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).
0.47 Carat F Color SI1 Clarity Premium Cut Round Cut Diamond Available Now
There's nothing you can tell about this diamond's color from a photo - and there's no need, as it's an F color - but you should be looking at the photo to check whether the diamond's SI1 clarity grading is because of any unacceptably visible defects and inclusions.
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Shape: Round Carat weight: 0.47 Cut: Premium Color: F Clarity: SI1 Price: $870 Certificate: GIA Depth: 62.6% Table: 58.0% Polish: Good Symmetry: Very Good Culet: None Fluorescence: None Measurements: 4.97*4.94*3.10 Item number: 1350811 |
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SI is short for for Slightly Included; that means this SI1 stone has inclusions which are certainly visible at 10 x magnification and possibly to the naked eye, but which offer the potential for bargains if they're not. For any diamond, a price of $870 puts it in the cheapest set of diamonds, especially for engagement rings. There is a blank in the girdle description for this diamond - it is possible for a diamond to have no girdle, making it a knife-edge girdle. The cut rating of this diamond (Premium) has it smack bang in the middle of the road between cut quality and cheapness of diamond.
To the naked eye, this F color diamond by itself appears pure white - there is no method to detect any color in the diamond using only the human eye and no other nearby diamonds, or to differentiate it from others within the colorless range. If you look at this 0.47 carat stone and immediately say, "that carat size is too small", ponder whether you can compromise by lowering other properties, for example color or cut in order to go for a larger diamond.