DoubleTrouble
Rough_Rock
- Joined
- Feb 28, 2023
- Messages
- 13
Hi ~ This is actually the first time I have ever posted on any forum on any site (I’ve always been a bit intimidated before) but reading through a bunch of the posts on this website you all seem like such a warm and kind bunch of people, I felt like I could…
I wish I had found you before I made what I fear might be a really sad decision on the center stone for my engagement ring.
TL : DR
What do you think of the stone in the video? Did I make a mistake? Is the bow tie shape in the center ugly and prominent?
- - - - - -
The (very) long version:
In the spirit of the posts I’ve read so far I’ll give a little context on how I ended up where I am now (but also try to summarize what has been an insane 4 month intensive immersion in all things diamond and ering, because I don’t want to bore you with all the endless details). Basically I came into this whole thing a complete novice, not really knowing anything about diamonds, but being a perfectionist who is always happy to learn about new things, so once my partner and I decided to get married I was excited to learn everything I could to find my perfect ring.
I knew I wanted an antique cushion diamond, and also knew that I wanted to find a ring that I would really love but that would also be something my partner liked and might have chosen if he had gone out to do the searching himself (we knew immediately that this was something I should do the looking for, partly because I really enjoy this kind of stuff, and partly because I’m so particular about what I like, but haven’t ever thought about an ering before, so given that I had no idea what I wanted, it would have been practically impossible for him to find the perfect thing on his own).
Over the course of my research I pulled thousands of pictures of rings, and there was one my partner really liked (he had a surprisingly strong “no” reaction to a giant number of rings which surprised me because this isn’t something he would normally be very interested in - I saw some of you guys have had similar experiences with your partners ).
It’s a five stone, with the center stone an elongated antique cushion, with half moon sides, and bullets tapering into the band. The ring in the picture was made with a 4ct stone but I knew I wanted something in the 2ct range.
I looked and looked at stones online, but found out I would need the stone to be sourced by the jeweler as he doesn’t work with outside stones. He sourced a number for me to look at and I started to feel like maybe I was being too difficult and picky rejecting all the stones he showed me. We reviewed the exact specs of the stone I was looking for intending to have a stone custom cut, but I was a bit scared what I would I do if I didn’t like the way it turned out. (Specs were: elongated antique cushion with L/W Ratio ~1.35, with squared off shoulders, approximately 8.5 mm on the long edge, color ~F, clarity ~VS1, with the cutlet open but not too elongated). I got really interested in the different facet patterns of antique cushions (I’m including OMBs in that category very broadly) to try and give the most specific cutting direction possible to mimimize the chance of it turning out badly. I realized that when an antique cushion is elongated, many of them get a band of extremely visible facets showing up across the center (they can show up white or dark, but the facets are just very linear and obvious) - and I knew I didn’t want that in my stone… but I wasn’t sure if maybe all elongated antique cushions just have some form of that characteristic, and so I’d be looking for the most minimal version of it rather than finding a stone that didn’t have it at all.
Reeeally long story short, just before we initiated the custom cutting process, the jeweler got in touch and sent me a video of a stone he found and told me he thought it was perfectly what I was looking for and if it wasn’t what I was looking for then he really didn’t understand what it was I wanted. So… I went and saw it, brought my partner to see it, sent it to my godmother and my aunt who know a lot about diamonds, and everyone said they thought it was great and so I pulled the trigger and said yes! But when I look at it I do see a pretty strong half Maltese cross in the center, which extends out into a band across the middle at certain angles and I’m so so scared it’s ugly and I made a mistake and I’m going to regret it…
So after reading lots of threads on PriceScope about swapping out center stones and what kind of damage that might do to the setting, I realized maybe I should see what the experts on PS think of the stone first, so… here it is… (I can’t figure out how to post a video so I’ve attached some slightly blurry zoomed in stills , don’t know if they’re good enough to make an assessment, but…)
What do you think?
I wish I had found you before I made what I fear might be a really sad decision on the center stone for my engagement ring.
TL : DR
What do you think of the stone in the video? Did I make a mistake? Is the bow tie shape in the center ugly and prominent?
- - - - - -
The (very) long version:
In the spirit of the posts I’ve read so far I’ll give a little context on how I ended up where I am now (but also try to summarize what has been an insane 4 month intensive immersion in all things diamond and ering, because I don’t want to bore you with all the endless details). Basically I came into this whole thing a complete novice, not really knowing anything about diamonds, but being a perfectionist who is always happy to learn about new things, so once my partner and I decided to get married I was excited to learn everything I could to find my perfect ring.
I knew I wanted an antique cushion diamond, and also knew that I wanted to find a ring that I would really love but that would also be something my partner liked and might have chosen if he had gone out to do the searching himself (we knew immediately that this was something I should do the looking for, partly because I really enjoy this kind of stuff, and partly because I’m so particular about what I like, but haven’t ever thought about an ering before, so given that I had no idea what I wanted, it would have been practically impossible for him to find the perfect thing on his own).
Over the course of my research I pulled thousands of pictures of rings, and there was one my partner really liked (he had a surprisingly strong “no” reaction to a giant number of rings which surprised me because this isn’t something he would normally be very interested in - I saw some of you guys have had similar experiences with your partners ).
It’s a five stone, with the center stone an elongated antique cushion, with half moon sides, and bullets tapering into the band. The ring in the picture was made with a 4ct stone but I knew I wanted something in the 2ct range.
I looked and looked at stones online, but found out I would need the stone to be sourced by the jeweler as he doesn’t work with outside stones. He sourced a number for me to look at and I started to feel like maybe I was being too difficult and picky rejecting all the stones he showed me. We reviewed the exact specs of the stone I was looking for intending to have a stone custom cut, but I was a bit scared what I would I do if I didn’t like the way it turned out. (Specs were: elongated antique cushion with L/W Ratio ~1.35, with squared off shoulders, approximately 8.5 mm on the long edge, color ~F, clarity ~VS1, with the cutlet open but not too elongated). I got really interested in the different facet patterns of antique cushions (I’m including OMBs in that category very broadly) to try and give the most specific cutting direction possible to mimimize the chance of it turning out badly. I realized that when an antique cushion is elongated, many of them get a band of extremely visible facets showing up across the center (they can show up white or dark, but the facets are just very linear and obvious) - and I knew I didn’t want that in my stone… but I wasn’t sure if maybe all elongated antique cushions just have some form of that characteristic, and so I’d be looking for the most minimal version of it rather than finding a stone that didn’t have it at all.
Reeeally long story short, just before we initiated the custom cutting process, the jeweler got in touch and sent me a video of a stone he found and told me he thought it was perfectly what I was looking for and if it wasn’t what I was looking for then he really didn’t understand what it was I wanted. So… I went and saw it, brought my partner to see it, sent it to my godmother and my aunt who know a lot about diamonds, and everyone said they thought it was great and so I pulled the trigger and said yes! But when I look at it I do see a pretty strong half Maltese cross in the center, which extends out into a band across the middle at certain angles and I’m so so scared it’s ugly and I made a mistake and I’m going to regret it…
So after reading lots of threads on PriceScope about swapping out center stones and what kind of damage that might do to the setting, I realized maybe I should see what the experts on PS think of the stone first, so… here it is… (I can’t figure out how to post a video so I’ve attached some slightly blurry zoomed in stills , don’t know if they’re good enough to make an assessment, but…)
What do you think?
Attachments
Last edited:
300x240.png)