Quick and Easy Buying Guide
Carat weight: 1 carat = 200 milligrams = 6.5 mm diameter. Doubling weight doesn't double diameter.
Diamond clarity: FL/IF/VVS/VS = super expensive, near perfect. SI = best value if you can check a photo for obvious inclusions (defects).
Color: D-G = colorless, expensive, only if you have money to burn. H-J = best value. Can go lower in gold metal settings than white metal.
Cut: Better cut ratings let more light into a diamond, making it sparkle more. Very important property, don't skimp here.
Set a budget and minimum cut (Premium). Go J color for gold and I/H for white metals. Go searching for SI1/SI2 clarity diamonds at James Allen. Pick a diamond with small/no inclusions. Choose a ring setting and buy it risk-free (60-day returns).
0.55 Carat Diamonds
Searching for 0.55 carat diamonds? Well, make sure you also use the term "55" point diamonds when you look on the internet using google or other search engines. Diamond carats, points and normal units of milligrams can all be converted between - this 0.55 carat diamond for example weighs 110 mg.
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I'm Jewish. I don't work out. If God had wanted us to bend over, He would have put diamonds on the floor. Joan Rivers .
The diameter of a 0.55 carat diamond is approximately 5.34 mm.
What many people don't realise is that a 5.34 mm wide diamond can be a range of weights, not just exactly 5 carats, because the diamond can vary in depth. If you like playing with numbers, one analysis method you can use for examining diamonds is to divide the cost of the diamond by the number of carats to get the cost per carat metric.
The width of the diamond grows much more slowly than the carat weight of a diamond. Diamonds with a size of 0.55 carats are aplenty, but diamonds with a size of 0.55 carats and all the other desirable properties of the diamond are not so common - so don't forget to think about these other properties.
Remember while the diamond may disappear into insignificance compared to a man's hand, women generally have significantly smaller hands with thinner fingers - the diamond will appear a lot larger when placed on their hand.
It's interesting to note that while the small carat diamond (by small i mean one or two carats) may have only been discovered relatively recently, many of the spectacular large diamonds were found many hundreds of years ago, such as the regent diamond of france which was used by two of the king louis's, with a mighty size of 140 carats.
People say the four cs for a reason - diamond carat size is just one of the four cs and the others are arguably just as important in determining how 'attractive' and 'good' a diamond is.