Rough Diamonds Becoming More Popular In Jewelry
Luxist, CA
The Wall Street Journal has an interesting piece on the recent trend in using rough diamonds in jewelry. We first checked this out earlier this year when we saw the jewelry from Diamond In The Rough and De Beers has also used rough diamonds in their Talisman collection. The stones lack the appeal of faceted diamonds, no flashes of color, no sparkles, in fact, as the Journal says, they look downright gravel-like.
The stones have a certain organic appeal and the jewelry stores like them because they are cheaper to produce and offer a chance to use stones which may not have been suitable for cutting. But one of the major caveats here is that a rough diamond isn’t appraised in the same way as a cut stone and so it can be tough to know the true value of a stone.
One thing that is not mentioned in the article but is a question for me is how the value of the rough diamonds will hold up over time. It seems to me that it might be hard to resell one of these once the trend fades away. I’ve always thought of the beauty of a diamond as being a collaboration between nature and man because it takes a skilled cutter to reveal a diamond’s true beauty.
Tags: diamonds, rough diamonds, styles, trends
