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).
2.61 Carat Diamonds
Each point in a diamond's weight is worth 2 mg, so a 261 points diamond weighs 522 mg.
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The diameter of a 2.61 carat diamond is approximately 9.02 mm.
Searching for diamonds will often reveal many possible candidates and one way to help differentiate among them is to work out the costs per carat value for each diamond.
Savvy diamond buyers have learnt to search for diamonds that do not have round numbers in their carat weight - for example, these buyers will search for a diamond with the carat weight just below one or two carats. If you found this page, you probably were searching for something like a 2.61 diamond. The problem is there are thousands of pages with information on 2.61 diamonds, so to narrow down your search try adding other terms such as whether you want a premium, ideal or good cut of diamond.
It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver. Mahatma Gandhi.
Many men when shopping for a diamond engagement ring will look at how big the diamond looks in comparison to their own hand, when they really should be looking at how big the diamond looks in comparison to a female shop assistant's hand who has a hand similar in size to their prospective fiance.
Depending on personal preference, people may choose to get a smaller diamond in order to get a higher colour grade, such as d, e or f. It's heartening to know (if you're a billionaire) that there are actually very large diamonds which are colourless, such as the centenary diamond, which is a grade d colour diamond that comes in at the whopping weight of 273 carats.
Don't forget to think about other diamond characteristics such as diamond cut, which plays a critical role in determining the amount of light that gets into the diamond and the degree to which the diamond sparkles in light.