Final Decision between 5 Diamonds (Opinions Please!)

[omegga]

Hello Community!

I've been researching and reading hours over hours, about everything diamonds and engagement rings since the last 2 months, and i've narrowed it down to 5 rocks now that all match my requirements which are:

Carat: Between 1 and 1.2 (Finger size is 5.25 so this seems to be the "right" size)
Cut: Ideal to Signature (important!)
Clarity: VVS2 to VS1 (Checked "live" at store & iterally couldnt see any difference)
Colour: F,G,H (although due to minimal differences tendency to G or H)
Shape: Round
Fluorescence: None to Medium
Symmetry: Excellence
Price: Between 8k and 10k

Here are the stones (ordered by price, all cut Ideal), please give me your opinion and expert advice, and maybe those are not even the best ones, maybe you have another great stone as suggestion! Shop must be BlueNile because they have the one and only setting I really like!):

1.01 carat / F / VS1 / 8,175$
GIA http://www.bluenile.com/diamond-cert-viewer?cert_pid=LD02689299&cert_num=1

1.14 / H / VS1 / 8,430$
GIA http://www.bluenile.com/diamond-cert-viewer?cert_pid=LD02623015&cert_num=1

1.1 / G / VS1 / 9,175$
GIA http://www.bluenile.com/diamond-cert-viewer?cert_pid=LD02691050&cert_num=1

1.07 / G / VVS2 / 9,220$
GIA http://www.bluenile.com/diamond-cert-viewer?cert_pid=LD02543821&cert_num=1

1.01 / G / VVS2 / 9,443$
GIA http://www.bluenile.com/diamond-cert-viewer?cert_pid=LD02607481&cert_num=1

Thanks so much!
Omegga

 

[Fife]

What other people will notice about your diamond, even if they know nothing about diamonds, how well the diamond performs (cut), and how big the diamond is.

If reading off stats for bragging rights is more important to you than size, that's cool. For me, H / VS2 is the best balance to give room for the larger diamond. 99% of people who ask to look closer at your diamond will not be able to see the inclusions on a VS2. And unless your H is sitting right next to a D or E, they'll likely never know it's not pure white. Most won't even know or care about stats anyway.

What is the setting you're looking at?

 

[omegga]

cheers, exactly, for me cut is most important, with size coming in second, hence the best cut (ideal or signature is a must), when choosing the diamonds i checked each diamonds proportions with this tool (http://www.hollowaydiamonds.com.au/diamond-tutorial/holloway-cut-adviser/) and narrowed my selection down to the 5 listed. All of them have excellence performance cut wise (so it seems to me).

I wasnt able to check a VS2 diamond in the shop, hence not to sure if the inclusions might be visible with the bare eye, from what i've read this is not the case for VS1 and VVS2, which is why i stick to those.

this is the setting: http://www.bluenile.com/pave-diamond-engagement-ring-14k-white-gold-setting_25647
(again, my gf is petit and I don't want the ring to look disproportional on her fingers)

Now Back to the above 5 stones Which one performs best in your opinion? Everyone please?

 

[stone-cold11]

I would go with the H VS1, like the smaller table higher crown cut for balance performance.