A
stone representing the best of
gemstone and jewelry craftsmanship, this
radiant-cut beauty is of fancy
pink color and weighs an impressive 21.06
carats. Its
clarity is graded
VS1.
The
radiant cut combines a
brilliant-cut bottom with an
emerald-cut top, which brings out some of the best
brilliance as well as
color in
stones shaped this way. Mouawad Pink is the smallest in the Mouawad collection but is worth at least 12 million dollars on today’s market, which is a lot higher than the price of the average 22-
carat diamond ring.
This
diamond is graded Type IIa based on the inclusions it carries, on grounds of
being free of nitrogen. This places it in a category accounting to 1-2% of the naturally occurring
diamonds in the world. Type IIa
stones usually have perfect crystal
shape, making them absolutely colorless. Some do exist which carry plastic distortion in the crystal, and consequent
color emanating from the
stone. These are the ones with fancy
colors such as
pink,
purple,
red, and brown. The deformed parts take in different wavelengths of the incident visible light.