What Does Total Carat Weight Mean For Earrings

Above is a pair of our lab grown diamond studs at 1 3 ctw.

What does total carat weight mean for earrings.

What does total carat weight mean. To compare that a one carat diamond is 6 4mm. This means that each earring has a carat weight of between 0 14 0 17 with a combined carat total weight of 1 3 or between 0 29ct 0 34ct. The total carat weight of a 100 small diamonds aka melees each weighing two points 0 02 carats is the same as the weight of a single 2 carat diamond.

So while the one carat is double the weight the face of the half carat diamond is only 21 smaller. Of course there are other types of earrings as. A parcel of melee diamonds left versus a single 2 carat diamond right. Each earring would be about a half carat 0 50 equaling one total carat weight.

A half carat diamond is usually 5 1mm in diameter. Carat weight is used to refer to the weight of a single diamond. For instance if a pair of diamond studded earrings has a total carat weight of 50 carat then each earring in this pair would have an individual carat weight of 25 carat. That is 1 5th of an inch.

However there are price increases which occur at different levels of carat weight like between 0 49 and 0 50 carats for example and thus there is actually a difference in price between a pair of one carat total weight diamond earrings that consists of two diamonds weighing 0 49 carats each which would have a combined total weight of 0 98. Total carat weight on the other hand is used to mean the sum of the individual carat weights of all diamonds in a piece of jewelry.