DIAMOND Fancy Intense Yellow - EXCEPTIONAL VVS - NO RESERVE PRICE - Height: 3 mm - Width: 2.9 mm- 0.05 g - (1)

This magnificent natural rough diamond from India immediately captivates with its particularly fresh and luminous lemon-yellow color, paired with very beautiful transparency of VVS quality.

Its hue can be gemmologically described as a Fancy Lemon Yellow, a bright yellow with lemony undertones that stands apart from the warmer, golden tones typically seen in yellow diamonds.

Alongside this remarkable color, there is an extremely expressive rough crystallization: natural surfaces, growth figures, reliefs and reflections form a true miniature architecture.

Preserved in its natural state, this diamond allows direct appreciation of the crystal’s character before any cutting, which gives it particular appeal for a premium collection of rough diamonds and naturally colored diamonds.

Technical specifications

- Stone: Natural rough diamond
- Weight: 0.26 carat
- Dimensions: 3.0 × 2.9 × 2.8 mm
- Origin: India
- Color: Fancy Lemon Yellow
- Hue: Bright lemon yellow
- Cla rity stated: VVS
- Condition: Rough, unfaceted
- Morphology: Natural crystal with visible growth structures
- Quality: Premium selection
- Interest: Collection, gemology, rough diamonds and colored natural diamonds
- Naturalness: 100% natural

A remarkable lemon yellow color

The diamond’s personality rests primarily on its particularly bright color. Unlike yellow diamonds with orange-tinged or strongly golden nuances, this specimen develops a cooler yellow, directly evoking ripe lemon and sunlight. This vivid tone traverses the crystal’s various transparent zones and concentrates at certain edges and reliefs, producing flashes of remarkable intensity. Under direct lighting, the natural surfaces alternate between saturated lemon yellow, pale yellow and almost white highlights, giving the crystal an extremely dynamic appearance.

VVS quality and excellent luminous presence

The stated VVS clarity is another major asset of this specimen. Its beautiful transparency facilitates the circulation of light within the crystal. It successively encounters the many natural surfaces and internal structures, producing a multitude of reflections that particularly showcase its color. The combination of vivid color, high transparency and rough state is especially appealing to the collector, as it allows simultaneous study of the diamond’s optical properties and its natural morphology.

A complex crystal architecture

Close observation reveals a fascinating structure. The crystal presents a succession of flat surfaces, reliefs, striations and natural growth figures. Some zones strongly reflect light while others allow deeper observation into the stone’s interior. This complexity is precisely one of the great attractions of rough diamonds: no modern cutting has determined the arrangement of its facets. The visible shapes result directly from its natural crystal growth and geological history. Each relief thus becomes a kind of microscopic archive of the crystal’s formation.

A color born from the diamond’s core structure

Natural yellow diamonds usually owe their color to nitrogen incorporated into their crystal lattice during formation. This presence alters the absorption of certain wavelengths of light and enables the appearance of the famous yellow hues of natural diamonds. In this specimen, this coloration is expressed in an especially attractive lemon tone, giving the crystal a personality very different from that of a colorless diamond.

Formation deep within the Earth

Behind this stone lies an extraordinary geological history. Natural diamonds form at great depths, when carbon is subjected to extreme pressure and temperature. After crystallization, they must still be transported toward upper crust levels by magmatic processes before being released and discovered. The specimen presented today thus represents the culmination of natural processes that occurred over substantial geological time scales. Its rough state precisely allows preserving an observable portion.

India and the legendary history of the diamond

Its Indian origin also lends a particularly prestigious historical dimension. Long before the great diamond discoveries of Brazil and Africa, India was for centuries the world’s principal source of diamonds. Diamonds from the subcontinent fed royal treasuries and trade between Asia, the Middle East and Europe. Indian diamond history is thus closely tied to the history of the most prestigious gems. For a collector, this provenance allows pairing the mineralogical interest of the crystal with a historical dimension deeply linked to the very origins of the diamond trade.

A premium specimen for the collector

This diamond offers a particularly appealing combination: Indian origin, natural rough state, stated VVS quality, beautiful transparency and especially a remarkable Fancy Lemon Yellow color. It will naturally find its place in a collection devoted to rough diamonds, various crystal morphologies, or natural chromatic variations of diamonds.

A natural diamond with a unique character

With 0.26 carats, this specimen concentrates remarkable gemological richness: a brilliant lemon-yellow color, excellent luminous presence and a natural crystal architecture that is particularly detailed. A refined and luminous collector’s piece, ideal for appreciating the diamond in its most authentic expression: a natural color crystal, preserved as Earth shaped it.

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