The World’s First Diamond Ring

  It’s a design that just had to happen.  “The world’s first diamond ring” has been unveiled by Shawish, a Swiss Jewelry company.  Priced at a cool $70 million, it’s an engagement ring that’s in a league of its own.
       Whilst all engagement rings consist of a band made from a precious metal set with diamonds, this ring is something else entirely.

Cut from Just One Rough Diamond

The whole ring has been cut from a single chunk of rough diamond, utterly incredible and breathtakingly beautiful.  No metal band or diamond setting to obstruct the flow of light.  This is a ring with ultimate diamond brilliance and fantastic light flashes and sparkle



A Year’s Work

It took one year to carve the ring which of course is now copyrighted; they wouldn’t want all of is to try the same thing, would they?

Cutting a diamond of that size is no simple matter, however, Shawish Jewelry president and CEO Mohamed Shawesh and his talented team managed to pull off the incredible feat.  Lazers were used to enable a hole to be cut through the center of the diamond without disturbing the diamond’s molecular structure.

Why diamond grades begin with "D" & not A, B, C?

Something’s missing here…hmm…even my 4 year old can sing the alphabet in his sleep. A, B, C, D, E, F, G…so how did A, B and C get left out of the color grading scale and skipped straight to D??

The first ever official grading of Diamonds was in England by the London Diamond Syndicate – in order to sort through rough Diamonds for sale. From that point up until the 1940s there were many different color systems diamond traders used…   

Letters of the alphabet (A, AA, AAA; A, B and C, with multiple A’s for the best stones), Arabic (0, 1, 2, 3) and Roman Numerals(I, II, III), and descriptions such as “golconda”,  “river”,  “jagers”,  “cape”,  “blue white”, “fine white”,  “gem blue” and “brown” and more…

– comparing and determining Diamond Color was confusing, inconsistent and inaccurate. 

Then along came the Gemological Institute of America, shaking its head and offering us a deep sigh of relief! At last! The Color Grading Scale along with so many of the GIA’s incredible work in the field of diamond grading, was developed in the 1940’s and 50’s. The GIA wanted a fresh start and to avoid any association with the past bedlam surrounding Color Grading. Thus the Color Grading System we have today was born – starting not with the already confusing I, 1 or A …but the fresh and untouched letter D. And the rest, as they say, is history!

Today, across the Globe, Diamond experts fully co-operate and use the GIA Diamond Grading Chart, ranging from Perfect, Colorless “D” to Yellowish, Brownish “Z”.