Sorry about my tardiness in posting this but better late than never!
My then-girlfriend (now my fiancee) and I loved the look of Tiffany's Novo but weren't thrilled with their prices so I set out build her a good replica. It turned out that Good Old Gold's Square Hearts & Arrows was exactly the same cut but they didn't offer a setting that matched well enough. Excel diamonds', however, looked almost exactly the same. The main differences (to keep them from getting sued by Tiffany) is that they used 9 pave stones on each side instead of 8 (my fiancee prefers 9 anyway -- it's a Jewish thing...) and the holes on the inner diameter of the ring. I couldn't find anyone else who had ordered one like this yet so I decided to be the guinea pig. I picked up a 1.2ct I VVS1 Sq H&A from GOG and sent it to Excel for setting in 14k white gold. All I can say is WOW! Their craftsmanship did not disappoint me at all -- and my fiancee can't stop looking at it! When all was said and done, I got twice the ring for the $$$ as I would have at Tiffany.
EDIT: This forum has to be the end-all, be-all of sucking when it comes to image linking and attachment. I'll try and attach on a reply post...
EDIT #2: Forget it. 100kb limit and I can't link to my PBase images? Not worth the trouble...
My then-girlfriend (now my fiancee) and I loved the look of Tiffany's Novo but weren't thrilled with their prices so I set out build her a good replica. It turned out that Good Old Gold's Square Hearts & Arrows was exactly the same cut but they didn't offer a setting that matched well enough. Excel diamonds', however, looked almost exactly the same. The main differences (to keep them from getting sued by Tiffany) is that they used 9 pave stones on each side instead of 8 (my fiancee prefers 9 anyway -- it's a Jewish thing...) and the holes on the inner diameter of the ring. I couldn't find anyone else who had ordered one like this yet so I decided to be the guinea pig. I picked up a 1.2ct I VVS1 Sq H&A from GOG and sent it to Excel for setting in 14k white gold. All I can say is WOW! Their craftsmanship did not disappoint me at all -- and my fiancee can't stop looking at it! When all was said and done, I got twice the ring for the $$$ as I would have at Tiffany.
EDIT: This forum has to be the end-all, be-all of sucking when it comes to image linking and attachment. I'll try and attach on a reply post...
EDIT #2: Forget it. 100kb limit and I can't link to my PBase images? Not worth the trouble...
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