Unfortunately, Alex Frankel recently passed away but please take a look at some interesting diamonds. He was 6 weeks short of 93, still driving and cutting diamonds!

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When do you need the best diamond cutter to re-cut or repair your diamonds?  When your diamond is 1.00 ct or larger, you can't afford to use just any diamond cutter!  With Alex Franckel, the best diamond cutter, your diamond will have a better shape, proportion, polish and symmetry.  But most importantly only the best diamond cutter can guarantee you substantially less weight loss.  Excess weight loss can cost you a lot of money.  Additionally, even one point can mean maintaining a carat weight or falling under the carat weight, costing you even more money.  The best diamond cutter may even be able to improve the clarity grade of your diamond.

Alex Franckel can re-polish a burned diamond losing only two tenths of one point!  No other diamond cutter can do that.  Alex Franckel can repair your diamond with substantially less weight loss than any other diamond cutter.  If you have a 1.03 carat diamond in need of a repair and don't want to get back a 0.97 carat diamond, you need Alex Franckel.  If you have a five carat or larger diamond, you need the best diamond cutter!  Alex Franckel accepts diamonds from 0.25 cts. to recut or repair and personally re-cuts all diamonds from 0.75 carats and above.

Alex Franckel has improved clarity grades from SI1 to Flawless with insignificant weight-loss.  One of the diamonds Alex Franckel re-cut to improve both the make and clarity grade, was a 32 carat D VS2 Round Brilliant diamond.  The finished diamond weighed over 30 carats with a substantially improved make and grade, improved from D SI1 to D Flawless.  This diamond sold for several $million.

Alex Franckel has been a member of the New York Diamond Dealers Club for 57 years and was formerly in charge of rough diamonds at Zale Corp., the world's largest buyer of rough diamonds and seller of polished diamonds.  While at Zale, Alex Franckel was responsible for manufacturing diamonds worth $20 million per year and was in charge of cutting the Zale "Light of Peace", the 14th largest diamond in the world weighing 434.6 carats.  When the rough diamond was purchased, a large article about the Zale "Light of Peace" was published with a photograph of the rough diamond on page 1 of the New York Times. 

The rough diamond produced 13 diamonds weighing a total of 172.46 carats, the largest of which is the "Light of Peace", a 130.27 carat D VVS1 Pear Shape diamond which, according to the New York Times, was sold in 1980 for a $6 million profit.  Alex Franckel has been featured on TV, together with Morris Zale in the New York Times and many other newspapers and magazines as one of the foremost diamond cutters in the world.  Alex Franckel, was one of the first members (over 15 years - member # 01045) of Polygon, the largest network of wholesale diamond merchants and retail jewelers.

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