| Wholesale diamond jewelry is a value-added | | | | both of which may be natural - created in the |
| product in which loose diamonds have been | | | | earth as a result of geologic processes - or |
| placed into a one-of-a-kind gold and silver | | | | artificial, created under laboratory |
| setting, such as a ring, necklace, or tiara. | | | | conditions. Furthermore, diamond may be of |
| Typically, jewelry wholesalers do not sell to | | | | "gem quality," which is used in wholesale |
| the general public, simply because of the | | | | diamond jewelry, or "industrial quality," for |
| nature of the wholesale business, which | | | | use in cutting machinery. |
| focuses on large quantities. Most people | | | | |
| cannot afford, or have little inclination to | | | | In either case, the key is preternatural |
| acquire large amounts of certified loose | | | | amounts of heat and pressure. When carbon is |
| diamonds unless they are one of the | | | | subjected to pressures of 45 - 60 millibars |
| following: | | | | (45,000 - 60,000 times normal air pressure at |
| | | | sea level) and heat of at least 2300 degrees |
| 1. Professional Jeweler/Craftsman: These are | | | | F (800 degrees hotter than the melting point |
| the skilled artisans who create attractive | | | | of structural steel), its molecular structure |
| settings from gold and silver in which loose | | | | changes from a flat, hexagonal pattern to a |
| diamonds are set. When working with natural | | | | box-like one. It is this particular structure |
| stones. They may be independent retailers | | | | that gives diamond its hardness as well as |
| themselves, or provide products for jewelry | | | | the octagonal shape of the rough stones. |
| retail chains. | | | | |
| | | | Cutting The Stone |
| 2. Investors: While this should seem self | | | | |
| explanatory, it is worth pointing out that | | | | The value of wholesale diamond jewelry is |
| unlike gold and silver, diamonds are not | | | | dependent on the cut, which is something that |
| traded or subject to the same kind of | | | | jewelry wholesalers look at closely. Until |
| speculation as most typical commodities. | | | | modern times, diamond cutting in preparation |
| Those who collect certified loose diamonds | | | | for the creation of wholesale diamond jewelry |
| usually have different reasons for doing so. | | | | could be accomplished only with diamond, due |
| | | | to that substance's hardness. Not only that, |
| 3. Jewelry Retail Dealers: If such a store or | | | | but the process was uncertain and involved an |
| company has its own in-house jewelers (most | | | | extreme amount of nerve-wracking, painstaking |
| do), they are virtually always on the lookout | | | | precision. |
| for the best deals on certified loose | | | | |
| diamonds that have been analyzed and | | | | Today however, diamond that is used in |
| appraised from weight, color and cut. If not, | | | | wholesale diamond jewelry is cut with lasers, |
| they will purchase finished, wholesale | | | | using computer-aided design. Nonetheless, it |
| diamond jewelry for resale to the general | | | | is still a precision process that requires |
| public. | | | | not only creative vision, but precision |
| | | | mathematical calculations as well. It is why |
| How Diamonds Are Made | | | | the creation of wholesale diamond jewelry is |
| | | | as much science as it is art. |
| There are actually two kinds of diamonds, | | | | |