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I have pasted in some comments I made on another thread and the numbers - now I have the ring I should move across to "show me the ring"- pics to follow

Hi,

We got one, finally.... now, we did the "wrong" thing (price wise) and went to Tiffany’s and got to see about 10 or so stones in our desired range and WOW can you tell the difference looking in the flesh! I am so pleased I did not buy blind on the numbers. We originally planned to buy an EC over the net but saw and fell in love with a 1.17ct round brilliant.
We did probably pay (at least) a thousand or so over the top but it's a delicious, classic ring and platinum setting with the diamond number and weight perfectly engraved in the inside of the setting... The diamond shows perfect symmetric arrows in very low light (almost covered up) and huge fire and whole gambit of colours in sunlight. Here is the numbers and I am trying to work out how to do a photo.

1.17ct
VVS2 (two tiny pinpoints nice and tucked away)
F Colour
6.83 - 6.87 - 4.16
Depth - 60.7%
Table - 56%
Crown Angle - 33.8
Girdle - Medium
Precision, Polish, Symmetry - All Excellent
Pavilion 43.2%

I think the numbers look pretty good but even if they could be better, I am not sure the stone would look any better - how could it, this is the stone that caught our emotion.

Thanks for the help and advice I received on this forum. The research I did was invaluable because I could talk and understand the language and where the levers were to pull to maximise value for money and get to see the stones I really wanted to see (based on the numbers) in the flesh.

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I too did all the "right" things and fully intended to avoid the Tiffany brand "fee" but when you get there you just gotta go with the whole experience and if its a 15% price uplift what the hey it'll always have the special feelings around the whole buying experience. You do get a whole pile of Tiffany pedagree papers an addition to and more than just the GIA cert and you KNOW they gotta make sure what they sell you is the real deal - they can't take a chance on selling inferior quality stones because they make such a big deal of the sorts of stones they will and will not accept. Specifically they seem to do a whole load of additional sarin checks and inclusion "type" checks before accpeting the stones in and then an after setting inspection to make sure its all still good. It could be hype but I am very happy with my purchase. I paid about $5000 MORE than I could have got the STONE ONLY for at this quality, so I look at it like this. I paid $5000 for a Tiffany Platinum Setting with the diamond resistration and weight engraved inside the setting and the Tiffany brand engraved in and a nice little box. Also you get a white BAGEL bag to walk out of the shop with rather than the blue "I just bought a silver chain" bag! What would it have cost me to have a loose stone set like this about $2000 - SO I paid $3000 over the top for the brand and the assurance, and I got to see a whole load of different stones in the flesh - I am cool with that.

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