{"id":108,"date":"2008-04-28T16:25:51","date_gmt":"2008-04-28T07:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diamondsandopals.com\/blog\/making-the-case-for-our-international-selection\/"},"modified":"2018-08-30T14:22:16","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T06:22:16","slug":"making-the-case-for-our-international-selection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/making-the-case-for-our-international-selection\/","title":{"rendered":"Making The Case For Our International Selection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past few months, our international selection has seen a huge increase in popularity. For those who don&#8217;t know, our International Selection are diamonds sold through manufacturers, cutters and wholesalers overseas, with us acting as brokers.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Whilst this method of buying breaks from the traditional method of going into a shop, picking a ring or a loose diamond, there are many advantages of buying this way, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The cheapest possible price due to the fact that we have no cost in keeping stock. Our margins on our International Selection stones may be as low as 10% &#8211; a far cry from the old days when jewellers made margins of 100% and over.<\/li>\n<li>Better selection to choose from. Almost any possible carat\/colour\/clarity\/cut combination can be bought from our International Selection, however, that&#8217;s not to say there are situations where we simply can not find the exact combination, especially in oversized and off-sized stones (eg 80 points or 1.4-1.49ct).<\/li>\n<li>We can get quite a bit of information on the diamond prior to importing it, including proportion information (from which we can get predicted Ideal-Scope and ASET images) and sometimes even microscopic photos.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Why International?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Because Australia is such a small market for diamonds, there is usually very little in terms of high quality (in terms of light performance) diamonds available. Whilst some customers may want to view, or &#8220;pick and choose&#8221; from a number of diamonds, buying diamonds on the international market produces a much better end result than choosing from a number of not-so-well cut diamonds on the local market.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Success Stories<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Whilst there are plenty of examples, these are two really great ones.<\/p>\n<p>The first involves a 2ct D\/VS2 Asscher cut diamond. This stone (which we actually <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=f15TtVvFd8w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">video taped<\/a>) was an ideal cut, but had strong blue fluorescence. After getting Sarin (proportion) information, running that through DiamCalc and confirming the stone wasn&#8217;t milky or hazy, the stone was sent to us and it turned out to be a beauty! After a couple of weeks, it was set into a Tiffany Lucida type setting, as shown below.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Lucida with Asscher Cut\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/images\/lucida-asscher.jpg\" alt=\"Lucida with Asscher Cut\" width=\"375\" height=\"267\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">All up, the ring cost just over $18,000 &#8211; a price unheard of, even to us.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The second involves three diamonds for a three-stone ring. The centre diamond was 1.50ct, and the two side stones, just under 1ct, all were GIA triple excellent and scored an AGS 0 using our performance grading software. However, they were all SI2&#8217;s. Whilst the two side stones were easy enough to pick out, we knew that an eye clean 1.5ct, ideal cut SI2 would be difficult. However, after a week or two, we finally found the perfect stone with twinning wisps (as you can see in the picture) which was totally eye clean.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"3 Stones\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/images\/3stone.jpg\" alt=\"3 Stones\" width=\"350\" height=\"179\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past few months, our international selection has seen a huge increase in popularity. For those who don&#8217;t know, our International Selection are diamonds sold through manufacturers, cutters and wholesalers overseas, with us acting as brokers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-taking-care-of-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299,"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions\/299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}