Posts Tagged ‘blue diamonds’

How Rare?

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

In our first twenty Eight years of designing diamond rings, we had only owned very a few colored diamonds, two of which were certificated as natural. Now that treated stones are available, we intend to make full use of their natural beauty in our rings. Even enhance (treated) blue diamonds are not easy to find, but our stock selection will always be very extensive we will upload the items on our website with new designs soon. Natural blue diamonds remain so rare, that we don’t bother trying to find any! Any comments we make about blue diamonds will relate to treated ones unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.

Blue Diamonds

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

Natural blue diamonds are so rare that most jewelers have never seen one, and will never own one. In recent years, methods of producing intensely colored diamonds, including fancy blue, have been developed. We believe that the process probably recreates the conditions which existed millions of years ago to produce natural fancy colored stones. The treatment can only work with a small minority of diamonds, and involves irradiating them causing the color change, usually followed by heat treatment to stabilize the color. The blue diamonds we currently have available are enhanced or treated. If this fact puts you off owning one, then please stop to consider that every diamond has been enhanced by faceting, and most colored gemstones are heat treated to enhance their color. We will add a page devoted to gemstone treatments when we have more time.


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