My girlfriend left no doubt in my mind that the most important thing to here was SIZE! Taking that into consideration I devoted the last 2 weeks to becomming as much of a diamond expert as possible so that not only will she get a large diamond but also a brilliant, firey one. Since my budget was $10,000 for both the stone and the platinum setting, I made a choice to sacrifice on the color, hence the K.
Ya I know, you are probably cringing right now at a K-colored stone, but let me assure you, because this dimond is cut to such exact tolerences , you would be VERY hard pressed to tell this stone from an E-colored diamond face up! Thats right I said E, and if you don't believe me check out the pictures below.
The choice wasnt easy and it came down to the wire between this diamond and a 1.79/I/SI2 for a very similar price with near-ideal proportions. The deciding factor was that I was able to see actual pictures of the 1.85 diamond and it also went through the ringer as far as optical tests go and it scores off the charts as you will be able to see in the following pictures!
First off the stats:
Here are pictures showing the Hearts & Arrows, indicitive of a super ideal cut diamond.
Here is the brillancescope test, look at the Color-light and Scintillation scores! Can you say BLING BLING?
As mentioned above, this stone is nearly identical to what an E-colored looks face up. On the left is my K-colored, on the right is a nearly identical diamond but E-colored. See what I mean. Note that both diamonds have facets that are reflecting yellow, this is because the walls in the store are yellow, not due to the internal stone color.
Here is an overhead pic of the diamond sitting on a platinum setting. Hey, where did the yellow go?
Finally here is a side shot of the diamond, now you can finally start to see the yellow, but I swear ive seen I-colored diamonds that had the same tint, go figure.
I just wanted to take this time to thank both Tim from GoodOldGold.com and Mark from EngagementRingsDirect.com, both of you went above and beyond the call of duty as far as customer service goes, I highly recommend both stores.
Ya I know, you are probably cringing right now at a K-colored stone, but let me assure you, because this dimond is cut to such exact tolerences , you would be VERY hard pressed to tell this stone from an E-colored diamond face up! Thats right I said E, and if you don't believe me check out the pictures below.
The choice wasnt easy and it came down to the wire between this diamond and a 1.79/I/SI2 for a very similar price with near-ideal proportions. The deciding factor was that I was able to see actual pictures of the 1.85 diamond and it also went through the ringer as far as optical tests go and it scores off the charts as you will be able to see in the following pictures!
First off the stats:
- Lab:**********GIA
- Weight:*******1.85 ct
- Clarity:********VVS2
- Color:*********K
- Shape:********Round Brilliant
- Polish:*********Excellent
- Symmetry:*****Excellent H&A
- Proportions:****AGS Ideal Cut 000
- Fluorescence:***None
- Table:*********55.6%
- Depth:********61.0%
- Crown:********34.2*
- Pavillion:*******40.8*
- Isee2 Score:****9.7 (9.8 is the highest possible score)
Here are pictures showing the Hearts & Arrows, indicitive of a super ideal cut diamond.
Here is the brillancescope test, look at the Color-light and Scintillation scores! Can you say BLING BLING?
As mentioned above, this stone is nearly identical to what an E-colored looks face up. On the left is my K-colored, on the right is a nearly identical diamond but E-colored. See what I mean. Note that both diamonds have facets that are reflecting yellow, this is because the walls in the store are yellow, not due to the internal stone color.
Here is an overhead pic of the diamond sitting on a platinum setting. Hey, where did the yellow go?
Finally here is a side shot of the diamond, now you can finally start to see the yellow, but I swear ive seen I-colored diamonds that had the same tint, go figure.
I just wanted to take this time to thank both Tim from GoodOldGold.com and Mark from EngagementRingsDirect.com, both of you went above and beyond the call of duty as far as customer service goes, I highly recommend both stores.
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