What you need to know about pear shaped diamond rings

Pear shaped engagement rings usually consist of a solitaire diamond with the stone cut, as the name suggests in the shape of a teardrop or pear. Sometimes this shape makes up a three stone diamond ring.

Cut is a very important part of pricing a diamond. The brilliance of a diamond is best exhibited when the light that enters the front of the stone is bounced across the facets so that it comes back out of the top of the stone. It was only in the early 2oth century that cutters began to fully understand how to get the best from rough diamond stones.

Pear shaped cuts are best used on those diamonds that are over 20 carats but the average engagement rings are not usually that size.
Unless of course you are someone like Elizabeth Taylor who owns a jewelry collection worth an absolute fortune, her first diamond ring from Richard Burton alone weighed over 33 carats.

But getting back to real life, if you are buying a pear shaped engagement ring or any other style of diamond ring, always aim for a carat even slightly in excess of 1 carats. A stone of 1.10 carats will be worth a lot more than a stone of 1 carat particularly if cut in certain styles. The reason is that diamonds although a very hard stone can show wear at the edges and may need to be repolished. If the stone weighed 1 carat before polishing, it won’t afterwards.

The Gemological Institute of America system of grading diamonds has been internationally accepted. It starts at D for the finest colorless stones and goes right through to Z. Diamonds graded at a Z would be sufficiently yellow to be valued as a colored stone. D, E and F are the colors that you should aspire to when buying pear shaped engagement rings. It is very difficult for the human eye to see the differences in color in stones with these grading but the price differential is considerable.

On the subject of colored diamonds, these can be just as beautiful for an engagement ring as the usual colorless stone. A yellow diamond with a strong daffodil color can be extremely beautiful. Pink and blue diamond’s command very high prices as they are so rare. Some collectors only collect colored diamonds.

The other C you need to consider when buying any pear shaped diamond be it a pendant or diamond engagement ring is clarity. Absence of flaws is measured by examining the stone using 10x magnification. A stone with no visible flaws is graded as an IF; the presence of minute flaws lowers that to a VVS either one or two. More significant flaws result in a grading of VS1 or 2. If you can see the flaws without the magnifying glass the c rating will be reduced to SI or below. You should really try and buy a pear shaped engagement ring with a clarity rating above VS if you can afford it.

What you need to know about pear shaped diamond rings

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