Lovesparklesparle
Shiny_Rock
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Hi, first time poster. Sorry for long post but I'm at a loss.
Background: fiancé chose first engagement ring. H SI 0.7 centre diamond. Was gorgeous. But same design as a previous engagement.
Returned to Michael hill. I chose a ring/stone that day a very good EI1 0.8 carat centre stone graded by Gsi. Catalogued at $9200. Bought for $7500 Also lovely. They offered to customise it if I wanted so I did. I ordered it into a 6 prong setting in yellow gold. I was wary of not getting the same quality stone. He originally said it would be remade with a stone of similar specs, but I insisted I wanted this particular stone. He agreed and guarantees. And now I wait.
We waited an extra month for the ring to arrive. Unfortunately from the moment I received it I was very disappointed with the stone. It's performance and also I immediately noticed a large cloud inclusion near a prong which I didn't remember seeing.. It's the first thing I said, noticed, and I couldn't unsee it. Fiancé became very upset that I seemed unhappy especially after the first ring fail so I kept it to myself.
I became obsessed with how unsparkly the ring was
The GSI certificate is suspicious- it has a pic of the ring I customised- after the time of purchase -not just the diamond and with a Michael hill branding. Is this normal? It seems they could have put any diamond on any certificate with same grading, and there's no way to tell otherwise.
I was originally told it would be made in Australia.
I called up and was told it was at customs!? Was then told that this designer lives in the USA and only he can make it there.
My suspicion is that it took so long to receive because they were sourcing another stone with an E grading. The catalogue said H, but the line I was sold was I was lucky to come across such a high quality stone and it was unusual.
My stone has faint/medium fluorescence. In all the jewellery shops it look murky and actually quite ugly. surely this isn't something I would not have noticed. In other lighting it's mostly eye clean except for the big cloud near the prong. It is cut deep at about 64%.
My stone looks smaller, appears to have poorer patterning, and the original ring shows a black carbon inclusion, which mine does not? No evidence of large cloud.
My question is do you think it possible these are the same stones? Have I been duped? Is it common practice for jewellers to destroy one ring to have a stone remade into another, or do they just make it with a comparable one?
Advice needed what to do before I confront him again. Should another certificate exist for the original ring I could cite? Can I demand to see sales history to see if the original ring I saw was actually sold? What is procedure with provenance of diamonds in Michael hill Australia??? And can I trace it.
Thank you everyone for reading.
First 4 pics in Michael hill- Other pics in other stores looking for wedders.






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