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0.60 ct total weight, E VVS2, six claws, GIA certified, 18K white gold
A pair of natural round brilliant diamonds, 0.30 carat each for 0.60 ct total, colour E, clarity VVS2, each held in a six-claw head of 18K white gold. GIA report 1525487491.
Four claws or six — on a stud it is the only design decision there is
A ring has a shank, shoulders, a profile. A stud has a stone and a head, and that is the entire object. Whether the head has four claws or six is therefore not a detail; it is the design.
Four claws grip at the compass points. It is the most open head possible: the least metal on the stone, the most light entering from the sides. The cost is subtle and most people never name it — four marks spaced around a circle give the eye four corners, and a round stone in four claws reads very slightly squared at the edge.
Six claws place the grip points closer together. Two things follow. The holding force spreads over more of the girdle, so each claw can be finer while the whole is more secure. And visually the outline rounds: six marks around a circle read as circular, where four read as a square’s corners. A six-claw head is the one that makes a round diamond look properly round.
The trade, and the reason it matters more on an ear
Six claws cover marginally more of the stone’s edge and admit marginally less light from the sides than four. At 0.30 ct that difference is real but small, and it is the price of the rest.
What is not small is security, and earrings are where it counts. A ring is struck from the front, against a desk or a doorframe. An earring is caught laterally — hair, a scarf, a jumper coming off — and a lateral snag is exactly the force that lifts a claw.
With six claws, one claw losing its grip does not free the stone; five still hold it and you notice at the next clean. With four, it can. That single fact is why six-claw heads are the standard on stones people intend to wear daily and never take off.
One small price: six claws give film one or two more places to sit. Brush behind the head when you clean them and it is no different from four.
E VVS2
E is one grade from the top of the colour scale, VVS2 a clarity at which a trained grader has to work at ten times magnification to find anything. At 4.3 mm per stone neither is visible as a grade — what they buy is the report. Our 0.60 ct F SI1 pair sets out exactly what that costs, across the five pairs we hold at this weight.
Specification
- Stones: two natural diamonds, round brilliant, 0.30 ct each, 0.60 ct total
- Colour: E Clarity: VVS2
- Certificate: GIA 1525487491
- Setting: six-claw heads, 18K white gold
The rest of the 0.60 ct family
Five pairs at this exact weight, compared side by side on the F SI1 page. All in diamond earrings.
Buying from Antwerp
In stock at our workshop in the Antwerp diamond district. Shipped insured, boxed, with the GIA report.
