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Colored Diamonds - Fancy Colors

The popular conception of a diamond is a white or colorless stone. We think of a precious stone with many facets and a wonderful "fire" so transparent and colorless as pure water.

But historical records clearly show that in the times of the Romans colored diamonds were collected. Even the Indian Moghuls, Louis XIV of France, the Russian czar and the English monarch appreciated the peculiar colored gems.

Diamonds can be found practically in a rainbow of colors: yellow, brown, orange, pink, red, green, blue and violet. Those whose saturation is strong enough, are called "colored diamonds" or simply called "Fancies".

Each colored diamond is truly a rare gem. Although meaningful statistics are missing, experts believe that the ratio of colored amounts to nearly colorless diamond 1:10.000. That explains why these remarkable gems were centuries in the hands of rulers and kings. Even this explanation helps to understand why the general public had virtually no knowledge of you.

Nowadays, these colored diamonds begin to come back into fashion. They open their own store, after they have been for many years regarded as "curiosities". One can say that the era of colored diamonds began in October 1987 when a red diamond of 0.95 ct. was sold at auction in New York for U.S. $ 1 million. He was bought by a Swiss dealer for the Sultan of Brunei, who owns one of the largest collections of colored diamonds.

Both the trade and the public were very surprised and found that colored diamonds are not just a freak of nature, but also can be very valuable. The public interest in such stones grew, and more and more colored diamonds were sent to Expertisieren to gemological institutes. Slowly developed a better understanding of color diamonds.

The growing interest in color diamonds has so far peaked yet comfortable. A sign of the growing interest in colored diamonds is the fact that the world's largest cut diamond is not a colorless, but a yellow. It is the "Golden Jubilee", which was discovered in 1995. He meets with his 545.67 ct. the perfectly colorless Cullinan I (430.2 ct.).