The Four Cs Made Yours
When dealing with diamonds, you will often hear the mention of the 4Cs, which offer a useful starting point for understanding its different qualities. JMA Jewelry takes a step beyond the 4Cs to consider your preferences and to optimize value, for a diamond that fits you perfectly. All of your diamonds are distinctly JMA in quality and beauty.
Your diamond is distinctly you in the way you wear it.
Cut
The Cut refers to the way a diamond’s facets interact with light. It examines the proportions, angles, symmetry, and make of a diamond, all of which determine the degree of a diamond’s radiance.
The Quick Guide to Sparkle:
Too Deep
Light escapes through the sides and stone may appear dull.
Too Shallow
Light escapes at the bottom and stone may appear dark.
Perfect Proportion
Light reflects wholly and stone sparkles intensely.
Perfect Symmetry
Facets are even in shape, outline and alignment directs light seamlessly and creates brilliance.
Clarity
Think of Clarity as your diamond’s fingerprint — with each stone unique in its own internal characteristics called ‘inclusions’ and external characteristics called ‘blemishes’. Clarity measures these characteristics, and how they affect the appearance of the stone, on GIA’s grading scale of Flawless to Included. At JMA Jewelry, we specialize in finding eye-clean diamonds.
Color
Color refers to the presence or absence of a natural tint in white diamonds. We follow GIA’s color grading scale of D to Z, with each grade representing the stone’s depth of color. Most white diamonds used in jewelry are near colorless, with a slight yellow or brown tint — and, the closer the stone is to being colorless, the higher its value is.
Carat
The most objective of The 4Cs, the Carat relies on scales and weight. The Carat measures the diamond’s weight, not it’s size. A bigger carat does not always mean a bigger stone. Consider the Carat together with the Cut, and look at how the weight is distributed to maximize every point.
