DIAMOND BUYING GUDIE

Hamish Whiting, founder and GIA Gemologist with HRD Antwerp Diamond Grader certification, goes a GRADE ABOVE™ in his rigorous diamond sourcing process, personally hand-selecting each stone. Drawing on 20 years of diamond buying expertise, his carefully developed strategy ensures our clients receive diamonds that represent both exceptional performance and outstanding value on a global scale.

Ethically sourced by our GIA Gemologist directly from diamond Global Sightholder companies, enabling us to trace the diamond rough back to one of the big reputable mining operations. These mining operations go above and beyond internationally recognised labour, trade and environmental standards, providing miners with fair wages and safe working conditions, empowering their communities, and working towards net zero emissions.

Our modern diamonds include top performing white diamonds as well as coloured diamonds (champagne and yellow).

Hamish Whiting, our Co-Founder and Gemologist, goes a GRADE ABOVE™ the traditional 4C's with his meticulous diamond selection process, setting a new standard in diamond quality. This expert approach ensures only the finest diamonds are chosen for our clients, surpassing conventional grading methods.

EXPERIENCE AND EXPERTISE:
Hamish Whiting is a GIA Gemologist and HRD Antwerp diamond grader. With over 20 years of experience in buying diamonds on the international market, this extensive expertise makes him an intuitive and strategic buyer, ensuring our customers access to the finest diamonds at exceptional value.

ACCESS:
Hamish takes a broad approach, reviewing freshly cut diamonds daily from the major international siteholder companies to select only the top-performing, best-value stones in the world for our customers. Based in Antwerp, the heart of the diamond trade, Hamish is immersed in the industry. His in-depth knowledge of trends, coupled with a unique network, allows him exclusive access to the finest diamonds and the ability to negotiate the best prices.

TOOLS:
A key aspect of Hamish's expertise is his deep, intuitive understanding of diamond buying technology. We use ASET (Angular Spectrum Evaluation Tool) to assess the cut quality of every diamond we purchase. This is crucial, as most diamonds, even those with a GIA Triple Excellent cut grade, are not cut to ideal proportions. ASET light return maps are complex and require significant experience to interpret correctly, ensuring we select only the finest diamonds.

PASSION:
Hamish is a true Gemologist and explorer, he is never resting but always looking for something new whether it be a new diamond buying or cutting technology or a new interesting gem source. He spends hours and hours seeking out the best diamonds and gemstones for our customers with a lot of integrity and pride.

Whilst the same physically and chemically to natural diamonds, lab grown diamonds have a very different value and story. Lab grown diamonds are created in a factory using crystallised carbon taken from the natural diamond mining process and simulating high temperature, high pressure conditions that occur deep in the earth's mantle over millions of years but in a matter of weeks. Because lab grown diamonds are able to be produced on demand the value is unstable in comparison to natural diamonds.