Our Information to Champagne Diamond Engagement Rings

When DeBeers launched its legendary slogan ‘A Diamond is Perpetually’ in 1947, the precedent was set; a colorless diamond solitaire was THE image of lifelong love and dedication. Quick-forward 75 years, nevertheless, and an rising variety of {couples} are exploring a technicolor dreamworld past the white diamond commonplace, with coloured gemstone engagement rings hovering in recognition. Specifically, we have seen demand for champagne diamond engagement rings skyrocket in recent times – and we’re not upset about it.

WHAT IS A CHAMPAGNE DIAMOND?

Chris’ bespoke trilogy engagement ring, set with a 0.85ct spherical brilliant-cut Canadamark diamond and two pear-cut champagne diamonds

Doing precisely because it says on the tin, a champagne diamond is a flowery coloured diamond whose pure coloration resembles that of champagne. Though all the time brown and with a noticeable yellow tint, champagne diamonds vary in hue from pale taupe to darker shades of tan and low. When orange shades exist as a substitute of yellow undertones, diamonds on the darker finish of the brown spectrum are also known as cognac diamonds as a substitute.

Champagne diamonds achieve their brown-yellow hues from traces of nitrogen trapped inside the crystal construction throughout diamond formation. The upper the nitrogen content material, the deeper the depth of brown.

ARE CHAMPAGNE DIAMONDS RARE?

You would be forgiven for assuming that champagne diamonds, like different pure fancy coloured diamonds, are a lot rarer and dearer than their colorless counterparts. The truth is, diamonds in brown hues are simpler to come back by than every other pure shades, together with the ‘white’ diamond. Whereas only one% of all mined diamonds are graded as fully colorless, making them virtually as uncommon as diamonds in vivid fancy shades of yellow or pink, for instance, the hint parts that lend themselves to brown hues are quite common.

It is for that reason that brown diamonds have been as soon as deemed ‘flawed’ and undesirable, as per the 4 Cs grading system which values ​​diamonds primarily based on their minimize, color, readability and carat weight. The truth is, brown diamonds have been sometimes thought of solely good for industrial use till the Eighties.

Then, when an abundance of brown diamonds began appearing on the Argyle Mines of Western Australia, lightbulbs have been illuminated above the heads of savvy jewelery business gamers, who drove the ‘rebrand’ of brown diamonds with interesting new nicknames like ‘champagne’ and ‘cognac’.

WHY WE LOVE CHAMPAGNE DIAMONDS

In the present day, the fantastic thing about champagne diamonds is that their availability and traditionally ‘undesirable’ coloration and readability rankings proceed to make them cheaper than ‘colourless’ diamonds, which isn’t solely nice information for jewelery designers like us, however for jewelery customers open to exploring the sorts of choices that supply a bit of extra bang for the buck. Likewise, champagne sapphires are comparatively straightforward to supply and supply an much more inexpensive various to champagne diamonds, significantly for many who want to set their engagement ring with a very massive centerpiece.

Though internally ‘flawed’ by the presence of nitrogen, champagne diamonds, similar to all different diamonds, rating a ten on the Mohs Scale of Hardness, making them extremely resilient to day-to-day put on in an engagement ring.

What’s extra, the impartial earthiness of champagne diamonds makes them surprisingly straightforward to put on, complementary of all steel colours and a variety of pores and skin tones.

And with the custom of ingesting champagne on particular events relationship again to the royal courts of Europe within the early 1700s, the popping of a cork stays inherently related to comfortable moments and new chapters; befitting symbolism for the jewel that can facilitate the popping of that all-important query.

Love, Arabel & Group