tara3056
Shiny_Rock
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- Jul 3, 2012
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I had a great experience working with Caren of DanielM to set a tsavorite I bought from Bruce Bridges. My camera does not take good pics, so I am just posting the ones Caren took, even though they, too, don't do *full* justice to the ring. The tsavorite is more green IRL and the diamonds are sparkly, not just white like in the pics.
It's a very substantial ring, both in terms of weight (a total of 7 grams! My Ritani Endless Love platinum e-ring, by comparison is 4 grams!) and finger coverage. It's actually bigger-looking than I anticipated, as this was my first time buying a loose stone and then setting it. All these lovely stones look so tiny when they are loose but they really get presence when set! I love it though, and I'm sure it will "shrink" within a couple of days
Details:
Stone: 1.38 carat cushion-cut Medium-Dark tsavorite w/ slight blueish hues; 6.99 x 5.69 mm
Ring: Platinum bezel-setting with milgrain and grooved shank
Melee: 0.01 / 1.3 mm diamonds; ~0.25 carat TCW
It's a very substantial ring, both in terms of weight (a total of 7 grams! My Ritani Endless Love platinum e-ring, by comparison is 4 grams!) and finger coverage. It's actually bigger-looking than I anticipated, as this was my first time buying a loose stone and then setting it. All these lovely stones look so tiny when they are loose but they really get presence when set! I love it though, and I'm sure it will "shrink" within a couple of days
Details:
Stone: 1.38 carat cushion-cut Medium-Dark tsavorite w/ slight blueish hues; 6.99 x 5.69 mm
Ring: Platinum bezel-setting with milgrain and grooved shank
Melee: 0.01 / 1.3 mm diamonds; ~0.25 carat TCW
IRL, there are NO yellowish tones to the tsav - in Caren's first pic, I see a little yellowish in there (along with more extinction than it has, too).
More pics!
) Honestly, they have such great responsiveness, and where else are you going to get to work with a jeweler on a custom design with back-and-forth discussion about certain elements, see multiple CADs, etc., and then get (relatively) great pricing? As a comparison, I found a lovely tsavorite ring at a locally-owned jeweler who specializes in colored stones (and it was lovely, I'll give them that)... but the TCW was less and it was in white gold instead of platinum. It was listed at $5500 but they offered me a discount because it'd been in stock for awhile... $4400. Let's just say it didn't have nearly the presence of this ring, and I spent approximately half.
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