Dear PriceScopers,
I joined within the past month and have done some readings here and also on some other diamond educator websites. I'm really glad my paranoia/obsessive personality saved me from blindly getting into a market of so many dimensions and just buy the first diamond that I see fit, because after one more education article, my view changed about that previously "ideal" diamond. After a dozen of times that this scenario happened, I came across this diamond on JA that I am seriously considering purchasing.
It would be so kind of you if you could help me analyze on this diamond. In a nutshell, it is a 1.2-carat, F, VVS1, and GIA 3X. The HCA score came out to be 0.9, which I'm not sure whether is too low for a diamond to be used on a ring. On HCA website, it says a score under 1 is usually good for earrings or necklace, while a score of 1 - 2 is good for rings. Another issue with this diamond is the strong fluorescence. I remember reading that strong blue might be troublesome for D/E/F class. By looking at the 360 image at 20X I cannot tell if this is the case, but this is my first time purchasing a diamond in my life, so I'm sure my eyes need way to much training compared to yours, so your opinions would weigh much more than my own
The problem at the moment is that JA rep said he could not retrieve Idealscope image of this diamond due to its location being overseas. I've read so many articles that advised against buying blind, and lacking Idealscope image gives me a perception of buying blind.
For your information, diamond I found today is SKU 2770967 on James Allen. I'm not sure if I'm allowed to post the link, so I only included the SKU. A GIA screenshot will also be attached to this post. I would appreciate your help in determining if there is any potential issues with this diamond without looking at its idealscope. Your insight would weigh very much to my decision. I may consider purchasing it without the idealscope and then get its idealscope after I get the diamond (or preferably have JA take the image when they have the diamond in-house but before shipping out to me). But since this is my first-time-in-life diamond purchase, I may be dead wrong in doing (or planning on doing) this.
Lastly, I thought I should probably add a little of my mentality/background thoughts on this purchase. I think I'm in a cheapa** mentality at this moment, but that is because I've been repetitively raising my budget. Original budget was something like $4000, but then I thought I want to give her a 1+ carat, so that raised the budget to ~$5000. Then, I became comfortable in comprehending 4Cs, I became anal about them, and would want eye clean. Being risk averse, I set clarity at VS1 or above. Then, I decided to get 1.2-ct, so the color has to be F, because I read that color plays a larger role in larger stones... Then, I learned a little about cuts and symmetries, I started checking HCA score and such. To end this illogical mumble, long story short, my budget is now $9000... After doubling my budget, my current goal is to find the 1.2-ct, F, VS1+, HCA < 2, at the lowest price possible. Please forgive my cheapness and naive perception, if any. This last sentence is basically what I tried to say in this entire last paragraph
Anyway, thanks in advance for any advice and opinions!
P.S., having read some other threads, I see that many of you suggested (to other novice diamond hunters) to lower color grading from F to G. I thought about this, but I guess I'm just obsessed with the colorless category, it's an illness. As to clarity, being eye clean seems to be unsatisfactory for me, again because of my obsessiveness. I blame this partially on JA's 20X images, i.e. if it's not clean enough in 20X image, which is what I see in the first place, it won't be "eye clean" to me psychologically, even if it's really eye clean. God I feel ill about this.
I joined within the past month and have done some readings here and also on some other diamond educator websites. I'm really glad my paranoia/obsessive personality saved me from blindly getting into a market of so many dimensions and just buy the first diamond that I see fit, because after one more education article, my view changed about that previously "ideal" diamond. After a dozen of times that this scenario happened, I came across this diamond on JA that I am seriously considering purchasing.
It would be so kind of you if you could help me analyze on this diamond. In a nutshell, it is a 1.2-carat, F, VVS1, and GIA 3X. The HCA score came out to be 0.9, which I'm not sure whether is too low for a diamond to be used on a ring. On HCA website, it says a score under 1 is usually good for earrings or necklace, while a score of 1 - 2 is good for rings. Another issue with this diamond is the strong fluorescence. I remember reading that strong blue might be troublesome for D/E/F class. By looking at the 360 image at 20X I cannot tell if this is the case, but this is my first time purchasing a diamond in my life, so I'm sure my eyes need way to much training compared to yours, so your opinions would weigh much more than my own
The problem at the moment is that JA rep said he could not retrieve Idealscope image of this diamond due to its location being overseas. I've read so many articles that advised against buying blind, and lacking Idealscope image gives me a perception of buying blind.
For your information, diamond I found today is SKU 2770967 on James Allen. I'm not sure if I'm allowed to post the link, so I only included the SKU. A GIA screenshot will also be attached to this post. I would appreciate your help in determining if there is any potential issues with this diamond without looking at its idealscope. Your insight would weigh very much to my decision. I may consider purchasing it without the idealscope and then get its idealscope after I get the diamond (or preferably have JA take the image when they have the diamond in-house but before shipping out to me). But since this is my first-time-in-life diamond purchase, I may be dead wrong in doing (or planning on doing) this.
Lastly, I thought I should probably add a little of my mentality/background thoughts on this purchase. I think I'm in a cheapa** mentality at this moment, but that is because I've been repetitively raising my budget. Original budget was something like $4000, but then I thought I want to give her a 1+ carat, so that raised the budget to ~$5000. Then, I became comfortable in comprehending 4Cs, I became anal about them, and would want eye clean. Being risk averse, I set clarity at VS1 or above. Then, I decided to get 1.2-ct, so the color has to be F, because I read that color plays a larger role in larger stones... Then, I learned a little about cuts and symmetries, I started checking HCA score and such. To end this illogical mumble, long story short, my budget is now $9000... After doubling my budget, my current goal is to find the 1.2-ct, F, VS1+, HCA < 2, at the lowest price possible. Please forgive my cheapness and naive perception, if any. This last sentence is basically what I tried to say in this entire last paragraph
Anyway, thanks in advance for any advice and opinions!
P.S., having read some other threads, I see that many of you suggested (to other novice diamond hunters) to lower color grading from F to G. I thought about this, but I guess I'm just obsessed with the colorless category, it's an illness. As to clarity, being eye clean seems to be unsatisfactory for me, again because of my obsessiveness. I blame this partially on JA's 20X images, i.e. if it's not clean enough in 20X image, which is what I see in the first place, it won't be "eye clean" to me psychologically, even if it's really eye clean. God I feel ill about this.
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