?
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Try working with a sales manager, or talk to someone in the store to get a recommendation of who to work with for great service. The person I am working with provided me good details and has been inputting the angles, etc, into the HCA. I told him my parameters, and he brings on only those that score below two to view. He does the research for me.
 
#168
I've posted this info in several threads now, but ideally a 55% table and 59-61% depth. You can go 56-57 on table as needed, but you don't want above a 61.5 depth whenever possible. Thin or thin-medium girdle. Angles will interplay based on those numbers and we can go from there so we'll deal with those when they're provided. You want ANGLES for the crown and pavilion, NOT PERCENTAGES. You will likely be waiting a while for those numbers to come up bec Tiffany likes deep stones which won't face up properly for the carat weight.
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Thanks ame!
 
#170
ame said:
I've posted this info in several threads now, but ideally a 55% table and 59-61% depth. You can go 56-57 on table as needed, but you don't want above a 61.5 depth whenever possible. Thin or thin-medium girdle. Angles will interplay based on those numbers and we can go from there so we'll deal with those when they're provided. You want ANGLES for the crown and pavilion, NOT PERCENTAGES. You will likely be waiting a while for those numbers to come up bec Tiffany likes deep stones which won't face up properly for the carat weight.
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Ame, do all Heart and Arrows diamonds fall under the super-ideal category? I do see some with depths in the 62% range so they wouldn't be ideal category right even though the other categories (table, crown, pavillion, etc.) all fall under that category? I'm so confused.
 
#171
No. There are some that will exhibit the pattern (not perfect arrows or hearts, just the pattern) that fall outside of ideal. And some that are not even close to the pattern are marketed as such anyway. Truly perfect hearts and arrows SHOULD be superideals though. The problem is you cannot usually see those unless the stones are unmounted and you have ASETS and IdealScopes to view the stones unmounted with.
 
#172
ame said:
No. There are some that will exhibit the pattern (not perfect arrows or hearts, just the pattern) that fall outside of ideal. And some that are not even close to the pattern are marketed as such anyway. Truly perfect hearts and arrows SHOULD be superideals though. The problem is you cannot usually see those unless the stones are unmounted and you have ASETS and IdealScopes to view the stones unmounted with.
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Interesting.
 
#173
H&A is now mostly a marketing term. It's still a pattern exhibited by the best cut stones, yes, but it's mostly been coined as marketing jargon. So there are many jewelers out there that will label a stone as such, even one which is NOT well cut, and is NOT really at ALL an H&A stone, it might have a couple arrows or there are some wonky hearts, but that to them seems to qualify, despite NOT being really an H&A stone.
 
#174
ame said:
H&A is now mostly a marketing term. It's still a pattern exhibited by the best cut stones, yes, but it's mostly been coined as marketing jargon. So there are many jewelers out there that will label a stone as such, even one which is NOT well cut, and is NOT really at ALL an H&A stone, it might have a couple arrows or there are some wonky hearts, but that to them seems to qualify, despite NOT being really an H&A stone.
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My biggest hiccup with true H&A is that I don't particularly like the look of the thick black arrows when they are apparent at certain angles. In mines I can see all the arrows, but they are not bolded black but more of a grayish color that does show some blacks in certain angle. Mines is not true H&A even though the arrows are pretty well lined up.
 
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