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The Importance of Beauty
Throughout the ages, the diamond’s dance of light has captured our fascination. This beauty does not happen by chance but is clearly determined by the design and craft of the diamond’s cut. Compare the appearance of a raw diamond, a poorly polished diamond, and a well-cut one, and you’ll see the light.
The beauty of a diamond depends on how it sets light free. The degree of brilliance/brightness (white light), fire (color light), and sparkle that diamonds radiate determines a diamond’s light performance. The patterns of returned light, the contrast of reflecting facets, the display of rainbow colors, and the arrangement of sparkles has a profound impact on a diamond’s beauty. These elements are the main parts of a diamond’s aesthetic signature known as light flow architecture.
Today, major gemological institutions are putting together supplemental information on light performance, assessing a diamond’s cut quality as a function of its ability to produce brilliance, fire, and scintillation. Some labs will provide additional information on a diamond’s light return geometry, contrast brilliance, light leakage, and optical symmetry information. All of these details fall under a new category known as beauty factors. Their inclusion in diamond grading reports reflects how much consumers value the diamond’s beauty.
The addition of beauty factors bodes well for consumers and for the future of the diamond industry. Rather than getting lost in the numbers, or paying for attributes that are not needed, consumers will have a far greater ability to obtain the beautiful diamonds they really want. We believe those labs that rely on a theoretical ray tracing model to predict a diamond’s light performance, as opposed to using direct light measurement technologies, will provide generalized results with limited value to the end user.
Diamond purchasers should know precisely the performance results of the diamond they are considering, rather than a generalized result for all diamonds with similar proportions. Two diamonds with different sets of inclusions will produce different performance results even if they have the same general proportions. Consumers need to know to what degree white light, color light, and sparkles are being returned as opposed to the general light factor. We believe that accurate direct light measurement results are far more reliable and beneficial to consumers. With metrics that are focused squarely on beauty, we can expect to see the emergence of diamonds with superior optics, brilliance-and-beauty.
The Solasfera is the perfect example of this advanced diamond cut design.
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