Ms Ellen Joncheere, CEO HRD Antwerp – Diamonds come in all colours. The most common colours are best known as the D to Z colour range diamonds which starts from colourless to tinted (yellow or brown). The D colour is the best in this range with absolutely no colour. Z is the end of the range and any diamond darker than this is termed as a Fancy Colour Diamond.

Mr. Tehmasp Printer, MD and President, IGI India –While grading a diamond, 4C’s are considered, i.e. Color, Clarity, Cut & Carat weight. All 4 Cs are equally important as the overall value of the natural diamond is derived from the balance of the 4 Cs.

Ms Ellen Joncheere, CEO HRD Antwerp – On the contrary, it is a misconception.  Diamonds break along their cleavage planes also called ‘planes of weakness’, if there is a force striking the stone. The misconception comes from the confusion of diamonds being the hardest, which actually relates to scratch resistance based on the Mohs Scale of Hardness for minerals.