Hi all,
This is an xpost from the jewelry pieces forum (apologies if not allowed but this area seems to get more traffic). My fiance is having an ering made that will have a yellow gold split shank band around a 2.25ish carat pear shaped blue sapphire set in a stainless white sapphire pave halo. Any thoughts as to what their reasoning may be for using stainless rather than white gold or another white metal more commonly used in erings? Is this something unique to sapphires?
I have never heard of using stainless on a decent quality e-ring and don't understand why they are doing this for a custom design - I asked FI and he wasn't really sure, thought maybe a durability issue but that still seems odd since gold seems to hold up well enough for everyone else. The pave will be sapphire, not diamond in case that makes a difference? I don't think it's a price issue as we did not choose sapphire over diamond for cost reasons. I'm also concerned that the stainless will look dark or cheap - I've seen metal color (white gold, plat, palladium, etc) comparison pictures on this site but stainless was never on there. Any ideas/input would be greatly appreciated!
I would just ask the jeweler (and still may) but FI wants this to be as much of a surprise as possible and it seems that every time I speak w the jeweler I find out more than he would like about what's going on, and receiving input from me and fiance separately has caused some confusion in the past so I figured I'd ask here first.
This is an xpost from the jewelry pieces forum (apologies if not allowed but this area seems to get more traffic). My fiance is having an ering made that will have a yellow gold split shank band around a 2.25ish carat pear shaped blue sapphire set in a stainless white sapphire pave halo. Any thoughts as to what their reasoning may be for using stainless rather than white gold or another white metal more commonly used in erings? Is this something unique to sapphires?
I have never heard of using stainless on a decent quality e-ring and don't understand why they are doing this for a custom design - I asked FI and he wasn't really sure, thought maybe a durability issue but that still seems odd since gold seems to hold up well enough for everyone else. The pave will be sapphire, not diamond in case that makes a difference? I don't think it's a price issue as we did not choose sapphire over diamond for cost reasons. I'm also concerned that the stainless will look dark or cheap - I've seen metal color (white gold, plat, palladium, etc) comparison pictures on this site but stainless was never on there. Any ideas/input would be greatly appreciated!
I would just ask the jeweler (and still may) but FI wants this to be as much of a surprise as possible and it seems that every time I speak w the jeweler I find out more than he would like about what's going on, and receiving input from me and fiance separately has caused some confusion in the past so I figured I'd ask here first.