How Does A. Fishman & Son Grade Diamond Cut?
A. Fishman & Son uses cut grades provided by GIA whenever these are available. Many diamonds graded by the GIA prior to January 1st, 2006 do not have such grading. If a cut grade is not provided by the GIA, A. Fishman & Son has evaluated the overall beauty of the diamond and assigned it a Cut Grade based on both a proportion system that uses measurements of depth and table, and an actual visual analysis of the diamond to determine the amount of brilliance in a particular diamonds cut and how Pretty it is. Unlike sites like BlueNile, which can only use a system of statistics to grade the cut of diamonds which they list (but don’t own), because they don’t have the physical diamond available on hand to look at, A. Fishman & Son owns its diamonds and only purchases diamonds which are pretty and which we can wholeheartedly recommend to you. That is why we can give you a physical evaluation of our diamonds. For example, this is BlueNile’s cut grading system for Round diamonds. We think it is
