Each stone reveals light through its own hue, depth, and emotion. Unlike colorless diamonds, the value of a color diamond lies in the tone and saturation (intensity) of color, a true expression of light in its most artistic form.
Color Grades and Value Scale
From Fancy Light to Fancy Vivid, these grades define the primary value range of fancy color diamonds - Fancy Light, Fancy, Fancy Intense, Fancy Dark, Fancy Deep, and the most vivid and highly prized Fancy Vivid. The higher the grade, the richer and more radiant the color, enhancing both its visual impact and its collectible value.
Among them, Fancy Red stands apart as the rarest of all, existing in only one intensity level due to its exceptionally scarce formation conditions.
Experience the Beauty in Person
The true beauty of a fancy color diamond is best revealed during an actual viewing.
Images on screens or prints are inevitably affected by light and medium, and can never capture its genuine brilliance. Only under natural light and in person can a color diamond display its authentic and irreplaceable radiance.
Tones and Saturation
The charm of fancy color diamonds lies in how a single color can display endless variations.
Take yellow diamonds as an example - subtle shifts in tone and saturation create completely different impressions, from cooler or warmer yellows to orange-yellow and yellow-orange hues. This remarkable range of color layers is what makes fancy color diamonds so captivating.
Natural, Treated, and Lab Colored Diamonds
Fancy diamond colors may be natural, enhanced, or lab-created, with full disclosure of their origin and any color treatment in the gemological certificate.
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Natural fancy color diamonds — renowned for their naturally formed hues and rarity, valued for their collectability.
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Color-enhanced natural diamonds — natural diamonds refined through advanced treatments to adjust or intensify color, generally valued lower than untreated stones.
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Lab-grown colored diamonds — created and colored under controlled laboratory conditions, offering stable hues and a more accessible price structure.
