Diamond Weight
The Carat
Carat is likely one of the oldest surviving units of measurement in history, used since antiquity as a standard unit to trade commodities and from the 1570s it began an inseparable relationship with the diamond. One carat is equal to 0.2 grams, doesnt sound like much but it might be the most valuable 0.2 grams that many people will come across in their lifetimes, did you know that to find even this much diamond we would have to move over 2400 tons of earth? Thats how rare diamonds are.
Obviously the bigger they are the rarer they are and can grow in value as they grow in size, the way we value that mass of diamond really depends on the defining characteristics of the diamond as we go on to describe in the rest of our guide.