Can I buy tax-free diamonds from BAUNAT in Amsterdam?
The diamonds and diamond jewellery is purchased from BAUNAT in Amsterdam tax-free if your purchase is being sent to a country outside of the EU. In such cases you would pay local and import taxes upon receipt.
Another way of buying tax-free diamond jewellery is if you are a resident outside of the European Union and wish to execute a Personal Export.
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Jewellery in the spotlight
FAQ
10 Most asked questions
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- What ring size should I choose?
- What are the 4 C's, and what makes them important when buying diamonds?
- How can I maintain and protect my gold jewellery set with diamonds?
- What are the advantages of buying diamond jewellery online?
- What aspects do I need to consider when choosing between an 18kt gold ring and a platinum one?
General information
Jewellery
Quality
- What is the standard quality of BAUNAT jewellery?
- Why can BAUNAT offer the best price/quality for high quality jewels?
- Do you guarantee the quality of your jewels?
- What are the 4 C's, and what makes them important when buying diamonds?
- What is meant by the colour, purity and cut quality of a diamond?
Alloy
Our collections
Ring size
Purchasing online
Personalization
Maintain & protect
Other
- How do I know exactly what your jewellery will look like?
- Can I propose with the standard BAUNAT packaging?
- How are products packaged?
- Can I purchase a jewel in the showroom and take it immediately with me?
- What if a piece of jewellery is temporarily unavailable online?
- Where does the name ‘tennis bracelet’ come from?
- What are diamond necklaces?
- What are diamond pendants?
- What are diamond earrings?
Watches
Quality
- What does Swiss Made mean?
- What is the difference between a Manual and an Automatic watch?
- What is the difference between a Quartz and Mechanic watch?
- Where are the BAUNAT watches manufactured?
- What different types of watch bracelets are available?
- What are the characteristics of a 18kt gold watch bracelet?
- Are the watches water resistant?
- What is the difference between Sapphire and Mineral glass?
Collections
Personalisation
Diamonds
Diamond quality
- Do BAUNAT jewels come with certificates?
- What are Hearts and Arrows?
- What are the 4 C's, and what makes them important when buying diamonds?
- What diamonds does BAUNAT use?
- How to examine if a diamond is fake or real?
- What is the meaning of terms like Wesselton and Jager when you buy diamonds?
- What is meant by the colour, purity and cut quality of a diamond?
Diamond shapes and colours
Diamond value
Investing in diamonds
Origin of diamonds
- What is the origin of the word 'diamond?'
- Where does the origin of diamonds lie?
- What are conflict diamonds?
- What is the origin of the diamonds in Antwerp?
- What is the royal history of diamonds?
- What is the romantic history of diamonds?
- What is the journey from the diamond mine to the store?
- How to turn a rough diamond into a wonderful jewel?
Diamond and Antwerp
Other
Prices
Prices
Price/quality
Payments
Shipments
Shipment price
Delivery time
- Can I pick up my diamond jewellery in one of your showrooms?
- What is the delivery time of the BAUNAT jewels?
- Can you organize urgent deliveries if needed?
- When will my ordered jewellery be delivered?
- What happens if there is a delay in shipment?
- How do I track the status of my delivery?
- What if I did not pick up my ordered jewellery in a timely manner?
Security
Return policy
Other
Other
Showroom FAQ
- Is the advice issued in the Amsterdam showroom free of charge?
- Is the advice issued in the Antwerp showroom free of charge?
- Can I buy tax-free diamonds from BAUNAT in Antwerp?
- Can I buy tax-free diamonds from BAUNAT in Amsterdam?
- Is the BAUNAT showroom located in Amsterdam North, East, West or South?
Glossary
Glossary
- Emerald cut
- What is the baguette cut?
- What are the best investment diamonds?
- How can I measure the right ring size?
- How have diamond prices evolved?
- Where do diamonds come from?
- What does Very Light Yellow mean as a diamond term?
- What does Light Yellow mean as a diamond term?
- What does Low Cape mean as a diamond term?
- What does Cape mean as a diamond term?
- What does Top Cape mean as a diamond term?
- What does Crystal mean as a diamond term?
- What does Top Crystal mean as a diamond term?
- What does River mean as a diamond term?
- What does Jager mean as a diamond term?
- What does Wesselton mean as a diamond term?
- What does Top Wesselton mean as a diamond term?
- How are colours graded with colourless diamonds?
- What are the advantages of buying diamonds online?
- How can I care for and protect my jewellery?
- What does clarity mean when talking about diamonds?
- What does a diamond’s cut quality mean?
- What is meant by ‘colour’ when we talk about a colourless diamond?
- What is ‘loupe clean’?
- How has the price for diamonds evolved?
- What is the correct hand for my engagement ring?
- Where do diamonds come from?
- What is a moissanite?
- What is the girdle of a diamond?
- What is a culet?
- What is carat?
- Which diamond rings do men wear?
- What is a cathedral setting?
- What is a tension setting?
- What is a bezel setting?
- What is a channel setting?
- What is a pavé setting?
- What is a prong setting?
- What are the different possible ring settings?
- What is a hallmark?
- What’s the difference between platinum and white gold?
- What is white gold?
- What is platinum?
- What is a solitaire ring?
- How is a diamond cut?
- What is the Kimberley Process?
- What is the cabochon cut?
- What is the radiant cut?
- What is the emerald cut?
- What is the cushion cut?
- What is a brilliant?
- What is the Asscher cut?
- What is the marquise cut?
- What is an oval diamond?
- What is a pear diamond?
- What is a princess diamond?
- What is a fog test for diamonds?
- What is a blood diamond?
- What is a coloured diamond?
- What is a synthetic diamond?
- What is a diamond?
- Adamas
- What is the American Gem Society (AGS)?
- Why is alluvial soil important to the diamond industry?
- Asscher
- Bagagem
- Beers
- Bezel
- Blemish
- Blocks
- Blue Ground
- Boart
- Brilliance
- Brilliant cut
- Brute
- Calliper
- Canavieyras
- Cape
- Carat
- Carbon spots
- Cleavage
- Closed
- Clouds
- Colour Grading
- Crown
- Crown angle
- Culet
- Cut
- Depth
- Depth Percentage
- Diamond
- Diamond Cutting
- Diamond Gauge
- What is a diamond bourse?
- Dispersion
- Eye-Clean
- Facet
- Fancy Shape
- Feathers
- Finish
- Fluorescence
- What is the Gemological Institute of America (GIA)?
- Girdle
- Heart-shape Cut
- Inclusion
- Laser-Drill Holes
- Length-to-width ratio
- Marquise Cut
- Naturals
- Oval Cut
- Pavé
- Pavilion
- Pear Cut
- Platinum
- Point
- Polish
- Princess Cut
- Radiant Cut
- Ratio
- Ring sizer
- Round Cut
- Semi-mount
- Single-cut
- Solitaire Setting
- Step Cut
- Symmetry
- Table
- Table percentage
- Trilliant Cut
- Vena Amoris
