Diamond Certificates

What is the benefit of having a diamond certificate?
There are a few reasons for having a certificate with your diamond ring. One good reason is peace of mind, you know exactly what you are paying for when you have a certificate that goes along with the stone. I means that the stone has been scrutinized to the end degree in a laboratory and has undergone tests to see what grade it fall under.
At the same time it must be realised that each grading laboratory has its own criteria as to what grade to give each stone as it passes through the system and proving that it is not an exact science. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder they say and in the case of diamonds, this hold true. Every stone is different and you have to actually have to see a diamond with your own eyes rather than read about its qualities on paper to truly appreciate what it has to say.
Another good reason to have a certificate with your diamond is for the long term when you go to sell you're stone, privately you will get more for a ring when you go to sell it rather that go to a jewelry shop so a certificate will come in useful there. Its a verifiable backup and you can contact any of the laboratories in this regard using the unique reference code that is contained on the certificate. All laboratories keep a record of the stones they process so verification is not a problem.

There are a host of different diamond certification laboratories world wide, the most well know would be IGI (International Gemological Institute) & GIA Gemological Institute of America, Others would be EGL (European Gemological Laboratory), HKD diamond Laboratories (Canada, DCLA (Diamond Certification Laboratory of Australia) and HRD (Antwerp World Diamond Center). All of these are major Labs set up for large companies that mine and cut their own stones throughout various parts of the world, right down to the customers that simply want to get a stone graded in a ring that the own. Theoretically any stone can be graded and certified but usually anything under .50ct is not, unless it is of unusually good quality in which case its good to have its specs written on paper.

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