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Shiny_Rock
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Well - the internet has talked, Rhino has listened!
Prototypes coming soon
https://www.instagram.com/p/BokDuXZHlKO/?taken-by=augustvintage
Although @Rhino - you may want to remove the comment by 'wagnerlima'... lol
Will you be doing larger than 1 carat?LOL I'm just now seeing this thread. Yes ... first prototypes should be in my hands next week and NO ... they will not be anywhere close to the price of earth grown.
Will you be doing larger than 1 carat?
Absolutely. The first two prototypes finished as a 1.76ct E VS2 AVR and a 1.51ct F VS2 AVC. I need to personally inspect for precision, proportions and light performance. Once I give the green light production starts for a skeleton inventory and we'll cut as demand is there. We will be focusing on 1.5xct+ for starters.
Absolutely. The first two prototypes finished as a 1.76ct E VS2 AVR and a 1.51ct F VS2 AVC. I need to personally inspect for precision, proportions and light performance. Once I give the green light production starts for a skeleton inventory and we'll cut as demand is there. We will be focusing on 1.5xct+ for starters.
Absolutely. The first two prototypes finished as a 1.76ct E VS2 AVR and a 1.51ct F VS2 AVC. I need to personally inspect for precision, proportions and light performance. Once I give the green light production starts for a skeleton inventory and we'll cut as demand is there. We will be focusing on 1.5xct+ for starters.
Looking forward to seeing them...Absolutely. The first two prototypes finished as a 1.76ct E VS2 AVR and a 1.51ct F VS2 AVC. I need to personally inspect for precision, proportions and light performance. Once I give the green light production starts for a skeleton inventory and we'll cut as demand is there. We will be focusing on 1.5xct+ for starters.
https://www.augustvintageinc.net/products/2-40ct-h-vs1-lab-grown-emerald-cut-diamondAugust Vintage released a video of a 2.4 ct lab created emerald cut, H/VS1, that he's selling for 9500. So that should give people a good idea of the prices a lab diamond can command. I tried to find it on the website, and it's not there, so maybe it sold already.
Perhaps they are aiming for some tint, on the basis that CZ etc. is usually D/E/colourless, therefore something that has tint must be diamond?? lolIf diamonds are lab grown, can't they make the color be better than an H? I just think about lab grown colored stones and the colors are, in other words,' too good to be true,' ideal.
IMHO, DeBeers and other diamond folks market these gems as 'diamonds' to justify the inflated mined diamond prices and to keep mined diamond prices at highly inflated prices but convincing the consumer that lab diamonds are worthy of a merely a small discount.
Say a Prada handbag sells for $10,000 in New York City at the Prada boutique. Next door a new handbag shop opens up and sells handbags that use the Prada name, design, leather, stitching etc, same workers etc.
So, will I be buying Lab diamonds? Nope. Perhaps when they eventually become mass produced and sell for CZ or Moissanite prices I would buy for costume jewelry.
So approximately (very roughly) half or less of what a natural mined diamond with similar specs would sell for.August Vintage released a video of a 2.4 ct lab created emerald cut, H/VS1, that he's selling for 9500. So that should give people a good idea of the prices a lab diamond can command. I tried to find it on the website, and it's not there, so maybe it sold already.
You might be best to copy&paste / move this post into the much longer thread on MMDs, rather than have it on a thread about a vendor's exciting new offerings.....