shinebrightlikea
Rough_Rock
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- Apr 22, 2017
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Hello everyone,
After a good amount of deliberation, I finally pulled the trigger on a stone from WhiteFlash:
https://www.whiteflash.com/loose-diamonds/round-cut-loose-diamond-3797676.htm
It is a 1.788 F VS1 (AGS cert), with ideal proportions, fairly good IS and ASET images, and a HCA of 1.1. The cost was just over $25k.
I was so excited to see it in person, but was honestly pretty disappointed. I definitely don't have a very trained eye, but under 10x magnification, was able to spot the 3 crystals on the table very quickly - under 2 seconds. Is that appropriate? I thought a VS1 should be harder to spot the inclusion?
Anyway, I brought the stone into a jeweler I've been working with a bit, who showed me a GIA 1.80 F SI1, and side by side, my stone looked A TINY BIT darker (not really more yellow, but maybe a bit more grey). He did say that this is possible, but that it was correctly graded an F color. In terms of the inclusions, I could find his SI1 inclusions in about the same time I found on my stone. He then brought out another stone for comparison: 1.9 D SI1 (GIA cert) (HCA 1.9), which as you can see in the attachment has a lot of inclusions, but definitely had a much more "wow" factor due to larger size and much cleaner color. Of course, he tried to sell me the stone, with a price of $22.5k plus tax which comes out to just under $24k.
To complicate things further, another jeweler I've been working with (who I trust a bit more), found a comparable 1.8 F VS1 (GIA cert) (HCA 1.1), which is he offering me at 20.5K plus tax = $21,750. I haven't seen this stone in person yet, but plan to do so in 2 days, and was hoping from some advice from you all. Please give me some insight on my situation: am I over-reacting to the WF stone? Are either of the stones from my 2 jewelers worth making a change? Thank you all!
Quick recap: 1.788/F/VS1/HCA1.1/$25k from WF versus 1.9/D/SI1/HCA1.9/$24k versus 1.8/F/VS1/HCA1.1/$22k
After a good amount of deliberation, I finally pulled the trigger on a stone from WhiteFlash:
https://www.whiteflash.com/loose-diamonds/round-cut-loose-diamond-3797676.htm
It is a 1.788 F VS1 (AGS cert), with ideal proportions, fairly good IS and ASET images, and a HCA of 1.1. The cost was just over $25k.
I was so excited to see it in person, but was honestly pretty disappointed. I definitely don't have a very trained eye, but under 10x magnification, was able to spot the 3 crystals on the table very quickly - under 2 seconds. Is that appropriate? I thought a VS1 should be harder to spot the inclusion?
Anyway, I brought the stone into a jeweler I've been working with a bit, who showed me a GIA 1.80 F SI1, and side by side, my stone looked A TINY BIT darker (not really more yellow, but maybe a bit more grey). He did say that this is possible, but that it was correctly graded an F color. In terms of the inclusions, I could find his SI1 inclusions in about the same time I found on my stone. He then brought out another stone for comparison: 1.9 D SI1 (GIA cert) (HCA 1.9), which as you can see in the attachment has a lot of inclusions, but definitely had a much more "wow" factor due to larger size and much cleaner color. Of course, he tried to sell me the stone, with a price of $22.5k plus tax which comes out to just under $24k.
To complicate things further, another jeweler I've been working with (who I trust a bit more), found a comparable 1.8 F VS1 (GIA cert) (HCA 1.1), which is he offering me at 20.5K plus tax = $21,750. I haven't seen this stone in person yet, but plan to do so in 2 days, and was hoping from some advice from you all. Please give me some insight on my situation: am I over-reacting to the WF stone? Are either of the stones from my 2 jewelers worth making a change? Thank you all!
Quick recap: 1.788/F/VS1/HCA1.1/$25k from WF versus 1.9/D/SI1/HCA1.9/$24k versus 1.8/F/VS1/HCA1.1/$22k