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I am very excited to tell you all that Wink Jones will be making a killer bracelet (and pendant) for me from this parcel of diamonds:
I approached Wink at the end of March about the possiblity of making me a bracelet of Fancy Yellows (since I had just purchased a Fancy Yellow Cushion ring from Tiffany). I originally asked for estimates on 10, 12, and 15 pointers. Talked it over with hubby and he suggested that since I already had .33s (10.5 TW) and .16s (6.5 TW) that I go with 20s. I balked at first because this inceased the estimate by a substantial amount. I gave my permission to proceed with this project at the beginning of June 2014.
Well I didn’t realize that I was asking for the “Holy Grail” per Melissa (Wink’s Product Coordinator). “You have no idea how hard it was to source a matching parcel of rounds. I contacted about four or five different sources including two that specialized in fancy yellows; everyone told me that if you were looking for radiants we'd have no problem. I was on the phone daily trying to find them. Everyone was telling me they’d be outrageously expensive (yes, we rejected the first $50K parcel). I swear people were telling me I was looking for the Holy Grail!”
I received an email 3 weeks later that Paul Slegers and Lieve Peeters (of Crafted by Infinity) had sourced a parcel of .20s Fancy Intense Yellow round diamonds (45 stones, 8.94 TW). I am extremely fortunate that they found these since rounds are hard to come by.
As far as the grading goes:
After consultation with Paul and Lieve and my own observation of the diamonds I have for you this is my considered opinion.
The diamonds are Fancy Intense Yellow with a very faint orange tone to them which I regard as a positive as it adds warmth to the stones when viewed face up, without being strong enough for me to grade it as a FIoY.
I inspected ten stones randomly chosen from the parcel and found them all to be SI1 or SI2. There were exactly five of each.
I am forever grateful to Wink, Paul, Lieve, and Melissa for what has occurred so far and look forwards to the completed bracelet and pendant. They should be beautiful.
p.s. The picture doesn't do them justice. They were more saturated when I saw them during Wink's Show-and-Tell Internet session.
I approached Wink at the end of March about the possiblity of making me a bracelet of Fancy Yellows (since I had just purchased a Fancy Yellow Cushion ring from Tiffany). I originally asked for estimates on 10, 12, and 15 pointers. Talked it over with hubby and he suggested that since I already had .33s (10.5 TW) and .16s (6.5 TW) that I go with 20s. I balked at first because this inceased the estimate by a substantial amount. I gave my permission to proceed with this project at the beginning of June 2014.
Well I didn’t realize that I was asking for the “Holy Grail” per Melissa (Wink’s Product Coordinator). “You have no idea how hard it was to source a matching parcel of rounds. I contacted about four or five different sources including two that specialized in fancy yellows; everyone told me that if you were looking for radiants we'd have no problem. I was on the phone daily trying to find them. Everyone was telling me they’d be outrageously expensive (yes, we rejected the first $50K parcel). I swear people were telling me I was looking for the Holy Grail!”
I received an email 3 weeks later that Paul Slegers and Lieve Peeters (of Crafted by Infinity) had sourced a parcel of .20s Fancy Intense Yellow round diamonds (45 stones, 8.94 TW). I am extremely fortunate that they found these since rounds are hard to come by.
As far as the grading goes:
After consultation with Paul and Lieve and my own observation of the diamonds I have for you this is my considered opinion.
The diamonds are Fancy Intense Yellow with a very faint orange tone to them which I regard as a positive as it adds warmth to the stones when viewed face up, without being strong enough for me to grade it as a FIoY.
I inspected ten stones randomly chosen from the parcel and found them all to be SI1 or SI2. There were exactly five of each.
I am forever grateful to Wink, Paul, Lieve, and Melissa for what has occurred so far and look forwards to the completed bracelet and pendant. They should be beautiful.
p.s. The picture doesn't do them justice. They were more saturated when I saw them during Wink's Show-and-Tell Internet session.
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