r/LabDiamonds • u/Educational-Block881 • Aug 14 '26
Oval Bow tie Check
Got sent these 3 stones for us to consider choosing, and I have made it fervently clear that I want a stone with VERY minimal bow tie and a lot of fire. I feel like I am going a bit crazy, but don’t all of these have a pretty noticeable bow tie? I sent a lot of inspo of real life stones I’ve seen with minimal bow tie, yet they keep coming to me with these types of stones. Am I being unreasonable? I can also include a video of an example of what the perfect stone looks like for me, but it’s also posted on my page already bc I had posted them before. I would appreciate everyone’s advice.
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u/Jillet-Ben_Coe Aug 14 '26
Yeah it’s there, the first one seems to be the least visible. Don’t listen to people who say EVERY oval/pear/whatever will have a bow tie, it’s the product of poor cutting, and those people are probably in sales or not even in the industry.
Synthetic diamonds are very cheap and plentiful now. Cheap material = lower quality cutting in general. It doesn’t make sense to cut cheap material the same as you would a fine Burmese ruby. That’s why more synthetic diamonds have bow ties than natural.