Which CBI 0.5-E-VS1?

[OoohShiny]

Great news!

Have you seen it yet in person? If not, you should have them get the original stone out for a side-by-side comparison

Hopefully they will be a convert to Super Ideal cut benefits!

 

[Paul-Antwerp]

Indeed I did! It was unfortunately the only one of the 4 my jeweler could get their hands on and was in Antwerpen, the others were reserved for the American market. Not sure what was up with that but considering they opened up a trade account with CBI specifically on my request (which took multiple weeks/months) I´m not going to be too picky neither (not that I have personal preferences anyways so any would do). If you look at my post history you´ll find a long thread with info about my journey when I bought their subpar inhouse diamond so I was lucky (or persuasive enough) to convince them to do business with Infinity Diamonds directly.

Hello @Aimyr , our vetting process for new accounts does take time. Some of this revolves around KYC and anti-money-laundering regulations specific to diamond-businesses in Antwerp. In this case, our Antwerp team was moved by your jeweler's desire to serve you, even lacking a formal relationship with our company. Given the situation, it was only practical to offer inventory that had not been exported out of Europe.

If the relationship goes further, it will open transit/insurance channels for diamonds in USA to come to your country. In this case, there was an enthusiastic desire to serve you - cheers to your jeweler - and our organization worked together to make that possible.

Live long,

 

[Aimyr]

Hello @Aimyr , our vetting process for new accounts does take time. Some of this revolves around KYC and anti-money-laundering regulations specific to diamond-businesses in Antwerp. In this case, our Antwerp team was moved by your jeweler's desire to serve you, even lacking a formal relationship with our company. Given the situation, it was only practical to offer inventory that had not been exported out of Europe.

If the relationship goes further, it will open transit/insurance channels for diamonds in USA to come to your country. In this case, there was an enthusiastic desire to serve you - cheers to your jeweler - and our organization worked together to make that possible.

Live long,

Hi Paul, thanks a lot for clarifying, that makes a lot of sense. I hope I didn´t come across as overly pushy or unthankful, it´ll definitely be worth the wait! I know that everyone went above and beyond what is the usual way of things and I´m super grateful that everyone involved was so accomodating!

As a Belgian myself (who moved abroad 7 years ago) there´s also a sense of pride involved!
Bedankt!

 

[Aimyr]

I picked up the ring yesterday and surprised my fiancé with it and she couldn´t be happier! It´s absolutely perfect, there´s not a thing we´d want to change! That concludes the journey! 6 months of constant diamond research and many back and forths between my jeweler but it was totally worth every second! The results are absolutely stunning. I tried to capture how sparkly it is in pictures or videos but it´s impossible, you really have to see it with your own eyes!

Even the jeweler admitted to its sparkliness and gave me another ring (exact same model) with a normal diamond in it to compare to and you can really tell the difference. Prior to seeing the ring I was quite unimpressed with diamond rings in general, I thought they looked quite dead but now that we have the CBI... Oh boy! I just couldn´t stop smiling. Even the smallest movement creates so many colored sparkles!

Thank you everyone who took the time to respond to my different threads I posted and thanks for the wealth of information around here! Thanks again @Paul-Antwerp & team, we are extremely pleased with the quality and appreciate your efforts of getting us this diamond!

Here´s a picture from my phone but my phone is unfortunately pretty crap at focussing on close-up pictures It doesn´t do it any justice but I figured you´d want to see it anyhow!

 

[OoohShiny]

Congratulations!

I'm glad you are both pleased with it, and that you had the opportunity to see the difference against a 'normal' diamond!

Hopefully the jeweller might take more of an interest in Cut now lol

 

[TreeScientist]

Beautiful diamond and ring, as is to be expected from CBI. It is very nicely proportioned on your finger. I'm glad you're satisfied with it.

 

[egemnoel]

Congratulation Aimyr, this has to be the best thread yet! Exactly what I love about CBI putting the diamond aside (I know how crazy that sounds) they will bend over backwards to do their best for every client. My dealings with HPD/CBI is completely 100% stress free and nothing to worry about. Actually I had one worry to be honest, was Wink from HPD going to send me the little square chocolates second time around

 

[ac117]

It's beautiful, congratulations!!