After Cut, what is YOUR most important C?

[Kaleigh]

Jennifer, that was very elequently stated!!

 

[bluedawg]

Date: 4/16/2005 9:30

4 AM
Author: Jennifer5973
It''s very personal but I think we all agree that when a stone is well cut, it is beautiful becasue the cut is most important. I honestly think 99.9% of the rings/stones I see here are beautiful, even if I might not choose a particular ring for myself.

ITA.

 

[valeria101]

Date: 4/16/2005 998 AM
Author: fire&ice
The prettiest looking stone in the largest size. So, cost = value in my eyes. I don''t get hung up on what the paper says - only that I am paying for the correct specs; what my eye finds pleasing.

Precisely. The Cs are only good to compare prices when shopping around. I like to be surprised by the good looks of some piece of jewelry assuming it is the maker''s task to achieve that together with good value.

 

[solange]

I agree with Fire and Ice as to size. I wanted the prettiest, largest stone I could get without tying up a fortune. I have stones in various colors and I ifind that they all look different in different lighting situations.

I now have a 4.10 I color, SI2 round, completely eye clean, excellent proportioned stone and I love it. The stone looks very white in most situations and a few jewelers who saw it guessed it was a G or H. One jeweler in the Diamond District commented on the stone and guessed the price at more than double what I paid. When he looked at it with a loupe of course he said it was worth much less but he said that without a loupe, it looked much more expensive than it was and that it was impossible to tell with the naked eye,

I also have an inherited European cut ring with three large stones totalilng totalling almost seven carats in a beautiful old setting. The colors of the stones range from K to about L or M. This ring sparkles like crazy and since I only wear it in the evening the stones look fabulous. I have had people come from across a room to see it.

Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder. Since diiamonds are not a good investment, clarity is not important to me as long as the stone is eye clean. I do not want to pay for what I cannot see. If a stone has a lot of life, color is a matter of taste.

 

[jellybean]

Hmm...I''m not sure what would be my next "c". I told myself that I would never buy a diamond lower than an H (since I already have 2 that color) yet my J/SI1 ideal round that I just got is my favorite.