Ensure the price you pay reflects the intrinsic value of a diamond. We recommend investing only in natural diamonds accompanied by certificates from top laboratories like GIA, IGI, and HRD, as these certifications guarantee authenticity and quality, safeguarding your investment. These certification institutes offer reliability through consistent grading. Repeated assessments yield similar quality scores, ensuring accuracy. Furthermore, they maintain objectivity by refraining from overestimating a diamond's value. Unlike other labs, GIA, IGI, and HRD are impervious to manipulation, safeguarding investor confidence.
When considering investments in certified diamonds, it's crucial to navigate past major pitfalls that could undermine the value and quality of your purchase. Here are key areas to be mindful of:
1. Overvalued Diamond Quality:
- In-house diamond certificates may inaccurately represent the diamond's true quality as they may be self-written by a company and are not supervised by an independent & acknowledged laboratory. In fact, a company would be free to choose on what to mention on the certificate and can easily over evaluate a diamond.
- Certificates from less reputable laboratories may not uphold the stringent standards of GIA, HRD, or IGI.
- Without a proper certificate, there's no tangible proof of the diamond's quality.
2. Non-transparent and Vague Information:
- Certificates that only provide color or clarity ranges potentially resulting in receiving a lower-quality diamond within that range, while the price for the higher quality is charged. This practice, that unfortunately still exists, results in paying a higher price for a lower quality.
- Vague descriptions that promise certain quality levels without specifying details, as the lack of comprehensive information about the diamond's quality can lead to uncertainty.
- Older grading systems, such as terms like 'Wesselton' or 'River', may lack clarity and precision in defining the diamond's characteristics.
