Advice - Princess Cut Diamond

[Tiggs]

Hi,

I''ve been searching for a princess cut diamond for awhile and think I''ve finally made a decision. I''d be grateful if you could look over the specs and let me know what you think of this one.

Shape: Princess
Carat Weight: 0.57
Cut: Ideal
Color: H
Clarity: VS1
Certificate: GIA

Depth: 72.5%
Table: 71.0%
Polish: Excellent
Symmetry: Very Good
Girdle: Slightly thick to thick
Cutlet: None
Fluorescence: None
Measurements: 4.49*4.47*3.24
Ratio: 1.00

What do you think? Thanks so much for any advice in advance.

 

[jstarfireb]

Welcome to PS! It''s very difficult to judge how a princess cut stone will look by numbers alone. Can you get a detailed picture, idealscope, or ASET image? I''m a little suspicious of the cut grading; who is calling it "ideal?" The only lab that has a cut grade for princesses is AGS, which IIRC would not grade this stone as ideal because it does not have ideal symmetry, only very good. But your stone was graded by GIA. The depth and table look OK, but as I mentioned, you can''t tell much from that. The girdle is a little thick for my tastes, which is bad because it''s wasted carat weight, but not too terrible because a thicker girdle will help protect against breakage. Finally, you can go a little lower in clarity (to an eye-clean SI1) if that will save you enough cash to get a larger stone! H color is a nice sweet spot for most people (I have an ideal cut I color princess though).

 

[Lorelei]

Welcome Tiggs!

Ask for detailed photographs of this diamond and an image such as ASET, otherwise we can't tell much at all by the numbers unfortunately.

 

[dbsdiamonds]

Hi there,

At under $1100 that H VS1 is definitely a keeper. I will agree with L in the sense that the term "ideal" gets tossed around way too loosely. However, in this particular .57ct case, the statistics are superiorly tight and the only improvement on a GIA cert would to make it ex/ex instead of ex/vg. Trust you won''t need all that hyped up instrument stuff on this gem.

The owner of that stone is a top notch supplier to the trade on princesses. I''ve received many many gems from them over the 10 years I''ve been online and I can easily endorse that stone.

Marty
www.dbsdiamonds.com

 

[Tiggs]

Thanks so much for your help and advice. I think my searching has finally ended

I''ll see if I can get some of the detailed reports on the stone and if I can I''ll post them here but if not I''ll take dbsdiamonds advice and go for it. Thanks again and if there is anyone else with thoughts/advice on this stone I''d still love to hear it.