What is a champagne diamond?

A champagne diamond is a real diamond with a natural, soft golden-brown colouring. It counts among the fancy colour diamonds and is more accessible than rare colours such as red or blue.

Are coloured diamonds real diamonds?

Yes. Fancy colour diamonds are real diamonds. Their colour arises from trace elements or peculiarities in the crystal lattice and is graded separately.

Why are red and blue diamonds so rare?

Because the geological conditions for these colours coincide extremely rarely. Red diamonds are among the fewest stones ever found, and their value is correspondingly high.

Are fancy colour diamonds an investment?

Rare colours such as red, pink and blue are considered particularly stable in value because their supply is limited. A rise in value can never be guaranteed, however; what matters is rarity, quality and documentation.

Fancy colour diamonds: champagne, mint and rare colours

With a white diamond the whole grading works against colour: the more colourless, the more valuable. Fancy colour diamonds turn this logic around. Here colour is not a drawback but the rare event that makes a stone unique.

When colour turns from flaw to value

Colour in a diamond arises from trace elements or peculiarities in the crystal lattice. In white stones even a slight yellow tint reduces the value. If the colouring exceeds a certain intensity, however, the stone leaves the white scale and is graded as a fancy colour, by its own logic, in which saturation and purity of the colour count.

The accessible colour world: champagne, mint, yellow

Champagne, mint green and yellow form the more accessible fancy colours. They possess a warm, independent presence and unfold a particular depth in the glass. A champagne diamond, for instance, carries soft, golden-brown tones that look calm and refined in the gathered light of the glass body.

Pendant with a diamond in brown glass on stone — In the glass the colour gains depth because the light carries it from all sides.

The rare ones: red, pink and blue

Red, pink and blue are among the rarest diamond colours of all. Red diamonds count among the fewest stones ever found worldwide. At Diamonds in Glass these colours appear exclusively in limited, numbered Rare Editions, documented and made for collectors.

Fancy colours in brief

With fancy colours, colour increases the value instead of reducing it.
Champagne, mint and yellow are more accessible and expressive.
Red, pink and blue are extremely rare, with us only as Rare Editions.
The background colour in the glass is also chosen deliberately to heighten depth.

„In a white diamond, colourlessness is the ideal. In a fancy colour diamond, the colour is its greatest value.“

Discover the colour world and the rare editions.

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Frequently asked questions

Answered briefly

A champagne diamond is a real diamond with a natural, soft golden-brown colouring. It counts among the fancy colour diamonds and is more accessible than rare colours such as red or blue.
Yes. Fancy colour diamonds are real diamonds. Their colour arises from trace elements or peculiarities in the crystal lattice and is graded separately.
Because the geological conditions for these colours coincide extremely rarely. Red diamonds are among the fewest stones ever found, and their value is correspondingly high.
Rare colours such as red, pink and blue are considered particularly stable in value because their supply is limited. A rise in value can never be guaranteed, however; what matters is rarity, quality and documentation.