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Loose fancy-coloured stones and uncut rough are now viewable by appointment in the Riyadh salon, under calibrated D65 daylight.
Until now the house showed loose stones only in Antwerp, beside the cutting bench. From this month the Riyadh salon holds a rotating parcel of eleven stones — vivid pink, deep blue, intense yellow and fancy green — presented in the same D65 daylight the graders use.
Viewings are private, take ninety minutes, and include the reactor record of every stone on the table.
Riyadh · Salon
Forty-one matched fancy pink hearts, grown across nine reactor cycles and matched to within one colour sub-grade.
The Rose parure leaves the bench today: necklace, earrings, bracelet and ring, 41 hearts, 62.8 carats in total, matched to within a single sub-grade of Fancy Intense Pink.
Nine growth cycles were required. Two of them were discarded outright when the nitrogen signature drifted beyond the house tolerance.
Antwerp · Atelier
The pavilion angle holds at 41.2°, but the star facet length is shortened by 1.5% after blind testing on twelve stones.
Twice a year the house revises its proportion sheet against a hemispherical light box. Revision fourteen keeps the 41.2 degree pavilion but shortens the star facets, lifting contrast in the table without softening the fire.
Every stone cut after 1 June carries the revision number on its optical report.
Antwerp · Maison
The third chapter was exhibited at Rue du Rhône alongside the reactors that grew it, open to clients and to the trade.
Eleven days, three rooms: the reactor room reconstructed at one-to-one scale, the cutting bench, and the chapter itself under museum lighting.
Four thousand two hundred visitors. Every piece shown carried a printed growth log a visitor could read end to end.
Geneva · Exhibition
Independent laboratories accept the CRFTD light-return report as a supplementary document for insurance valuation.
The house has issued its own optical report since the first chapter — light return, symmetry deviation and fluorescence behaviour, measured on our own bench.
From this month it is accepted as a supplementary document beside IGI grading for insurance valuation across the EU and the Gulf.
Antwerp · Award
Every retired piece, its stones, its buyer city and its growth log are published in a permanent digital vitrine.
A young house has a short archive — which is precisely why it should be complete. Every piece the house has retired is now published with its stones, its cycle log and the city it went to.
Nothing is removed from the archive, including the failures.
Online · Maison
For longer reading — the thinking rather than the record — the journal runs essays from the atelier and the reactor room.
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