Attached (I hope) are photos of the fruits of months of my lurking here, the ring "upgrade" that I surprised my wife with for Christmas. For now the WF pix will have to do until, as someone else put it, the sun returns to Michigan. Which should happen by May or so.
The diamond is a 1.663-ct AGS Round Ideal from Whiteflash''s Expert Selection:
Color: G
SI-1
Depth 60.6
Table 55.9
Crown angle 34.9
Pav angle 40.8
7.69 x 7.70 x 4.66
HCA 1.4
The setting is WF''s Crescendo Hand Engraved Half Bezel, Platinum.
I have to echo what lots of others have said, the info I learned from roaming around on PS was invaluable. I did A LOT of looking, at B&Ms, Costco special order & elsewhere, and just as I was about to drown in all the flood of info, I found this site which helped make sense (mostly) of things. Thanks all.
Whiteflash was great to work with, the only glitch being self-inflicted: my discovery, while the ring already was in production, that my "size sleuthing" had been based on bad info from my wife herself, and a ring that she wears on her middle finger.
A frantic call (and a few bucks) later, and the 7 that I ordered became the 6 that''s pictured, and it arrived in time.
As for presentation, I''m afraid it was a little more mundane than most of those I''ve read about. No ocean sunsets or 5-star restaurants; instead there were PJs and bathrobes and shredded Christmas wrap all over the floor and our 6 kids in various degrees of squabbling and squealing in delight over their own presents. And the ring wrapped in a piece of tissue, pushed up inside the third finger of a pair of leather gloves. Which truly did surprise my wife, because after 18 years of marriage it was entirely plausible that her husband''s Christmas gift to her would be....a pair of leather gloves.
The diamond is a 1.663-ct AGS Round Ideal from Whiteflash''s Expert Selection:
Color: G
SI-1
Depth 60.6
Table 55.9
Crown angle 34.9
Pav angle 40.8
7.69 x 7.70 x 4.66
HCA 1.4
The setting is WF''s Crescendo Hand Engraved Half Bezel, Platinum.
I have to echo what lots of others have said, the info I learned from roaming around on PS was invaluable. I did A LOT of looking, at B&Ms, Costco special order & elsewhere, and just as I was about to drown in all the flood of info, I found this site which helped make sense (mostly) of things. Thanks all.
Whiteflash was great to work with, the only glitch being self-inflicted: my discovery, while the ring already was in production, that my "size sleuthing" had been based on bad info from my wife herself, and a ring that she wears on her middle finger.
As for presentation, I''m afraid it was a little more mundane than most of those I''ve read about. No ocean sunsets or 5-star restaurants; instead there were PJs and bathrobes and shredded Christmas wrap all over the floor and our 6 kids in various degrees of squabbling and squealing in delight over their own presents. And the ring wrapped in a piece of tissue, pushed up inside the third finger of a pair of leather gloves. Which truly did surprise my wife, because after 18 years of marriage it was entirely plausible that her husband''s Christmas gift to her would be....a pair of leather gloves.
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