Customer guide

How to find your diamond

Kove sells thousands of natural and lab-grown diamonds. This page covers the four ways customers find what they need: by stone ID, by certificate number, by carat, and by millimeter size with bench-jeweler tolerance. Pick the section that matches your need.

Replacing a stone in a setting? The mm-size search with ±0.10 / 0.15 / 0.20 mm tolerance is built specifically for this. Pick the shape, pick the size, the system finds the closest match.

1. Search by stone ID or certificate number

Use this when you already know the exact stone — for example, a stock ID a stylist sent you, or a certificate number printed on a GIA / IGI report.

Type the ID into the search field at the top of the site and press Enter. If the ID matches a single stone in our active inventory, you land directly on that stone’s detail page. No category picker, no listing.

E67269CA9A stock ID — opens the stone immediately.
LG768664912A certificate number — also opens the stone immediately.

If the ID matches nothing, the page shows the natural / lab-grown picker so you can refine the search.

2. Search by carat (default)

For most browsing, carat is the most useful filter. Pick a stone type (Natural or Lab-Grown), then drag the carat range slider to the weight you want — say 1.00 to 1.50 ct — and combine it with shape, color, clarity, and cut.

Carat is the universal weight unit for diamonds. It does not depend on shape: a 1 ct round and a 1 ct oval weigh the same but have different millimeter dimensions.

3. Search by exact size in millimeters (for replacements)

Use this when you have a setting that needs a specific stone — a ring with a missing center stone, a pair of earrings where one needs replacing, or a bespoke design with a fixed dimension. Carat is not enough here: a 6.5 mm round and a 6 mm round can have very different carat weights, but only one of them fits the prongs.

Pick a single shape in the filter (for example Round), then a "Search by size (mm)" panel appears. The chips are not a generic chart — they are the sizes we actually have in stock right now: round goes from 4.25 mm to 13 mm in 0.25 mm steps; oval / pear / marquise show length×width pairs (7×5, 8×6, 9×7 …); cushion, princess, emerald, asscher, radiant and heart each show their own real bucket list. Tap a chip to add it; tap again to remove.

For each chip you select the system runs a tolerance cascade — first within ±0.10 mm of your size (perfect bench-fit, no head adjustment), then ±0.15 mm if nothing matched, finally ±0.20 mm as the ceiling. The result page tells you which tier produced the match so you know how snug the fit is. Cushion is treated as one shape: cushion, cushion modified and cushion brilliant variants are all included automatically — you do not need to pick three chips.

One chip on, sort = price ascending: you see the cheapest stones at the exact size you picked. Multiple chips on: the search is the OR of all chips ("any of these sizes fits") — with price ascending the smaller sizes will dominate the top of the list because smaller stones are lighter and therefore cheaper. If you want to compare like-for-like, switch to "Carat ascending" or pick one chip at a time.

6.5 mm round, lab-grownReplacing a center stone in a 6.5 mm cathedral solitaire — pick Round, then 6.5 mm.
7×5 mm oval and 8×6 mm oval, naturalTwo acceptable sizes for a pendant rebuild — pick Oval, then both chips, then sort by carat ascending so the 7×5 stones do not crowd out the 8×6.

Power-user shortcut: you can also type the size directly into the search bar at the top of the site. "5 mm" or "5" jumps to round 5 mm. "7x5" or "7×5" jumps to oval/pear/marquise pairs at 7×5 mm. Both run the same ±0.30 mm tolerance.

4. Combining filters

All filter sections combine with AND: shape AND color AND clarity AND mm size. Inside one section, multiple choices combine with OR: clarity VVS1 or VVS2 are both shown.

In mm-mode the carat slider is dimmed and ignored — millimeter chips already describe the size precisely, and a carat range on top would either contradict ("3 mm AND 5 ct" matches nothing) or be redundant. Switch back to carat mode if you want the slider to do anything.

If you accidentally over-filter and see no results, use the "Reset filters" button at the bottom of the panel to start fresh.

Need help?

If you can’t find the stone you’re looking for, send us a message — we can search our supplier’s full live catalog for you, including stones not yet listed on the site.