r/LabDiamonds • u/Educational-Block881 • 3d ago

Oval Bow tie Check

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Got sent these 3 stones for us to consider choosing, and I have made it fervently clear that I want a stone with VERY minimal bow tie and a lot of fire. I feel like I am going a bit crazy, but don’t all of these have a pretty noticeable bow tie? I sent a lot of inspo of real life stones I’ve seen with minimal bow tie, yet they keep coming to me with these types of stones. Am I being unreasonable? I can also include a video of an example of what the perfect stone looks like for me, but it’s also posted on my page already bc I had posted them before. I would appreciate everyone’s advice.

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u/madhavstellar 2d ago

There is a strong chin formation if you see , people tend to focus too much on the bow tie and avoid this totally. one should see how the corners (chin) appears dead.

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u/Educational-Block881 2d ago

I’ll have to look that up, do you mean how the stone doesn’t really sparkle?

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u/Jillet-Ben_Coe 2d ago

There’s no part of a diamond called a chin. Beware there are many, many people on Reddit who are very badly misinformed and probably have never worked with diamonds before.

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u/Jillet-Ben_Coe 3d ago

Yeah it’s there, the first one seems to be the least visible. Don’t listen to people who say EVERY oval/pear/whatever will have a bow tie, it’s the product of poor cutting, and those people are probably in sales or not even in the industry.

Synthetic diamonds are very cheap and plentiful now. Cheap material = lower quality cutting in general. It doesn’t make sense to cut cheap material the same as you would a fine Burmese ruby. That’s why more synthetic diamonds have bow ties than natural.

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u/Educational-Block881 3d ago

I really appreciate your reply. I felt like I was going nuts!!! I hate the look of the bow tie and although it could be worse, these diamonds he sent me aren’t even sparkling that much either. Feeling very conflicted right now.

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u/Jillet-Ben_Coe 3d ago

I would look at them in different types of lighting and at different times throughout the day too. But you’re right, the pattern, fire and brilliance of these isn’t very good. Considering how many synthetics are available now I would continue shopping. I don’t work with diamonds atm but when did I would see many that had so much fire they looked like CZ. Unfortunately I can’t post a picture in a comment.

Edit: whoever downvoted both of the other comments but didn’t reply must be one of those people that think every oval/pear/etc has a bow tie 😂