0.50ct Round G VS1 GIA

What these grades mean on the finger

Graded G, near-colourless: to the naked eye it faces up white, and most buyers cannot tell it from a colourless grade once it is set. The saving over a D to F stone is real; the visible difference rarely is.

VS1 clarity: clean to the naked eye, with inclusions visible only under the loupe. The sweet spot where the certificate price drops but the face-up view does not.

At 0.5 carats, a well-cut round of this weight faces up at roughly 5.1 mm across. Cut quality decides how big it looks from across the table, which is why the cut grade matters more than the weight.

Graded by GIA, the laboratory that wrote the 4Cs. The original report travels with the stone and is independently verifiable on GIA Report Check before you pay a cent.