Elongated radiant cut diamond ring
Better yet, even though this diamond shape won’t have the largest face-up area, its intense sparkle will make it appear bigger! The Downsides With a well-cut round diamond, the brilliance and dispersion will impress in any engagement ring. Perfect for classic looks, the round brilliant diamond cut has been carefully engineered to produce the most sparkle.
Round-Cut Diamonds Find this Ring at James AllenRound diamond are timeless and the perfect fit for many styles. Even square radiant, cushion, princess, and asscher cuts can appear larger than a round because their corner-to-corner length is larger than a round’s diameter. Rectangular cushion, radiant, and princess cuts can have the same effect. Oval, pear, emerald, and marquise cuts can appear larger because of their elongated shapes. It’s no secret that some fancy-shape diamonds appear larger than rounds.
For a diamond budget of about $7,000, what size (G color, VS2) diamond could you get? The round diamond would be about 1.0 ct, but you could get a fancy shape closer to 1.2 ct, or maybe even larger! How Diamond Shapes Affect Face-Up Size This means that the discount for fancy diamond cuts at the 1.0-ct mark is larger.
While other shapes rise in value more steadily from 0.7 to 1.2 ct, round diamonds jump at 1.0 ct and have a less steep increase in pricing to 1.2 ct. This graph shows another interesting feature of diamond pricing: the bump in price for rounds at the 1.0-ct mark. The most expensive and least expensive fancy cuts change based on the carat weight that you’re looking for! Round shape diamonds have the highest prices for all carat sizes. There’s no overarching pattern to the discount, however. Fancy-cut diamonds have prices 10-43% lower than rounds! This is in part because we only considered “Excellent” cuts, while the fancy shape prices average over the entire range of cut quality. Round diamonds command premium pricing at all sizes. Diamond price chart with the lowest price for each carat category shown in bold. Round diamond averages are based on “Excellent” cut diamonds. For each size, we collected average prices for each diamond shape for G color, VS2 diamonds from Blue Nile’s inventory. These charges generally are 10-20% of the sale.To look at this, we chose a few benchmark carat sizes: 0.5, 0.7, 1.0, 1.2, 1.5, and 2.0 carats.