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The Carob Bean, found growing on trees all round the Mediterranean, they can be seen as shriveled mahogany coloured pods have a remarkable characteristic. Take 1000 beans and you will find they all weigh the same. This feature was a boon to early traders who could rely that a carob bean in France would be the same in Cyprus or Egypt, a universal standard of accurate weighing.

Diamonds are sorted by carat weight when being selected for Jewellery by Hearts on Fire™. In fact the white hot reflections and brilliance and fire of these specially cut diamonds suppresses the body colour of the diamonds, and it is quite possible to match fifteen or so diamonds based on the flash rather than on the body colours which could vary by a grade or three.

The similarity between the constancy of the Carob Bean, and that fact that you can rely always on a Perfect cut of symmetry, proportions and polish in a Hearts on Fire Diamond ™ leads me to suppose that Hearts on Fire's will also find near universal approval.

Weight loss

When a typical European Cut Diamond is cut there is less weight loss than that for a Hearts on Fire Super Ideal Cut.

If you had two similar weight rough crystals of five carats each, then hearts on Fire would probably generate two one carat hearts on fire diamonds, a weight loss of 60%, and that would take the cutter four times as long to achieve the perfection.

A modern round European brilliant might achieve a pair of diamonds nearer to 1.20 or even 1.25cts each if the girdle was allowed to be thick.

The cutting process gives the Hearts on fire a 20% price per carat disadvantage, but the resulting brilliance is well worth the added care taken to achieve "The World's most perfect cut Diamond"..

Master cutters

Consider this Hearts on Fire master cutters are regularly offering super ideal cut diamonds at 0.01ct, and now at just half that weight with the 1mm 0.005ct. These still displays the famous kaleidoscopic eight hearts and starburst as do all diamonds supplied by Hearts On Fire.