Credit where it's due - Tony

Meeshoo said:

Imagine this - what do you guys think: ...........

Don opens show with big 6ct. Explains how natural diamonds get their colour (can be fascinating). Perhaps discusses famous diamonds. Then explains about the price of naturals. Very expensive etc etc. Just an indication. Then talks about 6ct, explains how it's irradiated. What's irradiation? Is it safe? (yes), does it fade (no), what's the difference between coating and irradiation (coating = yuck) etc., then discusses how irradiation means Rocks and Co can bring bigger than normal coloured diamonds at affordable (debatable with their prices at the mo) prices.

This would be really interesting when discussing the green diamond (which was, IMVHO the most beautiful of them all) because it's soooo difficult to detect irradiated greens from naturals - can be done - but process is the same for both.

An explanation of grading for white diamonds i.e. VS, VVS, IF, SI (not that order of course) because some people don't know. The interpretation of each of these varies depending which channel you watch.

Why also didn't they show the EGL certs???????? That seems amazing to me!

Now then, how interesting would that be? Wouldn't it be more honest? I think it would encourage people to buy as well.

What I did like is that they didn't spend 15 days on one item!

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During one of my hissy fits, after watching the hour of coloured diamonds last week, I wrote the above because I felt the presentation of the coloured diamonds was misleading in that it didn't touch on information that a buyer, spending huge amounts of cash, should be told - most importantly, that the diamonds were irradiated.

So last night I caught about 30 minutes of the coloured diamond hour and Tony DID all of the above that I've highlighted! It was informative and well presented. :up2: A bit more time could have been spent on the EGL Certificates instead of a quick flash across the screen as most people probably haven't seen these before and if you're spending big bucks you'd want to see the report wouldn't you? (Or maybe that's just me)!

I'd like to just make a few more comments if I may:

(1) Tony described the yellow diamond as "canary". This is NOT a recognised term used to describe a coloured diamond. It is a descriptor and widely misused and scorned on by coloured diamond vendors. Words used to describe coloured diamonds (by the GIA and normally adopted elsewhere) are faint, fancy, light, deep, dark, intense, vivid etc (ie the tone/hue and saturation) together with a colour such as yellow, blue, green, grey etc. I'm assuming that EGL use the same terminology on their Certs? I've not got one as all mine are GIA(!). Anyway, on the GIA reports there is a graph that shows how coloured diamonds are graded for colour and the range. IF the same terminology is used on the EGL reports then this would be great information to know/understand. It may not be applied to irradiated diamonds on the EGL reports but I think it probably is. Perhaps it's too technical and this is just the anorak in me but if I was spending the same amount of money as I could buy a car for, I'd rather have too much than too little information.

(2) Tony said 99.999% of diamonds available are irradiated. I would seriously question this statement. If that's the case then I own a number of the .001% diamonds which can't be right! There are also a number of companies that specialise only in natural coloured diamonds. As I own a collection of natural coloured diamonds, I think others on the forum do too. This makes those statistics very difficult to believe. It's also misleading because it makes you think you can't buy natural coloured diamonds and if you can, they're out of most people's budgets - also not true.

(3) Lastly - please Tony - smile!!! I'm sure you can do it. C'mon, drop the grumpy face and flash your teeth! :clapping:

Great post Meesh, and it would appear that someone at R&C could be observing these threads and taking a small amount of notice. R&C must be given some praise for this. Just picking up on a point in your post...I know that if i personally was spending a large amount of cash on any "higher end" piece of jewellery, and if it was certified, i most definately would want to see the certificate before i commited myself.