Glossary of the Gemtrade

A color that is most desired in one variety replica watches can be off-color in another variety, like yellow brown chrysoberyl cats eye (in) compared to yellow brown sapphire (out).Offer: Making an offer is to name and commit to a price you are willing to pay for a gemstone. Taking back an offer without very good reason is deemed rather impolite in the trade and might result in being shunned next time.Opaque: No light falls directly through a stone. Some varieties are opaque by definition (opal) while others may be just very included.Origin: The place where a gem is mined. An origin can be different from the ;country of manufacturing; which, legally and for tax purposes, is defined as the place where a stone is ;cut;. Premium origins like Ceylon or Burma command higher prices. Pad: Short form for padparadscha, a rare orange pink sapphire.Pale: Other word for light tone. A pale stone has little ;saturation;.Parcel: More than one gemstone sold for a package price. As a rule, if you negotiate a parcel price you cannot later cherry-pick from the parcel but you either have to take the complete parcel or reject it. Point: 0.01 carat. Measure used for smallest stones (to make it sound bigger). For example 10 points is 0.10 carat, which is really small but doesn’t sound so bad. Mostly used for diamonds.Recovery: Percentage of a gem that remains after cutting and polishing the rough. A realistic recovery rate is 20%. Thus one needs one gram of ;rough; to make a carat of final gem. The term is also used to describe the loss in re-cuts, e.g. from an emerald cut into a scissor.Rough: Uncut unpolished gemstone including crystals.