All diamonds sold by Regal Imports are graded in house; we do not use outside laboratories. Regal has maintained a consistent recognizable standard of grading for 30 years. There has been much talk about international laboratories changing standards. Regal is aware that international certificates have changed the severity of their grading standards. A Gemologist may be trained by the foremost laboratory in America to a standard that is higher than that institute uses for its own certificates. Regal Imports has noted that there are good certificates and bad certificates. Often, there are variations in the quality of certificates originating from the same well-recognized laboratory.

      Regal Imports was one of the first companies in Canada to adopt the GIA grading standard and use that grading on all invoices. This was 30 years ago when diamonds were sold using vague and uninformed terminology. We have not varied from those standards in 30 years, although it seems that our teachers have altered their standards.

      Regal Imports has the most sophisticated laboratory and equipment available. The gemologists at Regal Imports are trained to grade using the simple motto that if they personally would be unhappy buying a particular diamond at a certain grade than that grade must be wrong. There are good VS2s and there are bad VS2s; at Regal Imports a bad VS2 is an SI1. Our solid reputation for being the toughest graders in the industry speaks for itself. At Regal you can buy blind. This is why we have adopted the new statement: "Protecting your reputation by not compromising standards."

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