The CUT is probably the most important ‘C’ of all as it will be picked up by the untrained human eye straight away in the worse of cases and can be picked up as well when diamonds are compared to one another. If a diamond is poorly cut it will sparkle less to begin with and may not show its full actual visual size to weight ratio either. This is often the case with diamonds marketed in India under terms as ‘IDEAL’ or ‘Hearts’, which are well cut diamonds, but cut to a set of proportions that allow the visual size to be impaired when compared to a diamond cut to another set of proportions. There are other specifications to do with the quality of cut, which is the ‘finish’, and the ‘symmetry’ of the diamond. The finish is basically the quality of polish of the facets and the ‘symmetry’ is the way they have been cut on the diamond, some facets can overlap others, which will impair the symmetry, therefore.