This is GIA that held the even in
Japan, the country that got a chance to have a closer look onto the
world of colored diamonds. This is the second GemFest in the “Land
of the Rising Sun”, following the opening of the GIA laboratory in
Tokyo in December, 2012.
According to John King, the chief
quality officer of GIA, Japan is now the world's leading consumer
market for colored diamonds. It wasn't until mid 90th that colored
diamonds became the object of
interest of not only royal and rich people but of usual
customers either. King focused on most rare colors that ever emerged
in GIA lab, they are green, blue, blue-green, pinkish orange and
purple. However, there is now a high demand for pale colors which are
graded as F, G, H and I (D to Z scale). He also stressed on treated
diamonds, synthetics gems and HPHT treated colors.
GIA laboratories can boast a long
history, thus lots of graded colored diamonds are behind their belt.
Among the world-know colored gems
once evaluated by GIA there are the Hope, Sun Drop, Wittelsbach-Graff
and Dresden Green. Some rare diamonds were showcased during the
GemFest, among those there were the De Beers Diamond, Bulgari Blue,
Princie Diamond and Dresden Green.
The
number of diamonds given for evaluation has grown at 30% since 2010
as if giving a proof for a steady customer's interest toward colored
gems. The most common color for colored diamonds is yellow, then it
is followed by pink.
As
you can see, the interest for diamonds never fades, it may increase
or decrease in course of time, but people seem never stop admiring
them either as jewelry pieces or options for investments.
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