Difference in Melee color

[SylviaF]

Will I see a difference in color in an eternity band made with .06 ct, G stones vs E/F stones? Provided they are both ideal
Cut melee?

Thank you!

 

[MamaBee]

I just posted a reply but realized you’re trying to decide between f/g melee vs g melee in a band. No I don’t think you would see a difference. I have a Brian Gavin 3/4 eternity .15 point stones f/g next to a 2.03 carat G color engagement ring. I wear them on the same finger and you can’t tell a difference at all. I take horrible pics making my stones look dead or I would post a pic!

 

[Asscherhalo_lover]

Not likely, the smaller the stones are the harder it is to see a color difference in my experience. All you'll see is white light return with ideal stones. It would be to be extreme to be notable.

 

[LLJsmom]

Probably unlikely unless you have two bands next to each other and scrutinize carefully for a while.

 

[msop04]

Not in my opinion.

 

[scarsmum]

I don’t believe so.

 

[WinkHPD]

Add my vote for no. Perhaps from the side while loose, but once mounted, very unlikely.

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[SylviaF]

Thank you, everyone!

 

[yssie]

My understanding is that stones this small (outside of truly specialty-cut melee - which most, even stuff commonly called “ideal cut”, is not) are normally sold in parcels. The stones in those parcels aren’t graded by any authority, but are usually assigned comparative colour and clarity letter grades to distinguish between them - D/E VS, I/J SI. It is also my understanding that different vendors will use different consumer-facing grades to describe those parcels - the same batch of melee from the same manufacturer could be called I/J by one vendor, K/L by another, I/J/K by a third...

Not sure if this is the case here, but calling a parcel of 6pointers “G” colour with no range specified does suggest to me that it’s a vendor-assigned designation, which could make it difficult to compare with other vendors’ stuff.

All that said, if you were truly dealing with precision-cut GIA graded D/E 6pt stones and precision-cut GIA graded G 6pt stones, all you would see IRL once set is “bright white glittery dot”. So it really doesn’t matter, as everyone else has already said!

 

[WinkHPD]

I do not believe that GIA will grade such small diamonds. There was a time during the diamond investment craze when they would not grade anything less than half a carat as they were simply too busy. Of course they grade much smaller than half a carat now.

I had a D-IF 0.10 ct. with report a GIA report from back in the very early days of diamond grading reports.

One day a dealer came by my office and offered me stupid high money for it and I let it go. I think it was cut more like a lifeless lump of crystallized carbon than a well cut diamond, but it was the uniqueness of the small size and the grade that made me buy it in the first place. The report was so old that it was not even enclosed in plastic.

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