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Rough_Rock
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- Apr 30, 2013
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Hello Everyone! Longtime lurker, first post. I've educated myself the best I've could so I can be coherent to anyone who may help me 
I've been searching for months for the correct center diamond for the ER I'm crafting for my soon to be fiancee. She wants a 1 carat cushion, no changing that. So I researched and educated myself about trying to find the best diamond within my budget of $6500 (total budget is $9000 but $2500 has already gone to a custom setting). As many of you know, finding a good looking cushion is trying to find a needle in a haystack. I've seen many in person and I can honestly say I do like the square 8 main ones that have a more splintery appearance like Tiffany's Novo, but they are very rare. I was getting extremely frustrated because so many have that slushy crushed ice look that makes it look so dull because of light leakage. So I figured to use the best cut cushions out there as a benchmark to what I should be looking for and found BG Signature cushion to be one of the best to use as a standard (GOG Brellia is excluded because H&A in cushion just looks too weird even though it has optimum light performance. It just looks too much like a round brilliant)
Currently BG has one Signature cushion left in their inventory but the rep told me they're getting more. Anyways, I figure since this is a BG signature diamond it must be an excellent looking diamond. However, I know there is a premium you pay for buying one of his Signature diamonds so I tried to find a diamond pretty close to his on JA to save money. And I think I found one, but there is a small difference in their ASET images I need help with. Firstly the specs for BG's are 1.073 carat, J color, VVS2. It's marketed as a branded cushion since AGS has assigned an Ideal cut to it. The one on JA I found is also a J color, VS1, 1.01 carat and with almost the same exact LxW dimensions and plot facet. (8 thin mains with an additional star pattern right in the center, see below). Given all details are almost identical to each of these diamonds, the only thing I find different is BG ASET image looks just slightly better. But VERY slightly. As you can see BG diamond ASET image has more red in its corners. And that's pretty much the only difference. Question: Does this warrant a $2000 price difference or do you think the brilliance between the two will be pretty much the same (also considering the prongs may hide some brilliance in such said corners anyway)? If so, I figure the JA one is a good deal. Opinions please!
I've been searching for months for the correct center diamond for the ER I'm crafting for my soon to be fiancee. She wants a 1 carat cushion, no changing that. So I researched and educated myself about trying to find the best diamond within my budget of $6500 (total budget is $9000 but $2500 has already gone to a custom setting). As many of you know, finding a good looking cushion is trying to find a needle in a haystack. I've seen many in person and I can honestly say I do like the square 8 main ones that have a more splintery appearance like Tiffany's Novo, but they are very rare. I was getting extremely frustrated because so many have that slushy crushed ice look that makes it look so dull because of light leakage. So I figured to use the best cut cushions out there as a benchmark to what I should be looking for and found BG Signature cushion to be one of the best to use as a standard (GOG Brellia is excluded because H&A in cushion just looks too weird even though it has optimum light performance. It just looks too much like a round brilliant)
Currently BG has one Signature cushion left in their inventory but the rep told me they're getting more. Anyways, I figure since this is a BG signature diamond it must be an excellent looking diamond. However, I know there is a premium you pay for buying one of his Signature diamonds so I tried to find a diamond pretty close to his on JA to save money. And I think I found one, but there is a small difference in their ASET images I need help with. Firstly the specs for BG's are 1.073 carat, J color, VVS2. It's marketed as a branded cushion since AGS has assigned an Ideal cut to it. The one on JA I found is also a J color, VS1, 1.01 carat and with almost the same exact LxW dimensions and plot facet. (8 thin mains with an additional star pattern right in the center, see below). Given all details are almost identical to each of these diamonds, the only thing I find different is BG ASET image looks just slightly better. But VERY slightly. As you can see BG diamond ASET image has more red in its corners. And that's pretty much the only difference. Question: Does this warrant a $2000 price difference or do you think the brilliance between the two will be pretty much the same (also considering the prongs may hide some brilliance in such said corners anyway)? If so, I figure the JA one is a good deal. Opinions please!
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