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Clarity Enhanced Diamonds Pros and Cons:
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Value for Money
Clarity enhanced diamonds are an excellent way to purchase (in a discount price) a larger diamond of higher color, clarity and carat weight, for a lower price. The diamond is still a real, naturally mined diamond from the ground that has been enhanced to improve its sparkle and brilliance.
Improved Clarity
The clarity enhancement will effectively make a lower clarity diamond and make it more beautiful, so if a diamond was visibly included (imperfect) and after the treatment, the diamond will look flawless to the naked eye.
Real Natural Diamonds
Unlike other options that are lower in price such as cubic zirconia, synthetic diamonds and Swarovski crystals, clarity enhanced diamonds are real natural diamonds.
The main drawback when considering clarity enhanced diamonds is that the enhancement can be damaged if exposed to extreme heat or corrosive materials. Lower quality, bromide based enhancements may also fade over time.
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Not 100% Natural
Although they are real, natural diamonds, the fact that the clarity has been manually improved can be a mind sore. This is a psychological disadvantage of CE diamonds rather than a physical one.
Enhancement is reversible
As mentioned above, it is very important to purchase a clarity enhanced diamond from a vendor that will guarantee the quality of the treatment over time and will re-enhance the diamond free of charge if anything happens. The fact that the enhancement can be reversed can also be considered an advantage as at any point, the treatment can be removed and the diamond will be completely natural. This is not recommended as the diamond will certainly be more beautiful with the enhancement.
Difficult to know the original grading
The clarity enhancement can be so effective in many cases that it can be very hard to tell what the original clarity grading of the diamond was originally. For this reason, the GIA does not grade CE diamonds. Furthermore, when setting a CE diamond, extra care needs to be made so as not to damage the stone as it is very difficult to locate its imperfections.
What Are Clarity Enhanced Diamonds?
There are two types of procedures that will improve the clarity of a diamond. The first is called laser drilling and the second is called fracture filling (more commonly known as clarity enhancement). Both are considered clarity enhanced diamonds.
All diamonds besides flawless diamonds will have internal characteristics commonly known as inclusions, including black carbon spots, feathers, clouds, bubbles and more.
Laser drilling creates a minute hole in the diamond, allowing for black carbon spots to be cleaned out. This type of enhancement is permanent, which is both an advantage and disadvantage.
On the one hand, the tiny holes, although not visible to the naked eye, will always be in the diamond. On the other hand, the diamond will be clearer for good.
Fracture filling, despite its name, does not mean that the diamond is broken or cracked, rather that the original inclusions are coated with a clear substance to make them invisible to the naked eye.
Diamonds that are filled are cleaned and boiled to remove any dirt and other imperfections, and then they are filled with a microscopic amount of clear material that cloaks the feathers. There are two types of filling used for clarity enhancement.
One using bromide and the other using a silicone based material. The former is the lower quality treatment and can discolor or fade over time. The higher quality treatment can last a lifetime so long as it isn’t exposed to extreme heat (over 1500 degrees) or acid.
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Why buy Clarity Enhanced Diamonds?
This decision should be your own, based on the information you have at hand. Many companies will offer both enhanced and non-enhanced diamonds, with non-enhanced diamonds of course being more expensive.
The big difference in the price starts with 3/4 carat diamonds and is more significant with 1 carat diamonds and above, where prices can be anything from 2 times the price and more for the same grade (or “look”).
Note that CE diamonds are graded after the enhancement, so it is sometimes difficult to see what the original grading will have been. With smaller diamonds, from 1/4 to 1/2 carat weight, the prices are closer with the mid and lower ranges and differ more with the high quality ranges.
One of the most common questions about clarity enhanced diamonds is about their value. Clarity enhanced diamonds are worth no less, and usually more, than the 100% natural diamond that its original grading represents.
Therefore, a natural SI2 diamond that was clarity enhanced to SI1 will still be worth the same as the SI2 diamond, or more.
If at any time you decide you would like a 100% natural diamond, the clarity enhancement may be removed and the diamond will be untreated.
The main difference is not in the value of clarity enhanced diamonds, rather that they are the same natural diamonds, of the same value, but they look more beautiful, clearer and more sparkling.
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Making the decision on whether to buy online a clarity enhanced diamond should be made with the knowledge of the pros and cons of both options.
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