ociopia
Rough_Rock
- Joined
- Feb 9, 2003
- Messages
- 95
I just got engaged and was driving thru New York this weekend and thought, "Oh my gosh, I can finally go to Good Old Gold! I''ve been on their website for hours over the years, plus on this list off an on.
I''d done my homework and research and decided I wanted a square cut, around 1 carat, solitaire setting, flexible on color and clarity but not cut. Perhaps a Jubilee or a Square Princess of Hearts or maybe an Asscher or a Regent. All those different reports with the flashing diamond light.
I arrived and Jonathan''s lovely brother-in-law waiting on us. He brought out, all told, 8 diamonds and I looked at each of them in the different lights. Each was gorgeous, refractive, scintillated and my eyes popped with the trillions of lights produced. But oddly, I was not moved. I can''t explain why.
In probably what was a great salesman''s desperate hour, he brought out several trays of set diamonds. Most of the settings were just not to my taste, didn''t fit my hand, the diamond was not quite right. And I began to worry. I could see endless hours on the internet, diamonds from different places going back and forth through the mail. And now that I was confronted with reality, what on earth did I really want? It hit me for the first time that the internet is not "real time" viewing. Up close and personal, things are very different.
And then, he brought me The Ring. Naturally, it was absolutely not what I thought I''d want.
I bought an Old Mine round, M color, I1 clarity, set in an 18 carat white gold Beverly K setting. And the Miner is absolutely exquisite. I thought at first it must be a very faint canary. The color is gorgeous and the contrast between it and the 18 carat white gold and light "point" diamonds is fabulous and so surprising.
The Old Mine diamond itself is filled with life. It scintillated and sparkled and flashed fire as well as the new cut diamonds! I don''t get it at all but just feel fabulously fortunate. I''e attached a photo they took at the store. I don''t see the photo in the preview - perhaps I don''t know quite how to do it!
Clementine
I''d done my homework and research and decided I wanted a square cut, around 1 carat, solitaire setting, flexible on color and clarity but not cut. Perhaps a Jubilee or a Square Princess of Hearts or maybe an Asscher or a Regent. All those different reports with the flashing diamond light.
I arrived and Jonathan''s lovely brother-in-law waiting on us. He brought out, all told, 8 diamonds and I looked at each of them in the different lights. Each was gorgeous, refractive, scintillated and my eyes popped with the trillions of lights produced. But oddly, I was not moved. I can''t explain why.
In probably what was a great salesman''s desperate hour, he brought out several trays of set diamonds. Most of the settings were just not to my taste, didn''t fit my hand, the diamond was not quite right. And I began to worry. I could see endless hours on the internet, diamonds from different places going back and forth through the mail. And now that I was confronted with reality, what on earth did I really want? It hit me for the first time that the internet is not "real time" viewing. Up close and personal, things are very different.
And then, he brought me The Ring. Naturally, it was absolutely not what I thought I''d want.
I bought an Old Mine round, M color, I1 clarity, set in an 18 carat white gold Beverly K setting. And the Miner is absolutely exquisite. I thought at first it must be a very faint canary. The color is gorgeous and the contrast between it and the 18 carat white gold and light "point" diamonds is fabulous and so surprising.
The Old Mine diamond itself is filled with life. It scintillated and sparkled and flashed fire as well as the new cut diamonds! I don''t get it at all but just feel fabulously fortunate. I''e attached a photo they took at the store. I don''t see the photo in the preview - perhaps I don''t know quite how to do it!
Clementine
300x240.png)