Black diamonds fall in the category of fancy diamonds along with green, yellow or red diamonds. Usually the solar radiation is responsible for the colourfulness of fancy diamonds, but it is different with black diamonds . Black diamonds gain their colour due to a multitude of small embeddings, mostly in the form of graphite.

History of the black diamond

Black diamonds have been known to mankind a couple of hundred years before they became very famous in the 1990ies along with black gemstones . Nowadays black diamonds are becoming even more famous which led the jewellery manufacturing industry to the production of black diamonds using radiation.

The most famous black diamond

The most famous black diamond is the so called “Black Orlov”, once owned by the Russian princess Nadia Vygin-Orlov.
The history of the cushion cut 67 carat diamond has been shrouded in mystery ever since. Some say that the Black Orlov once was stolen in India and later on belonged to the Russian princess. Today even rumours of a curse on the Black Orlov Diamond are being spread which haven’t been proofed, yet. The diamond has been bought and sold several times in the last couple of decades and is being loaned by its current owner to celebrities for different occasions, like for example the US-actress Nicollette Sheridan at the Academy Awards 2006.

Buying jewellery at The Jewellery Channel

The Jewellery Channel offers high-class jewellery at an affordable price, due to the fact that The Jewellery Channel draws its good directly from the mines, like black diamonds for example. Therefore overpriced intermediary are spared out. Those considerable cost savings are then passed on to the customer who can buy finest and most precious jewellery simply and easy via telephone or internet.

More information on The Jewellery Channel or fancy diamonds can be found on www.thejewellerychannel.tv .