How to determine the weight of a diamond yourself: advice from jewelers Bashny.Net

A diamond is a very beautiful and most expensive stone. It is appreciated for its luxurious shimmer, beautiful bends of the edges. When buying an accessory with a faceted diamond, you need to look at the visual characteristics of the stone and its mass. Let's talk about carat in more detail, let's see why this indicator is so important, how it will be useful to you when calculating the weight of a stone. You may also be interested in the article of the Gold.ua online store https://gold.ua/jewellery-articles/chto-takoe-karat. In it you will find data on all known methods of calculating mass, a table for assessing the weight by the diameter of the stone.



What is carat and where does it come from
Carat is a common unit of weight used to measure gemstones. It is used to evaluate natural, synthetic materials. The unit began to be actively used at the beginning of the 20th century, but appeared much earlier. In ancient times, there were no exact weights, as now, so there was an urgent need for the existence of a unified system of calculations. The craftsmen used the seeds of the evergreen carob tree as "weights". The seeds are of the same type, have the same size, regardless of the growing conditions of the tree.

In 1907, a carat weight of 200 mg was approved. The karat system is now used all over the world to assess the value of diamonds and mark the purity of gold. In Europe, they simply put metric tests - for example, 585. But there are countries where carats are also used to mark gold.

How to calculate the weight of a diamond without contacting a jeweler

To accurately determine the weight of the stone, the so-called carat scales are used. The measurement results will be as accurate as possible, but there is a minus - the equipment is expensive, only professional craftsmen have it. Jewelers offer an alternative - special diameter and multiplicity tables. You need to measure the diameter of the stone, check the data with the tabulated data - and get the desired result.

Please note that the tabular measurements are quite accurate, but only jewelry scales will show 100% results. By the way, there is such an example - a diamond the size of a pea weighs about one carat. In practice, this often happens.



Look at the product data sheet
When buying jewelry, you need to know exactly their characteristics - they determine the price of products. The cost of two identical diamonds can be very different, as it depends on:

• sizes;
• shade;
• purity;
• perfect cutting.

All these characteristics taken together form the final cost. The seller is obliged to issue you an independent laboratory certificate for the diamond. The document confirms the authenticity of the products, from it it will be possible to find out information about the mass and other important parameters. The certificate will not contain the price of the stone, since the assessment is carried out by independent craftsmen, and the cost is set by the store. But you can understand whether a diamond meets the specified price tag or not, according to the data from the certificate.