Can you recommend a Princess Cut for me?

[raph_b]

I''m looking for a Princess Cut diamond and have a budget of roughly $3k-$3.5k

I''d like to get the best cut possible and colour and clarity arent as important, but I would like to go at least I for colour and SI1 for clarity.

I''ve found a few altenatives so far but was wondering if anyone here could be kind enough to use their expertise to find me any suggestions?

I''ve done the search on here but have found it hard to distinguish as there are so many out there!

Thanks very much to everyone for all the help so far!

 

[Lorelei]

Date: 7/16/2008 3:54:15 PM
Author:raph_b
I''m looking for a Princess Cut diamond and have a budget of roughly $3k-$3.5k

I''d like to get the best cut possible and colour and clarity arent as important, but I would like to go at least I for colour and SI1 for clarity.

I''ve found a few altenatives so far but was wondering if anyone here could be kind enough to use their expertise to find me any suggestions?

I''ve done the search on here but have found it hard to distinguish as there are so many out there!

Thanks very much to everyone for all the help so far!

Hi raph!

Had a quick look, here are some nice ones you could consider -


http://www.goodoldgold.com/diamond/3901/

High clarity, but going with cut - http://www.whiteflash.com/aca_princess/A-Cut-Above-Princess-cut-diamond-664431.htm#

SI clarity, as with all SI, make sure it is eyeclean to your standards if interested -

http://www.niceice.com/certcopies2007/ags0008841802/index.htm

http://www.goodoldgold.com/diamond/3955/

Ask WF for their opinion on this one SI2 - http://www.whiteflash.com/princess/Princess-cut-diamond-1134460.htm#

 

[jstarfireb]

1.02 H SI1
1.00 H SI1 - I like the look of this one better, but it''s more off-square

Any way you can push the budget up a tad (maybe put it in a plain white gold setting)? Because I don''t see a lot of stones in the 3-3.5k range, but there are some really nice ones around 4k that I can recommend:

1.065 H SI1 X-factor
1.035 I SI1 ACA
0.986 G VS1 - looks to be a good deal because it has 1ct size without the 1ct price jump! You usually don''t see a 1ct G princess for this low...the caveat is that symmetry is only good, not VG or ex...