Round 8X Lab-Grown Diamond
8X Diamond Shapes:
Recognized for their extraordinary brilliance and beauty, these lab-grown diamonds are meticulously analyzed and ultimately certified to be physically and optically excellent in eight critical factors of cut quality.
Clarity
Our handpicked GCAL 8X Diamonds have a clarity grade of 'Very Slightly Included' or better to ensure no imperfections are visible to the eye.
Color
Our handpicked GCAL 8X Diamonds have a color grade of 'colorless' to ensure they do not have a yellow hue.
Cut
Our handpicked GCAL 8X Diamonds have a cut grade of excellent in 8 categories to ensure the most brilliance, fire, & scintillation.
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WHAT SETS THE 8X® APART FROM OTHER DIAMONDS?
The 8X Ultimate Cut Grade was developed to distinguish the best of the best diamonds. In today’s market, more than half of all Round Brilliant Cut diamonds are given ‘Excellent’ Cut grades, but less than 1% of those qualify as 8X.The GCAL 8X Ultimate Cut Grade gives discerning buyers a way to confidently select the most brilliant and beautiful diamonds, even when purchasing online, sight unseen.
THE GCAL 8X® ULTIMATE DIAMOND CUT GRADING SYSTEM ENCOMPASSES ALL ASPECTS OF DIAMOND CUT QUALITY ASSESSMENT
1. Polish
2. External Symmetry
3. Proportions
4. Optical Brilliance
5. Fire
6. Scintillation
7. Optical Symmetry
8. Hearts & Arrows
8X®is the ultimate achievement in precision diamond cutting. Only extraordinarily brilliant and beautiful diamonds achieve EXCELLENT grades in all EIGHT aspects of CUT quality assessment.
PHYSICAL EXCELLENCE
The first three of the 8X grading factors analyze the exactness of the physical surface, the facet shapes, as well as the angles.
POLISH
GCAL gemologists examine every facet to ensure it is free of polish marks, burns and scratches
SYMMETRY
Master cutters identically shape each facet around the diamond and ensure they are perfectly aligned.
PROPORTIONS
Optical scanning technology measures each facet and angle to produce an accurate, to-scale diagram of every diamond.
LIGHT PERFORMANCE
The next three of the 8X grading factors analyze the light handling ability of your diamond. The combination of these factors is the essence of what makes any diamond visibly shine, dance and sparkle from across a room.
OPTICAL BRILLIANCE
is the overall return of white light to the viewer. It is measured to the thousandth decimal place and is represented in this image. The white areas indicate light return / brilliance, and the dark blue areas indicate light loss.
FIRE
results when white light travels through a diamond and is dispersed into its rainbow of spectral colors. These flashes of color contribute to sparkle and are best viewed as the diamond moves.
SCINTILLATION
is the flashes of white light, or sparkle, produced when light is reflected from a diamond as it moves. This video shows the light returned from a single beam of light when your lab grown diamond is rotated in nine positions.
OPTICAL EXCELLENCE
The last two 8X grading factors scrutinize the craftsmanship and the precise alignment of the crown and pavilion facets in harmony, to achieve aesthetic perfection.
OPTICAL SYMMETRY
is visualized in this photograph of your lab grown diamond taken in a specific colored lighting environment. The evenness of the pattern illustrates the precision and uniformity of facet shapes and alignment..
HEARTS & ARROWS
Precision faceting is visualized as Hearts & Arrows when round brilliant cut diamonds are viewed in specific lighting conditions. Each pattern is the result of superior facet placement and exact alignment.
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GCAL Guaranteed Diamond Grading Certificate
The 4Cs Grading Consumer Guarantee ("Guarantee") is fundamental to GCAL's concept of independent, third-party grading. This Guarantee ensures that the carat weight and the quality grades (cut, color and clarity) in a GCAL by Sarine 4Cs Grading Certificate (“4Cs Certificate”) are accurate within recognized gemological tolerances, subject to the limitations below. GCAL also guarantees that the diamond certified in a 4Cs Certificate is an authentic natural or lab-grown diamond.
GCAL Certified Diamonds are Gemprinted & Registered
What is Gemprint?
GEMPRINT® is the world’s most sophisticated, non-invasive, positive identification technology that records the unique optical ‘fingerprint’ of each diamond. Just like a human fingerprint, every diamond has a unique GEMPRINT®. Invented in 1976, this patented and proven technology has been used by the FBI and Canadian Government. When stolen jewelry is recovered, the diamond's GEMPRINT® can be matched with an ID in the database.
The added security of Gemprint® entitles you to receive discounts from insurers in the U.S. and abroad.
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