Clarity Enhanced Diamonds Pros and Cons List

Generally, people know diamonds to be a kind of mineral that is basically made up of organized carbon of a very high level. It is also common knowledge that it is the hardest mineral on earth that is why it is used quite a lot for industrial purposes. If you touch a diamond by hand, you could feel the coolness of the stone. It is actually known to conduct heat five times faster than copper; this is another reason why it is used a lot for scientific evaluation. It is used in communications to pass signals, in medicine in the form of scalpels and blades because it gives a very precise cut and the more obvious use, as jewelry that can fashioned into quite a number of designs. Apart from its hardness and thus durability; there is another physical property of the diamond that endears it to its lovers world-wide, which is its ability to break up light into beautiful component colored rays, known technically as the dispersion of light. These beautifully perfected diamonds come with their own list of benefits and drawbacks. The following list of pros and cons of clarity enhanced diamonds are aimed at providing you with a wider understanding to these most beloved gemstones.

List of Pros of Clarity Enhanced Diamonds

1. Due to the fact that clarity enhanced diamonds are not really appreciated they tend to cost less than what is usually obtainable for an untreated diamond. For those looking to start a business in jewelry, and plan to have a few diamonds in stock as well but do not have money for untreated ones, clarity enhanced diamonds are usually the way to go. If you are on a budget, it is definitely a safe bet as you will get the real thing for quite less.

2. Due to less value placed on clarity enhanced diamonds, you can get bigger size for your money. So if size were to be a factor in the decision making, then you could be upgraded by at least 2 carat sizes as against a treated diamond.

3. To the untrained eye, the improvement is not obvious even some appraisers fail to notice it sometimes as the ones certified by GIA/EGL as diamonds of “comparable” beauty are usually twice more expensive.

4. You do not need to care for it specially, as the act of using something as simple as a toothbrush to clean the surface would do just fine although there are other methods of cleaning you could employ.

List of Cons of Clarity Enhanced Diamonds

1. Clarity enhanced diamonds usually develop cracks later due to the types of treatment they have undergone. Direct heat has also been known to cause some sort of expansion in the stones thereby leading to more cracks.

2. The fracture filling form of clarity enhancement is not a permanent one because the fracture is actually filled with a substance that’s almost to a diamond so that light can pass through it as it would for the actual diamond. This is how invincibility of the fracture in the gem is done.

3. Some jewelers do not disclose the fact that their diamonds are clarity enhanced so when customers take them to a different jeweler, probably years later to get them cleaned, they are could be subjected to harsh cleaning processes causing some damages to the stone.

4. Treated diamonds cannot be exchanged for another at the jewelers’ unlike untreated ones which can be sold numerous amounts of time if the need arises or exchanged for another as the case maybe. Another reason is that after treatment, it is difficult to tell the original grade of the diamond thereby making appraisal a bit difficult.

5. Perfectionists would not want to own a treated diamond as the treatment process may affect its brilliance and color.

How Clarity Enhanced Diamonds Work

As beautiful as they seem to be, some diamonds require additional enhancements because they feature or have imperfections that are visible to the eye. This singular characteristic is often times looked upon as a flaw by diamond dealers and patrons in general, hence the need for enhancements. These are most commonly done through fracture filling or laser treatments with the former more popular than the latter. There are however, other lesser known methods of diamond treatments as regards to clarity.

Fracture filling is a type of treatment given to a diamond where a substance that has the same properties of a diamond, that is a bit akin to glass is used to fill in the cracks in the diamond that are visible to the eye. The material allows light to pass through it a way that a diamond would so that the imperfections or cracks can be hidden and rendered invisible. After this process has been done, the fractures on the stone can only be identified by a trained gemologist using special magnification tools. Laser treatment on the other hand, is a process where a hot laser beam is used to bore a small hole into the interior part of the diamond where it burns away the inclusions or imperfections in the stone. This form of diamond clarity enhancement is more permanent than fracture filled treatments and are usually certified.

Some people are of the opinion that the thought of a clarity enhanced diamond is simply not acceptable as these mares the perfection of the diamond, thus rendering it impure. Generally there is not much difference between a treated diamond and un-treated one, the only difference being that the treated diamond -possesses a more sparkling quality that the un-treated one. Though in industrial usage the untreated ones are always preferred as “sparkle’ is not a quality that is most sought after here.

There are several pros and cons to a selecting a clarity enhanced diamond. This all depends on funds available, usage, style and preference.