What Makes a Diamond Perform Beyond the Certificate The Variables No Report Measures, and How a Trained Eye Reads Them

Here is the sentence this entire house was built on: the certificate describes a diamond; it does not…

Why Most Online Diamond Listings Are Misleading — and How a Professional Buys Through Them Anyway

Let us start with a disclosure, because this memo would be dishonest without it: Raremonds is listed on…

Green Diamonds: Sourcing the Right Stone, at the Right Price, in the Trade's Most Deceptive Colour

Green is the rarest of the primary fancy colours and, by some distance, the hardest to buy well.…

Blue Diamonds: Sourcing, Grading and Pricing the Rarest Stone in the Trade

Blue is the most demanding category in the natural coloured diamond business, and almost none of what makes…

Pink Diamonds: The Most Coveted Colour in the Market — and Why You Should Never Buy One on the Certificate Alone

Of all the natural coloured diamonds we handle at Raremonds, pink generates the most enquiries and, by some…

Fancy Yellow Diamonds: Pricing, Grading & What Makes One Valuable

Two diamonds graded Fancy Intense Yellow, same carat, same clarity, can sit ten or twenty percent apart in…

Non-Russian Diamonds What EU & US Buyers Need to Know

A shipment held at customs because the paperwork didn’t anticipate this year’s requirement is not a hypothetical. It…

How to Source Matched Diamond Pairs for Earrings and High Jewellery

Two stones with identical certificates can sit side by side in a diamond pairs of earrings and look…