Tips for Buying Fine Jewelry

A bench jeweler is responsible for repairs on customer jewelry. They are trained gem, but a little 'out of date pricing, etc.

First, consider the term "chips". People often talk about small diamond chips as if they are cut, in fact, most diamonds. Modern production methods almost require fairly consistent diamond shapes for quick stone setting and fries are not the ticket for this!

Diamond Channel-Set

Bench jewelers routinely stones very small, perhaps 1 / 2 pointup. A diamond of 1 / 2 point is 0.005 carats. In comparison, it would be a pair of earrings with a total weight of 80 points to 40 points for each earring. When you use half the hands would be that 80 diamond earrings are! Yes, even the cut 1 / 2 point is not stones, chips. More than likely, you want earrings stones of 1 point or 2 points to use. This would mean 40 or 20 stones per earring.

Pave diamonds, or with many stones, as in many diamond earringgrades are divided.

The cut is obviously not as critical as the color and clarity. You've probably seen with a white diamond watch? These stones have cut no reflection from within the stone and sparkle on the surface only faces on the stones. These stones have a very pure, very low. Then again, can the sparkle of diamond stones have a lot of light reflected from the stones with the facets (cut edges) on the back reflects the light back to yourEye.

This is what you want. Decent clarity is needed and suggest that the stone SI-I1 class. In small stones, I1 is generally good and dark spots are not really seen. Still looking for good return of light within the diamond. Some earrings have a better clarity of the stones and the earrings seem something brilliant.

Ask if they have an idea of ​​the clarity of the diamond.

The color is important. Often gain clarity and use stone relatively free of brown spots,Manufacturers use a lower grade stone color. This means that the earrings were probably chosen fairly clean stones of a brown or yellowish. First, you do not see this color, but it is obvious if the diamonds come from a higher class (the so-called "white" or not colored).

If the stones have a slight tinge of brown or yellow, you are looking for a better grade. Ask if the stones of good color and light color. Go for better color, no shades of brown or yellow. Verythis is in your eye. Also, if you lose a stone, are made of colored stones to match more difficult for a replacement!

The individual stones are cut to another round total from above. Still the number of facets is the same. Full-cut stones have more luster and life to your eyes. Stones of 1 point or more are better in appearance to the full cut. Ask if the stones single cut or full cut stones.

Quality for earrings like you describe is open from very good to very poor. BankJewelers often change in size for the national department stores. Most of the jewelry was tagged with a higher price and a price of "sale" of about 50%. The discount of 50% is what the jewelry was worth it. But I would like each for my wife? No!

Why? So many of sparkling jewels has been done very badly. Bench jewelers jewelry prior to any welding clean as for the design of a ring can be made and lost at least one of the three rings from the stones of memory in the ultrasoundbefore doing anything! The grace of the jewelry was due to poor workmanship. Enforcement is difficult to judge if they are not in the business. Ask how the stones are made of metal. If they say, "channel" to ask them to look through magnification.

A real channel along the sides of the channel to the edge of the stone. A false channel is a channel for the stones, the stones are made ​​of metal held in place by small pieces (a smallPick of metal) from the channel walls pushed down inside, a small chip of metal on each side of the stone. This is the attitude of "pick" and is very common in lower quality jewelry. Do not get caught with stones or lost stones.

Ask the clerk for items that are deemed to be clean. Ask if they have an ultrasound device and you have cleaned the earrings for a few minutes in the car like that. This will remove fingerprints and having the brightness and color of realbetter diamond. Even when the stones do not set that there is a possibility, some are in the vacuum cleaner! The test is not foolproof, but a good start. Feel free to ask did not clean the jewelry in an ultrasonic bath before taking out your check book or plastic card!

Ask if the stones are secure and provide, if they had problems with lost stones from that line of jewelry. This is a reasonable question. Jewellery is often not with many small stones into the crowdfirst place. Better to go in terms of quality for life without any problems.

In small or large stones, yellow gold holds stones, just like white gold. Platinum is perhaps their best performance. If you do not want the platinum get monotonous after a while ', go with white gold since white is your choice. What makes the yellow and white different hardness. In general, the white gold is harder than yellow and can bring a little 'better in time. If we in yellow gold, we allow more thickness onthe settings for your account.

White gold has problems if you are not careful. Any chlorine in swimming pools and hot tubs is devastating for the gold whiter. That's because most white gold is nickel, to search for white gold.

The effect is a weakening of the white gold make up the recipe. Exposure to chlorine can sometimes cause more force or fall into a pool made of white gold prongs literally. White gold holds stones well, but avoid the chlorine!Unless you want platinum earrings, white gold is just fine. This last and the last platinum and keep seem to keep. Just keep it clean and chlorine!

Bottom line, deal with a company that is one of the first jewelry store, not a department within another. (There are exceptions. Ask if your jewelry and bank service are the jeweler "in house".) If your company has a good reputation, which is one to try first.

Tips for Buying Fine Jewelry