Ideal Cut Diamond

Ideal cut is intended to maximize brilliance, and the typically smaller table sizes of these diamonds have the added benefit of creating a great deal of dispersion or 'fire' as well. Ideal quality diamonds are truly for the person who enjoys knowing that he has one of the finest things that money can buy. This category applies only to round diamonds.

There are many companies which claim to have the ideal cut nailed, but in fact there is a range for optimum potential of the diamond's brilliance and beauty.

There are many variables to consider when selecting a diamond, perhaps the most important being cut. For a diamond to be truly brilliant, it must be cut to ideal proportions... the proportions of the ideal cut diamond is as follows.

The ideal cut is a mathematical formula for cutting diamonds to precise angles and proportions to gain the optimum reflection and refraction of light. When a diamond is ideally cut, light rays from all sides are bent towards the center of the stone and are reflected back through the top in a blaze of light.

The American Gem Society (AGS), which is an association of retail jewelers, inaugurated a new diamond-grading laboratory in 1996. The members of this society have ever since supported the Ideal Cut Diamonds, which was first proposed by gem cutter Marcel Tolkowsky in 1919. His proposal for the Ideal cut diamond was based on a specific set of proportions for a round brilliant diamond.

However, AGS went a step further and developed a scale of 0 to 10 to determine the grade of a diamond. It was decided that Ideal Cut diamonds is to be graded as 0. So to speak the AGS 0 enlists the following ideal proportions that includes the table diameter being 53% to 57.5%; crown angle being 34º to 35º; crown height should be between 15% and 16.2 and the diamond’s total depth should be 60% to 62%.

Apart from AGS, there was another factor that increased the popularity of ideal cut diamonds. This was the diamond viewing mechanism called firescope. This devise pierces a red light into the diamond thereby creating a patter of reflections in accordance to its facets. This devise determines the symmetry of the diamond that is under scrutiny.

The symmetry, polish and proportions largely determine the price of an ideal cut diamond. Thus, craftsmanship is of utmost importance. All in all ideal cuts are stunning and fine-looking diamonds. These cut diamonds are not only smaller than a standard cut diamond; but are also longer and thinner.