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SOLD....Halo Antique Diamond Ring: 1.45 DBL Branded Antique Cushion Diamond in Uber Halo R4068

antique diamond


Diamond Halo Ring

featuring "Double Decker Cushion"


ITEM #: R4068
WEIGHT: 1.45ct
SHAPE: Branded DBL "Double Decker Cushion
COLOR: Y-Z, Natural Light Yellow
CLARITY: SI2
MEASUREMENTS: 6.73 x 5.91 x 4.28 mm
TOTAL DEPTH: 72.3%
TABLE SIZE: 42.0%
POLISH: VG
SYMMETRY: G
FLUORESCENCE: NONE
GIA REPORT #: 2135581892

SIDE STONES:
TOTAL WEIGHT: 0.44cts
QUANTITY: 51
SHAPE: Round Brilliant
COLOR: E-F
CLARITY: VS

MOUNTING:
Platinum and 18Karat Yellow Gold

Currently sized at: 6
We will ship the ring in your size

Original GIA Report ships with item. We also include our comprehensive appraisal for identification or insurance purposes. How much will my new diamond appraise for?

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We are proud of our branded Diamonds by Lauren diamonds.

It's easy to see why people are drawn to older diamonds. With that desire as our guide, we wanted to find a way to see an antique cut- but in the Fancy Colors that we love in other shapes.  

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This particular diamond, graded Y-Z color by GIA, now looks every bit a Fancy Yellow, grade by how it looks.

I think it's a mark of both how difficult it is to grade these colors- and the fact they've rarely, if ever, had to grade stones cut like this in these colors- that I feel there's been a bit of inconsistency in the grading. I feel that a Radiant Cut with this amount of perceived yellow would have gotten Fancy Light Yellow- or even Fancy Yellow

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At arms length, it could almost be an Emerald Cut- because there is some "steppy-ness" to the cut.

Although you can see the little "garden" in the center of the stone in these photos, it's very hard to see in real life.

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Hand Forged Beauty

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The photos above are ACTUAL Photos of the diamond and ring you will receive.

Why are older cut diamonds rare?

You might ask yourself, since diamonds last virtually forever, what happens to all the older diamonds?

It could very well be that the diamond someone selects today, which is" brand-new", is actually a recut of an old diamond.

If a diamond was a really good diamond from way back when, it makes all the sense in the world to recut that diamond to modern standards, from a financial standpoint.

That's one reason a lot of the older stones which survived intact, of those that are not high white diamonds. There's far more financial incentive

 

Why don't we see more older stones in fancy colors?

It stands to reason that when they mined diamonds in the old days, they unearthed some fancy colored diamonds as well. We can only speculate as to why we don't really find that many older cut fancy colored diamonds.

One likely explanation is the same fate as higher white, more valuable stones.

Recut.

These branded Diamonds by Lauren Cushions are unique, to the best of our knowledge. The first modern diamonds, cut in antique style- specifically to showcase the natural light yellow color.

Beautiful.... artful facet design combined with the precision execution. The stones are gorgeous.  All are laser inscribed.

Story of the Double Decker

This diamond design was modeled after one of the first massive yellow diamonds to be cut. The cutter was the distinguished gemologist George F Kunz. The stone was cut in 1878.

The facet pattern on the right below plots the stone in the photo above

facet pattern from Max Bauer's 1904 book Precious Stones

I took that pattern and modified it to reflect the pattern on our modern interpretation of the "double decker"

One immediately noticeable difference is the depth- the modern stone is not as deep as the older style- which is quite deep by modern standards. The result is that the modern stones have a nice size to weight ratio- they look big for their weight.

The other main difference is the smaller facets on the bottom of the older style- this gives the modern versions a "chunkier" feel.

In the photo above I've outlined the line of facets which encircles diamond diamond above the girdle ( widest point)- creating the "double-decker"

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