Top Wesselton/Wesselton

Auzelia

I am looking at rings on Ebay.de (they have nicer ones than ebay.co.uk)
but I keep seeing the terms above and I dont know what they mean.
Does anyone here happen to know?

Horace

Top Wesselton and Wesselton are grading names given to diamonds.

I have two of these which I bought in Amsterdam. A top wesselton has pure colour and has no internal flaws whereas a wesselton has a tiny flaw (also known as an inclusion), you would need to be an expert to see it when using a gemmologists magnifier. If you see the letters vvi (it means very very small inclusion), vi means that the inclusion is more obvious.

Instead of buying gems on ebay why not hop over to Amsterdam and look around their diamond quarter - you can buy loose stones there and have them made up into rings.

Auzelia

thanks horace

Its a ready made ring

Auzelia

http://i6.ebayimg.com/04/i/000/94/50/048a_2.JPG

Horace

Its a beautiful ring.

I have managed to find the certificates that came with my stones and it tells what a Top Wesselton and Wesselton is:

A Top Wesselton is Fine White stone and a Wesselton is a White stone.

The best is River which is finest white/blue-white then followed by Top Wesselton and then Wesselton then further down the scale, Crystal, Top Cape and Cape.

White stones appear to be colourless when mounted into items of jewellery.

IF - internally flawless (classified as internally flawless when it does not show any inclusions under 10x magnification).

VVS very very small inclusions (one or more miniscule inclusions that can only be detected under 10x magnification by a very skilled expert)

VSI - very small inclusions (tiny inclusion(s) very difficult to see under 10x magnification

SI - small inclusions (small inclusion(s) easily seen under 10x magnification)

P I, II, III - Pique (P, I, II and III ranges from inclusions scarcely visible to the naked eye to larger and more numerous inclusions).

HTH

Auzelia

thank you Horace x