Os preços dos diamantes podem variar enormemente dependendo do formato do diamante, qualidade de corte, clareza e cor. Por exemplo, o custo de um diamante de um quilate pode variar de apenas $1,500 para mais de $16,000 para um corte extremamente bem, diamante de alta qualidade, enquanto um diamante de dois quilates poderia custar tão pouco quanto $6,000 or as much as $80,000 based on its shape, corte, clarity and color grades.
Como você pode ver, this is a huge range, with some diamonds costing as much as 10 times higher than other diamonds of the same carat weight.
Diamond prices depend on such a wide range of factors that’s very difficult to give an accurate price estimate for “diamonds” as a whole. The biggest of these are the four Cs, which we briefly mentioned earlier — cut quality, clareza, color and carat weight.
The better a diamond’s four Cs (ou, in the case of carat weight, the higher) the more expensive it will be. Resumidamente, the better a diamond’s quality, the more you’ll need to pay to purchase it.
Agora, this doesn’t mean that you can’t get a good quality diamond without paying a fortune. With diamonds, the key is to maximize the amount you spend on the factors that affect the diamond’s appearance, all while minimizing the amount you spend on the factors that don’t.
We’ve covered this in more detail further down the page. For now, let’s start by looking at how a diamond’s price is calculated based on its carat weight, cor, clarity and other factors.