DIAMOND AND JEWELLERY GRADING PROCESS
1. Register and submit diamonds or jewellery
Your diamonds and jewellery will be in the best hands.
When buying diamonds and jewellery, it is in your best interest that they are graded impartially and objectively. At HRD Antwerp, we are committed to offering you transparency about your diamonds and jewellery.
2. Examination process
Each stone is thoroughly examined.
When submitted in our lab, your diamonds and jewellery will be thoroughly examined by our expert graders. All the diamonds in your jewellery undergo a thorough check to identify them to be natural, lab grown or imitation stones.
3. Issuing an HRD Antwerp Grading Report
You will receive a professional analysis.
The grading results of your diamonds and jewellery are printed on highly secure grading reports. Each report contains the grading results of your diamond, namely the 4Cs: carat, colour, clarity and cut. In addition to the 4Cs, our jewellery grading reports also enlist additional details, including the metal purity and setting style of your jewellery.
4. My HRD Antwerp – Find your report
Track and trace your diamonds and jewellery.
My HRD Antwerp is a secure, 24/7 online service that provides global access to the HRD Antwerp grading report archive and transit results.
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HEARTS & ARROWS DIAMOND
Hearts & Arrows diamonds are precisely cut, round brilliants that, when examined using a special viewer, display eight hearts through the pavilion of the diamond and eight arrows through the crown of the diamond. The appearance of the pattern is a strong indicator of a top-quality cut.
HRD ANTWERP – EDUCATION
Polish Your Knowledge, Build Your Skills
HRD Antwerp, Europe’s prestigious academy of gemmology and diamond grading, offers you the comprehensive knowledge of diamonds and coloured stones you need to succeed in the jewellery industry. You will acquire both technical skills and practical expertise to evaluate gemstones. You will learn how to use the four evaluation factors, the 4Cs (colour, clarity, cut and carat weight), in full compliance with HRD Antwerp quality standards and using the technology that HRD Antwerp has developed and continues to develop.
With fifty years of experience, HRD Antwerp is the international reference for education and skills development in the diamond, gemstone and jewellery industry.
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HRD Antwerp – SUSTAINABILITY
We as HRD Antwerp are committed to set best-practice standard transparency and trust. This includes ecologically and socially responsible practices and a clear and scientific grading mechanism. We create consumer awareness through education and educational programs.
We are working hard on our ecological footprint. Furthermore, we want to contribute to lowering the ecological footprint of the entire supply chain.
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Point of Trust
Customer satisfaction: our top priority
We want to strive to exceed our customers’ expectations. This is why we have turned our
customers into partners and ambassadors.
By joining our Point of Trust Program/Centre of Excellence Programmes, they have access to
countless advantages, including access to all HRD Antwerp innovations, lab services and
education without forgetting our UpToDate research department.
As we always seek to improve ourselves, we invite you, our partners, to keep on giving their
feedback and comments. It is only with continual sharing that we can improve and thus
better serve our customers, which is our main mission every day.
Centre of Excellence
Partners in Education
Our partners in education are located in Italy, Spain, Poland, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and The Philippines.
We organize our diamond, gemmology and design courses on a regular basis with our partners. To know
more about our course schedule, visit our education section.
Global Presence
Headquartered in the City of Diamonds – Antwerp in Belgium, our company-owned laboratories are present in Antwerp, Dubai and Mumbai. Our representative and partner labs are present in Madrid, Surat, Türkiye, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia. Our education partners are present in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Dubai, The Philippines, Türkiye, Italy and Spain.
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