BELGIUM: MAY 16, 2012
Antwerp & Diamonds, a brilliant story. The diamond district was an intimidating place. Much Curiosity sprung in the area - who has diamonds on them and how much. Within Belgium create a value added worth 2 billion US dollars. Eighty percent of all rough diamonds and 50% of all polished diamonds pass through Antwerp.
When we went to the Antwerpsche Diamantkring (Antwerp Diamond Market) building they gave as an informational PowerPoint presentations on the process of receiving the diamonds, cutting, polishing, and selling them. From this presentation we learned that when shopping for a diamond you want to look at The 5 C's:
- Carat
- Clarity
- Colour
- Cut
- Compliance
After the presentation they took us to one of their local diamond polisher's room. When we walked in he was just finishing up cutting a diamond on his diamond cutting wheel using diamond dust and paste. He had been doing this for the majority of his life and was so skilled that he has even designed some of his own unique cuts of diamonds. He showed us the various technology and tools that he uses in the process of cutting and polishing the diamonds including his high tech cutter and computer that shows him the exact angles need to make a cut for that specific diamond.
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| Pictures he had hanging on his wall of the different cuts that he designed himself using various angles and cuts |
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