Choosing the Right Coloured Diamonds for Fine Jewellery
Diamond education is imperative before you begin to purchase a fine jewellery piece. Many times consumers go to a store location such as fine jewellery London stores and have the help of staff on hand. We, at Hancocks Jewellers want to make sure you know everything you need to know before stepping into our fine jewellery Manchester store. The cost of a diamond is determined by colour, clarity, cut, and carat. The best way to get a gem of the best calibre is to understand your choices in the market.
A typical diamond that is most rare is considered the colourless white diamond. However, for those who don’t know there are some diamonds even rarer. Coloured diamonds can be even rarer than the colourless diamond. For example blue diamonds are the rarest, while pink is usually not very special. The diamonds with colour are called Fancy Colour Diamonds.
Hancocks Jewellers specialise in white diamond jewellery, but a few of our pieces will have the coloured diamonds. A natural colour diamond such as the blue diamond will be very expensive. In fact about 1 out of 10,000 diamonds is a fancy colour diamond. The most popular fancy colour diamond is yellow. However, you do have pink, green, blue, red and orange colours which tend to be even more expensive. If the diamond is brilliantly red or orange you can expect the price to be extremely high. A sale of an intense red diamond at 1 carat could go for as much as 700,000 pounds or more.
The measurement of the coloured diamonds is done differently than the colourless diamond. The scale is actually based on the intensity of the colour. You may have faint, fancy light, fancy deep, and fancy dark just to name a few. Hancocks Jewellers tends to only search for the fancy coloured diamonds on request and don’t usually stock many or any at all.
