HOW TO BUY A TRUE DIAMOND FROM HISTORIC JEWELERS ROW IN CHICAGO?

 Are you hanging about in the lane of Historic Jewelers Row in Chicago, just to buy a piece of true diamond? Ok, why are you so upset. You are thinking that how can you buy a true piece, right? Fine. You don't need to be upset further because we are here to give you the solution for it.

If you have decided to buy a diamond from the diamond district, Historic Jewelers Row in Chicago, then you must have gone through the place's history-geography. You also have come to know that the jewelry shops will provide you with a collection of diamond-studded jewelry or loose diamonds at a wholesale rate. But if you don't have any idea regarding diamonds then you can have the chance of being fooled by the fraud jewelers. What are the things that you need to keep in mind before purchasing?

The primitive characteristic of a diamond that you should never forget is the four C's of a diamond. All the properties of diamond lie in this four C's. What is that? Four C's of a diamond are the four major principles that are Cut, Colour, Clarity, and Carats. Cut of a diamond defines its brightness. Finer and better is the cut, more will be its brightness thus better will be its quality. Clarity defines the flaws or inclusions in a diamond. Carats refer to the measurement of a diamond where 1 carat= 0.20gms. A colorless diamond is the pure diamond and is graded as D, E, F. But these diamonds are very rare in nature and as a result very expensive. Whereas there are also some diamonds which possess different colors like blue, pink, yellow or white. These are G, H, I graded diamonds and most of the jewelry is studded with these diamonds.

Just having this much of knowledge is not enough to detect a true diamond. Because there are some lab-grown diamonds like Cubic Zirconia which act as a substitute since they resemble real diamonds in both physical and chemical composition. You should know how to detect a true diamond. Every jewelry shops in the Historic Jewelers Row provide their customer with a personal assistant who will assist you to buy the perfect diamond. You can ask them for a proof test of the diamond-studded jewelry or any loose diamond. But before you ask them to do why not you do it by your own self.

For a diamond which is mounted, you can perform a fog test or a test with the help of a magnifying glass. What you have to do? In a fog test just keep the diamond in front of your mouth and fog it. If the stone gets easily fogged then it will be proved that it is not a true one. Otherwise, it will not get fogged. You can ask the person concerned for the magnifying glass so that you can observe the inclusions or flaws in it. Diamonds which have no inclusions at all are mainly lab-grown because a natural diamond can never be flawless. These test can be applied for the diamond-studded jewelry.

But if you are buying a loose diamond, then you can perform refractivity test, reflection test, or high-density test. Place the stone on a newspaper in such a way that flat surface face the page. If you can read the letter through the stone then the stone is not real. You can also do the dot test with a white paper. Just make a dot on a white page and place the stone. If you can observe a circular reflection while looking through the stone then the stone is fake. Or else if you look down the stone and find a gray reflection then you can be satisfied that the stone is real. Real or true diamond will never give a rainbow reflection. Mention that all these tests should be done in presence of light. You can also check the weight of the diamond by just dropping it into the water. As diamond is the hardest substance it will sink instantly.

So all these tests can help you to buy a true diamond from this area. If you have any further queries you can also take an expert advice for your own satisfaction. Before purchasing you should go through the sites of the jewelers and make your mind from which jeweler you want to buy as there are plenty. As you know there are two multistoried malls the Mallers building and the Wabash Jewelers Mall and both of them have a collection of jewelers with an exclusive collection of jewelry. All of them provide their own site. You can easily go through their sites before walk-in to their stores. Not only these there are plenty of small traders in this area. So you should be very careful without being hypnotized. But whatever it is, buying a jewelry or lose diamonds from this Historic Jewelers Row in Chicago is the best choice that you have made.