Hi All,
I've been going round and round (pun intended) trying to find the right diamond and have done my head in on research
I'm now not sure what to do
I'm trying to find a 2 carat (2 minimum) round diamond, SI1 eye clean, F colour, XXX GIA. It will be set in a 6 prong claw so I'm trying to avoid any significant inclusions in the middle of the table
I'm looking at finding something between 1 and 2.6 on HCA (maybe up to 3) but just want something that dazzles
My budget is around 22k max (ideallly more towards 20 but will stretch for right one)
I've looked on pricescope and after looking at many many diamonds i'm leaning towards jamesallen as they have detailed images (although you pay a bit more)
I found a diamond which I thought was excellent on jamesallen, ticked all the boxes, looked eyeclean. Found the same one on Adiamor for slightly cheaper and was going to purchase and decided to ask for a Idealscope image (first idealscope image I've seen) and from what I can tell in interpreting (white area is bad right? please correct me if i'm wrong), the idealscope is very very bad with lots of light leakage.
http://www.adiamor.com/Diamonds/F-SI1-Affinity-Cut-Round-Diamond/D33774556
Now after this i'm unsure what my options are. I'm also hesitant to purchase on somewhere like bluenile or b2c where no idealscope images are available after this initial experience
Anyone provide some guidance?
A local jeweller recommended me to go for the full ring with them and sent me some GIA certificates that I found on bluenile and b2c, but I don't have much confidence as they told me to ignore technicalities behind idealscope/HCA and just go for one which is eyeclean and GIA
edit: according to this guide - this idealscope image is actually very good? Input?
http://jeweladmin.com/images/gallery/51/userfiles/images/education/precision5.jpg
I've been going round and round (pun intended) trying to find the right diamond and have done my head in on research
I'm now not sure what to do
I'm trying to find a 2 carat (2 minimum) round diamond, SI1 eye clean, F colour, XXX GIA. It will be set in a 6 prong claw so I'm trying to avoid any significant inclusions in the middle of the table
I'm looking at finding something between 1 and 2.6 on HCA (maybe up to 3) but just want something that dazzles
My budget is around 22k max (ideallly more towards 20 but will stretch for right one)
I've looked on pricescope and after looking at many many diamonds i'm leaning towards jamesallen as they have detailed images (although you pay a bit more)
I found a diamond which I thought was excellent on jamesallen, ticked all the boxes, looked eyeclean. Found the same one on Adiamor for slightly cheaper and was going to purchase and decided to ask for a Idealscope image (first idealscope image I've seen) and from what I can tell in interpreting (white area is bad right? please correct me if i'm wrong), the idealscope is very very bad with lots of light leakage.
http://www.adiamor.com/Diamonds/F-SI1-Affinity-Cut-Round-Diamond/D33774556
Now after this i'm unsure what my options are. I'm also hesitant to purchase on somewhere like bluenile or b2c where no idealscope images are available after this initial experience
Anyone provide some guidance?
A local jeweller recommended me to go for the full ring with them and sent me some GIA certificates that I found on bluenile and b2c, but I don't have much confidence as they told me to ignore technicalities behind idealscope/HCA and just go for one which is eyeclean and GIA
edit: according to this guide - this idealscope image is actually very good? Input?
http://jeweladmin.com/images/gallery/51/userfiles/images/education/precision5.jpg