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Colored Diamond Melee?

TruLuv858

TruLuv858

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Hi All,

What is more expensive, pink, yellow, or blue diamond melee? I am assuming yellow is the least? It seems pink diamond melee has really sky rocketed lately, and is difficult to procure...anyone have any experience with Blue Diamonds? I am interested in adding a few colored diamonds to my reset (specifically the gallery.) When I say a few, I am only talking about 2-4 total... I haven't really seen many rings with blue diamonds, so I was curious... TIA!
 
This is a consumer board. For price quotes, why don't you contact jewelers that offer these diamonds, and ask them?
 
I believe natural untreated blue diamond melee would be the most expensive. Treated blues, however, are easily available and would probably be cheapest or comparable to yellows.
 
I imagine that "the bench" who is creating the new mounting can source quality melee more readily than you can do on your own. But you might like to check out the inventories (and prices) at AfricaGems and Leibish. Leibish, however, does not carry any treated diamonds, and for your purposes, irradiated/HTHP blues would pack the most punch for the least amount of money; finding sufficiently saturated, natural stones in that size strikes me as being a challenge.

To get you started, AfricaGems is listing "color-enhanced" blue, precision cut diamonds at a starting price of $14 each; similar aqua- colored ones begin at $16
http://www.africagems.com/calibrated-blue-enhanced-diamonds.html
http://www.africagems.com/calibrated-aqua-blue-enhanced-diamonds.html
 
P.S. AfricaGems also offers good quality,natural sapphires (and Chatham sapphires) in melee sizes
http://www.africagems.com/calibrated-blue-sapphire-round-diamond-aaa.html
Think you might actually like the true, sapphire blue more than the blue that's typical of treated diamonds.

Whichever way you're leaning, do seek to see the little stones before they are set, lest you be disappointed.
 
Thanks all, I recognize this is a "consumer board"...I wasn't interested in procuring these myself, I would leave it up to the jeweler I am working with...however, I just thought I would ask for some perperspective from those that have incorporated these stones in any of their jewelry, and had actual experience.

I do agree, with some of you that blue diamonds would be the most expensive... you don't hear about them much around here.

Thanks again for answering :wavey:
 
If judging the same level of saturation (fancy intense to compared to fancy intense, fancy light to compared to fancy light) and they are untreated, the pricing structure is as follows: blue > pink > yellow.
 
I agree with Chrono on pricing.
It's important to point out that there are indeed treated blue and yellow melee, there's no viable treatment for pink
 
Chrono|1416231775|3785065 said:
If judging the same level of saturation (fancy intense to compared to fancy intense, fancy light to compared to fancy light) and they are untreated, the pricing structure is as follows: blue > pink > yellow.
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Chrono and RockDiamond- Thank you, this is what I was assuming and appreciate the confirmation.

RD- I didn't know that pink couldn't be treated? Very good to know!
 
Good point Chrono
We don't deal in HPHT- there are larger HPHT pinks but I don't believe there are HPHT melee.
In discussions with friends who sell irradiated blue melee I have learned that there's no irradiated pink melee- and the ones on the market are coated which is unstable and not very pretty
 
Hi Chrono,
Thanks for the links.
I did some more checking, and I stand corrected.
There are melee that are first HPHT and then irradiated.
 
Isn't it crazy trying to keep up with the latest treatments these days? :wacko:
 
True that Chrono!!-Thankfully we have stayed the course and never gone in the treated direction, or my head might expode :boohoo:
 
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