My mom and I went jewelry shopping at the LA jewelry mart last week. We came across this beautiful tanzanite ring and I convinced my mom to purchase it for herself as a 20th year wedding anniversary present to herself.
(My dad doesn''t know about it yet.
) I was wondering if we did a good job with negotiating the price. The center stone is a 5.61ct tazanite, oval-shaped. It''s this beautiful purple-blue color and whenever we angle the stone, we see these red/magenta? and purply? flashes. The stone is completely eye clean and we couldn''t find any visible inclusions with a loupe. The tanzanite is surrounded by 1.95tcw of F/VS1 diamonds consisting of rounds, princesses and marquise. The carat weight of the diamonds range from 0.10 to 0.18. It kinda looks like a very pretty oval shaped flower. (And a very sparkly one at that.
Hehehe.) The setting is 18kt white gold. We paid $6300. Does that sound right for this type of piece? If it helps, the jeweller told us that it is a very high quality tanzanite. I think we did well on the price but my mom is not so sure.
Can someone tell me how you can distinguish it''s a high quality stone? What is the price difference between an okay tanzanite and a very quality one at this carat weight? And did we get a good deal?
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