When you think of Belgium what are the first things that come to mind? Flavoured beer? Frites? Waffles? Or something a little less perishable and a lot more precious … like diamonds?
The historic port city of Antwerp is one of Belgium’s largest and prettiest, with a charming historic centre that makes you feel like you have stepped back in time to the Middle Ages. The city has been an important centre through the centuries for finance and trade, including sugar, pepper and textiles. Yet Antwerp is most famous for being the centre of one particularly dazzling industry: Diamonds.
When it comes to selecting a diamond ring, there is so much choice on offer, and such a wide array of quality, how do you know that you are getting value for money? That’s why it’s important to buy from reputed centres, and they don’t get bigger than Antwerp in the diamond world.
Expertise: An important diamond centre for several centuries, today Antwerp really is the diamond capital of the world, with up to 85% of the world’s rough diamonds passing through the Antwerp Diamond Quarter. Over 380 workshops and 3,500 brokers, merchants and diamond cutters equate to an awful lot of expertise concentrated in a single area of about one square mile!
Conflict Free: In accordance with UN resolutions, every diamond that comes from Antwerp is conflict free. Reputed diamond boutiques, such as Private Diamond Club, have a zero-tolerance policy towards conflict diamonds.
Regulation: Along with their conflict free status, the Antwerp World Diamond Centre is an industry body that plays an important role in setting standards, regulating professional ethics and providing training to ensure the best practices prevail.
Range: As befits the city’s status as the centre of the diamond industry, there is a smorgasbord of choice when it comes to selecting the perfect jewel for your exact requirements, from carat, to clarity, colour, cut, shape, symmetry, finish, and fluorescence.
The Antwerp Cut: If the ‘cut’ (or proportion) of the diamond is one of the eight essential criteria for choosing a diamond (see above), than surely the skill of the artisans undertaking this task is crucial? Trust the cutters of Antwerp, widely acknowledged as the finest in the world, to create diamonds of the highest quality cut.
You don’t have to go all the way to Antwerp, however, to find a diamond from there. Online luxury diamond boutique Private Diamond Club supplies directly from the cutting shops of Antwerp, guaranteeing the best possible price combined with the highest quality stones. Visit our website www.private-diamond-club.com to learn more.
I love this so much. There are so many things to look for when trying to find your perfect ring. Not to mention you want to be obsessed with the design.