AGS Ideal Princess cut

[Bearman]

Just sold our first AGS Ideal princess cut.
What a beauty.

[oldminer]

Glad to see these new design stones are going to sell. They are very pretty although I have only seen a few coming through the lab so far. We trust AGS has done a good job, but how does one, AGSL included, quantify the difference between an AGS 0, AGS1 or AGS2 princess cut in terms of numerical measures of light performance? I know there are parameters of physical cut, but my interest is in the quantifable data that shows more light, more sparkle, better contrast (overall MORE BEAUTY) coming from a 0 than a 1 or a 2? Is this something that AGS offers or is it unexplained and we just have to accpet it on "faith"?

While I have become sort of a diamond scientist, many consumers also seek hard data and not the old "smoke and mirrors" approach. We'd sure like to know all we can.

THANKS.