Here is the kind of sentence that should keep a team up at night:
"At this clarity grade, you won't see a thing with the naked eye."
Our assistant produced it while explaining a diamond. The grade it cites is real — SI1, printed on
the stone's lab report. The promise attached to it is invented. A clarity grade is assigned under
10× magnification; it does not resolve what a naked eye will see. Two SI1 stones can look entirely






