The Diamond
Here's how this story unfolds- it
starts with the unfolding of a piece of paper, about 8 months ago.......
This is part of the label. I understood
that "2.25 PRI" meant a 2.25carat princess cut diamond.
Now, if it had said "FLY", I
would naturally assume it was a Fancy Light Yellow.
By that same assumption FLP could only
mean one thing- Fancy Light....PINK????
I've never seen a Fancy Light Pink
Princess Cut over 2carats.
Over the 30 plus years, and probably
hundreds of thousands of stones, I have not seen all that many
Fancy Light Pink anything., much less a 2 carat plus Princess Cut
Fancy Light Pink is quite pink.
Naturally, I quickly opened the paper.
Diamond Color Chart for pink diamonds
I could tell right away, this was not
pink enough to be called a Fancy Light.
I could also tell that it looked like a
well cut princess cut........ and there was definitely something
pink there....
The next thing that happened was that I
fell in love with it.
It's
a great cut for FLASH- incredible sparkle- great size. The cut is
spectacular.
The
SI2 imperfections are in spots that make them very hard to see with
a loupe- a
very very good SI2.
HOW
DO WE FIND SUCH DIAMONDS?
The
first time I was shown this ( and the other 100+ Diamonds) was just to get
my reaction .....I looked at everything as much as I wanted, but nothing
was available to buy just yet- they were figuring out how much the
diamonds were worth. This cutter mainly deals with Colorless, and near
colorless. This was a very unique situation.
About 5 months passed till I was again shown these stones- this time the
diamonds were available, and marked with prices.
I
gasped upon learning that we'd have to offer the 2.25ct Faint Pink
Princess for about $80,000.
I
also declined to buy it.
We
did buy a bunch of the other diamonds, at that time- but not this one.
I
let about 5 months pass till I broached the subject again. This time, we
got extremely lucky- he agreed to very near the price I had in mind. We're
talking almost 50% less. Normally, he would never agree to that kind of
discount off his asking price. Normally I never need to offer less-
because that's how sharp his prices on colorless diamonds are.
So
there you have it.
A
fairly large Natural Faint Pink Diamond at a "reasonable" price
