Alleyoop
Rough_Rock
- Joined
- Aug 10, 2007
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Newbie here.I just finished resetting my e-ring stone from an 1910 era estate style setting into a beautiful new WF Legato Sleek Line and thought I would write up my little journey as it might be helpful to others.The reason I had the stone reset is because the setting is just too frail to wear and I wanted to both save the stone and the setting to be restored in the future.I have had the prongs replaced 3 times (two times after having the stone pop off in my hand!) and now the shank, which was worn down to a tiny 1.1mm finally broke.
The original e-ring my husband gave to me 7 years ago had been in his family for a long time and of course had no papers or certificates.The first thing he did was propose, and as soon as I said yes, we took it in to be checked out (the stone was loose in the setting) and appraised so that it could be insured.The jeweler told us that the setting was pre-1910 platinum and the stone was a 2.10 ct OEC.The reason it was so loose is that it had a HUGE chip on the girdle which was dangerously close to cleaving the stone in two.She said that the stone had to be recut, without question.Of course, we let her send the stone in for cutting.I was told that they only cut from the girdle-down and so we lost only the tiniest amount of width, mostly loosing the ct weight off of the depth.The stone is now 2.04ct.Had I known then what I know now (after reading PS obsessively) I might have made a different decision about cutting the stone… but what is done is done.Technically, the stone then appraised as a RB, (wouldn''t it be Transistional??) here are the stats:
Shape- RB
Measurements- 8.15x8.13x5.25mm
Weight- 2.04
Clarity- VS2
Color- M/N
Girdle- Medium
Depth- 64.5%
Table- 51.6%
Sym, Polish- excellent
Flor- none
Cutlet- none (it had a big one prior to cutting)
Part of the reason of writing all this is to show how pretty/different a M/N stone can be.I have read so much on PS about “facing up” white, and if I didn’t see pics of my stone, then I might not be able to really know what that means.I wanted to show you some pictures from WF and some I have taken that I think really illustrate how different a colored stone can look in different lights, from different angels.I LOVE my diamond.I love its warmth, history, size, sparkle, everything about it.I love that I can pick it out of a line-up in a minute, which is unique and different.
WF did my stone proud and I am blown away by the new setting.I plan on someday putting a colored stone in the old setting and have it completely restored. Keep it alive, as it may be.Thanks for letting me share and here come a whole load of pics!
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