Gemology Tools for the Diamond & Jewellery industry
Binocular Head Loupe
Description: This binocular head loupe is available with your choice of five different magnifications: 1 3/4, 2, 2 1/2, 2 3/4 and 3 1/2.
Price in USD: 30 euros.
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Chelsea Color Filter
Description: Often called the Emerald Color Filter. Used primarily for recognizing emeralds, it also identifies certain green, red and blue stones. The filter detects dyes in certain gems and must be used with intense light.
Price in USD: 19 euros.
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Colorimeter
Description: Grades the color of loose and mounted diamonds in seconds with this powerful colorimeter. Fast, accurate and incredibly simple to operate. Handles most shapes and grades, for stones of between 0.25 and 10 carats.
Price in USD: 4,100 euros.
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Diamond Colortest Grader
Description: Very useful for the examination of color diamonds. Use a paperboard very white that you fold out to a V. Put the diamond inside, the culet of stone in upwards. Use the master stones to determine the color of the diamond.
Price in USD: 2.5 to 15 euros.
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Diamond Tester
Description: This instrument verifies the authenticity of diamonds against all known simulants. Apply the tip of the tester to a diamond to be tested and it will instantly tell you whether the stone is genuine or fake.
Price in USD: 110 to 340 euros.
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Dichroscope
Description: Used for the detection of pleochroism.
Price in USD: 61 to 145 euros.
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Fiber Optic Lamp
Description: Fully flexible. A length 45 to 72 cm. The fiber optic light carries cool and controlled intense white light anywhere. Essential for identifying difficult gem materials. Ideal for use with microscope, dichroscope, spectroscope, refractometer and Chelsea color filters.
Price in USD: 920 euros.
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Gauge
Description: It is used to measure dimensions of polished diamonds, to estimate their weights. They are very much used for the rough diamond cutting.
Price in USD: 4.33 to 382 euros.
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Gravity Liquid Set
Description: Used to identify loose gems by testing their specific gravity. If the stone sinks, it means that its gravity is greater than the liquid. Choice of five specific gravity liquids: 2.57, 2.62, 2.67, 3.05 and 3.32.
Price in USD: 225 euros.
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Lamp
Description: You can find daylight lamps with 2 or 3 tubes, the magnifying lamp. Tubes ultraviolet UV are optional.
Price in USD: 23 to 722 euros.
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Loupe
Description: Used by all professionals jewelry. A vaste selection of loupes satisfies the entire panorama of the optical industry. Triplets, hexagonal loupes, gem magnifiers and binocular head loupes.
Price in USD: 12 to 187 euros.
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Master Stones
Description: Used for color grading. Every nuance and color is identical to the real thing. Each master stone is guaranteed never to fade, and every set is precisely graded to perfection.
Price in USD: 46 to 320 euros.
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Microscope
Description: There are stereoscopic horizontal/vertical microscopes with zoom magnification from 6.5 to 50X.
Price in USD: 455 to 4,500 euros.
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Mobile Lab
Description: Set includes microscope, scale, diamond proportion analizer, gauge, dichroscope, refractometer, spectroscope, polariscope, and much more.
Price in USD: 4,500 to 9,343 euros.
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Opticon
Description: With a refractive index of 1.545, this epoxy resin is close to the R.I. range of natural emerald and therefore quite effective as a fracture filler for improving the apparent clarity of emeralds that have surface-reaching fractures.
Price in USD: 13 euros.
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Others
Description: Security wallets, chamois leathers, memo books and registers, minigrip bags, etc...
Price in USD: It all depends on the type of article
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Parcel Papers
Description: Used for the protection for handling all your precious goods: loose polished and rough diamonds, industrial gems and precious stones.
Price in USD: 3 to 50 euros.
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Parcel, Shipping, Display Boxes,
Description: There are many boxes: for parcels, for shipping, for display, for classification, for transport.
Price in USD: It all depends on the type of box.
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Pocket Scale
Description: The capacity of these balances varies between 0 and 50 carats. The precision of the weighing varies from 0.01 to 0.001 carat.
Price in USD: 293 to 596 euros.
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Polariscope
Description: The polariscope is used to dicern the optical characteristics of a gemstone. Will detect pleochronisms. Specialized in determining « strain » in diamonds; required for evaluating proper cutting angles and procedures.
Price in USD: 85 to 330 euros.
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Proportionscope
Description: Using proportionscope, the diamond's enlarged silhouette is projected on a iluminated screen where its proportions can be compared to perfect measurements provided on the screen's background. Just compare with the angle and percentage indicators.
Price in USD: 2,500 euros.
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Refractometer
Description: It is used to read the refraction index (from 1.30 to 1.79) of a stone on the principle of the total reflexion. The refractometer must be used with contact liquid.
Price in USD: 225 to 930 euros.
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Scale
Description: The capacity of these balances varies between 100 and 13,550 carats. The precision of the weighing varies between 0.01 and 0.001 carat.
Price in USD: 1,000 to 2,000 euros.
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Scoop
Description: There are chrome or black scoops of various capacities.
Price in USD: 4.45 to 13 euros.
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Sieves
Description: They are used for sorting rough and polished diamonds. There is manual or shaking sieve.
Price in USD: 4 to 5,352 euros.
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Software Digital Gem Version 1.1
Description: With a database of more than 300 minerals, this practical software program allows you to quickly and reliably identify gemstones. Determinations are based on various parameters, including refractive indices, density, dispersion, etc.
Price in USD: 171 euros.
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Software Digital Weight Version 1.1
Description: A Windows-PC software program that lets you easily calculate the weight in carats of precious stones in settings. It also determines the specific gravity of the stone to identify (diamond, zirconium, ruby, etc...). Just enter the maximum and minimum diameter and the total height of the jewel in millimeters, select the cut, and the weight is instantly calculated for you. The 19 most important cuts are integrated into the program.
Price in USD: 122 euros.
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Sorting Pads
Description: Used everyday by the trade for their sorting operations. Each pad has 70 sheets.
Price in USD: 10 to 17 euros.
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Sorting Tray
Description: A functional assortment of unbreakable plastic trays makes it easy to collect, sort and size diamonds, pearls, semi-precious and coloured stones.
Price in USD: 3.70 to 22 euros.
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Sorting-counting Machine
Description: The sorting machine can sort both rough and polished diamonds as well as other precious stones and semi-precious stones with weight limits ranging from 0.02 up to 1.00 carat. You can sort stones into 20 different cups chosen according to your own criteria. The counting machine processes and sorts at a rate of three to four stones a second, making an average of 15 measurements per parameters such as diameter, ovalization, girdle thickness, average crown thickness and crown thickness difference.
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Spectroscope
Description: The spectroscope breaks up the light being transmitted from a gemstone into its spectral colors, which allows the gemologist to see the various wavelengths that are being absorbed by the gemstone. Thereby allowing the gemologist to know what elements are contained in the gemstone that are causing the absorption. Making this one of the most important tools in identifying gemstones.
Price in USD: 60 to 5,155 euros.
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Tweezer
Description: There are many tweezers: chrome, black, extra fine to broad point.
Price in USD: 8.7 to 30 euros.
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UV Lamp
Description: Used for analizing fluorescence in diamonds and colored stones.
Price in USD: 22 to 360 euros.
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