Best setting for J colored diamond?

[MedicalBride12]

Hello Everyone, I have a question regarding which setting i should choose. I have a beautiful RB diamond set in a 14kt white gold solitaire setting. The diamond is graded as an EGL H, but its probably more like a J in my opinion. The color isn't very obvious, but does bother me in some lighting. I am thinking about switching to a different setting in order to downplay the slight color the diamond has. Which metal would make my diamond look "whiter"? I have heard different reviews, some say white gold is best, some say yellow gold is best. I was thinking 14kt or 18kt rose gold solitaire with platinum prongs. Any suggestions? Any information would be appreciated!

 

[diamondseeker2006]

If the prongs are white metal, I really don't think the shank color matters. I think you can make it with whatever metal you like best! But I do prefer the platinum prongs with almost any diamonds but yellow ones!

Halo settings prevent seeing tint from the side.

 

[GreenBling]

No scientific data to back up, just my personal experience that my F faces up less white after haloed. Still white but not icy anymore.

Perhaps the cut/angles etc may have something to do with how each diamond may perform best, whether in a halo or as a solitaire for instance?

 

[MedicalBride12]

Thanks for the comments. I will post the information that made me think about this topic, maybe someone agrees or disagrees with it? Not sure if they mean yellow gold setting + prongs? Got this from some website with education on buying diamonds.


A J color diamond can be a real bargain if set in a yellow gold mounting. The hint of color in a J diamond is only faint and can be noticed most clearly when placed beside a diamond of lets say D, E, or F color. Since most people wearing a diamond are not showing it on their hand next to another diamond, a J color diamond by itself can be a very beautiful stone. And since the pricing of a J-color stone is much more affordable, if you are looking to set the stone in a yellow-gold mounting, the color of the J stone is practically negated by the shine and tone of the yellow gold it is set in. Setting a J-color stone in a white gold or platinum mounting makes the faint yellow color of the diamond more noticeable.

 

[yssie]

Hello Everyone, I have a question regarding which setting i should choose. I have a beautiful RB diamond set in a 14kt white gold solitaire setting. The diamond is graded as an EGL H, but its probably more like a J in my opinion. The color isn't very obvious, but does bother me in some lighting. I am thinking about switching to a different setting in order to downplay the slight color the diamond has. Which metal would make my diamond look "whiter"? I have heard different reviews, some say white gold is best, some say yellow gold is best. I was thinking 14kt or 18kt rose gold solitaire with platinum prongs. Any suggestions? Any information would be appreciated!

If you want to downplay the colour I would agree that yellow gold is your best option - in as high karat as they can manage. In my experience the more difference there is between stone colour and setting colour the more it overwhelms nuances of stone colour, and all you see is the contrast between "white stone" and "yellow setting".

People differ on prongs - if your stone is well-cut I personally would do yellow prongs as well, to highlight the white/yellow differential with the stone itself as a backdrop. If your stone isn't particularly well-cut white or white-ish metal prongs might be the best option... How big is your stone? Different sizes can show colour differently, and different types of settings allow different views of the stone...

I have a J RB as well and I love the colour, so I like unplated wg to minimize the colour difference between stone and setting and create a uniformly "warm" look. Stone colour is such a personal thing


Interesting sidenote - Mike R. of RDG has talked about how he rhodium plates the insides of prongs when setting white stones in non-white metals, which is a brilliant solution to the problem of what to do when a stone isn't particularly well-cut or is cut such that it's liable to pick up and refract the colour of the prongs!

 

[diamondseeker2006]

You have to take things like that with a grain of salt. J stones are put in platinum/white gold settings here everyday and far outnumber any other metal. Wear the metal color that you like best!

 

[GreenBling]

Not an expert, just my own experience - i have an I set in a not very nicely done Tiffany 6 prongs before current double 4 prongs. I find the stone looks brighter and whiter face up now. As wrote in a separate post, i suspect the current setting being more open (vs old one that is more enclosed) let more light in from all directions thus allowing the stone to display its true beauty. My stone used to show tint in certain lighting, now very bright and colorful in almost any lighting which totally drown out any tint if there's any.

Also, i have seen J in white gold and i did not think that there was so much color that it should be in yellow gold. Having said that, i do find rose gold very romantic. But most important of all, what color gold do you like? And how is your diamond set?

 

[Charlize]

Wear the metal color that you like best!

I'm in the market for a I/J color diamond too and I'll definitely stick to my favourite metal color, which is white

Well, I had the opportunity to view some Ideal cut J color diamond solitaires, and I must say they face up pretty white! The slight tint was noticeable when viewed from the side, i.e. the pavilion. Much as I love the 4-prong setting - which allows maximum light to pass through the diamond, I may consider a 6-prong setting for a I/J stone to minimise exposure of the body color. Does this make sense?

 

[MedicalBride12]

Awesome, thanks everyone for the reply!! Its a 1.5ct RB set in a 4 prong Tiffany style knife edge setting. I do love the white gold, I just happened to be very intrigued by the idea of rose gold, especially if it would help maximize the brilliance of my diamond. However, if it doesn't make a difference at all then i might just stick with the white gold. Here are a few pictures in different lighting for reference. Some lighting it faces up very white, and in other lighting i can see noticeable color.

 

[arkieb1]

Hi the white gold in your photo makes this stone face white. Rose gold or gold with a pink hue will pick up and reflect more colour in this stone in my opinion, so you would probably notice more colour not less by comparison if you reset it. Yellow gold depends upon the body hue of the stone when you get to I/J stones some actually look less coloured and some look more coloured.

 

[MedicalBride12]

Hi the white gold in your photo makes this stone face white. Rose gold or gold with a pink hue will pick up and reflect more colour in this stone in my opinion, so you would probably notice more colour not less by comparison if you reset it. Yellow gold depends upon the body hue of the stone when you get to I/J stones some actually look less coloured and some look more coloured.

Good to know!! Thank you!

 

[CaratLover2]

Hi ya ...
I'm no expert ... but this is a really interesting topic!
Here's a thread that shows the effect a setting can have!
[URL='https://www.pricescope.com/community/threads/m-avc-three-stone-in-yellow-gold.175160/']https://www.pricescope.com/community/threads/m-avc-three-stone-in-yellow-gold.175160/[/URL] - I appreciate these are tinted stones ... but YG played up the tint, whereas WG made the stones look whiter!

I wear a G in yellow gold - and it has yellow gold prongs too - but looks bright AND white (to me). I'm not sure exactly when the colour of the metal would start to have an impact on the stone, although I do remember reading somewhere here that yellow gold activates the yellow receptors within the eye - and so things will look tinted regardless! I guess rose gold would do the same.

Do you really want rose/yellow gold - or is it just something you are thinking about to help mask the colour? Do you have you're heart set on a preference?

I think unplated WG will play up the "creamy" tones - which is fine if that is what you want, but I think with a J you could still have normal WG if that is what you really wanted.

I also have an L (AVC) set in platinum ... yes, the stone has a slight tint, but nothing that a lay person would easily recognise from a passing inspection. If anything, maybe it throws a bit of "grey" because it is set in platinum!

 

[chrono]

I have an L coloured AVC, previously set in WG. It looked very white in WG. I've since reset it in 18K yellow gold and it played up that tint very well, far better than I expected. Based on my one lone experience, I would advise you to stay with a white metal if you don't want to play up the warmth.