Setting Dilema

[jewelryaddict]

Picture 1

 

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Picture 2

 

[jewelryaddict]

Picture with engagement ring

 

[jewelryaddict]

I am going to keep playing around with the camera to try to get some better shots. Does anyone have a Sony Digital? What do you put your settings on?
Anyway, here is the story. I inherited a .5 c. diamond VS(I think), color G ( it is uncertified) which my husband and I used to get married with 10 years ago. I recently graduated with my master's and my husband gifted me the 5 stone diamond band pictured. It is .20 c. each SI1, G-H in color for a tcw of 1.0. He never intended them to be worn together, but I like the sparkle of all of the diamonds together. As a potential gift to myself, I visited a custom jeweler and asked if he could custom make a ring to sit next to the five stone band to hold a solitaire. I originally thought that I wanted to get a plain band that would have the squared off shape to hold my .5c, which my husband said he would upgrade when I finished my doctorate. The jeweler said he could design an identical band holding four .20 diamonds in the same color and clarity leaving the middle stone out to peg some prongs to hold my center diamond. Thus it would be 1.8 carats of diamond with my .5 c setting up above the rest. He said he could do this for $1200 (good price I thought). I have two questions: (1) Do you think that will look too much for my .5c (eventually I am going to set a 1.25 pear) or (2) Should I keep the $1200 and put it away for the pear that will be headed my way in a few years. I lied, a third question. (3) Do you think a pear would look nice with it eventually?

Also, the reason that I really want to get my diamond reset is due to a bad jeweler. I bent some prongs on the setting that holds my solitaire. I went in to have them repaired and he asked about setting my stone into the platinum and getting rid of the prongs altogether. He told me he didn't know if it would even fit and would give me a call to tell me if it was possible. Poor communication, I thought that he was going to take my diamond out of the prongs and see if it could fit...thinking that I could decide when he contacted me. When he did contact me he said that it fit and it was done. Not happy.

 

[sevens one]

I think you should leave the .50 as is.
Wait for the upgrade; at that point try to match the upgrade setting to the 5 stone band.
Then you can use the .50 ring as a rhr.

 

[jewelryaddict]

I have been thinking that also. I just don''t think I have the patience to leave everything as is for two more years. Decisions, decisions.