QUALITY IS THE FOUNDATION UPON WHICH REAL STAR WAS BUILT. EVERY DAY WE STRIVE TO MEET THE HIGHEST STANDARDS FOR CUTTING AND POLISHING EACH DIAMOND IN OUR CARE.
Every employee at Real Star is accountable to the process of creating beautiful diamonds. The artisans involved in the planning, sawing, cutting and polishing of a diamond are entitled and expected to halt the process if they see an opportunity to compel more brilliance, more value from a diamond.
To create the finest gem possible from each rough, Real Star draws on generations of craftsmen and diamantaires, proven technology and more than forty-five years of experience.
Each gem begins as, quite literally, a diamond in the rough, one of many in the packets Real Star receives from its portfolio of ethical suppliers. Our rough diamond planners measure each rough diamond and assess its potential. If a diamond could be part of our Flawless collection, we direct it there for special care. If the diamond is merely gorgeous, it is forwarded to the experts in our planning department.
Here Real Star Diamond begins the work of considering what will emerge from the rough. The planner is the architect of the diamond and will consider many options for what shapes could result, what colors may imbue the diamond and where minor inclusions might be retained or excised. In contrast to the old image of a cutter with a hammer and cleaving chisel, state of art tech lasers operate noiselessly and precisely, painstakingly flashing atom after atom from the stone.
Here almost all of Real Star Diamond's rough is sawn into one or more diamonds, in accordance with the planner's vision, by computer-aided machines. In contrast to the old image of a cutter with a hammer and cleaving chisel, state of art tech lasers operate noiselessly and precisely, painstakingly flashing atom after atom from the stone. our diamond sawing operation requires careful work to set the stone perfectly in the machine and program the necessary cuts. Our cutters are also looking to the future, continually experimenting with new methods and tools to make the process more precise and efficient.
In the shaping process, also known as bruting or girdling, Real Star uses the hardness of diamonds as the ideal tool for smoothing a rough stone. To create the girdle, we use a ceramic wheel, coated in industrial diamond grit, and an electronic lathe that is monitored by our hawk-eyed artisans. While the name bruting suggests a blunt process, shaping requires the utmost care to ensure the proper amount of contact between the diamond and the wheel. A coolant solution, poured continually over the diamond during this process, keeps the diamond from developing burn marks or even miniscule fractures that could adversely affect its resulting size or clarity.
The final stage of a diamond's journey from the rough encompasses many steps, including blocking the pavilion and the crown into their basic shapes, and polishing the individual facets to the precise angles that will reflect cascades of light from deep inside. While this process is well known, what makes Real Star unique is that we entrust every aspect of an individual diamond's polishing to one craftsman. Instead of the output of an assembly line process, each of our gems is guided to its final form through the genius of a single artisan carefully working a diamond against a finely balanced polishing wheel or, to cut the notch of a heart-shaped diamond, an old-fashioned electro-mechanical sawing wheel. The results, which have made us the world leader in round and fancy solitaire diamonds, speak for themselves.