Greetings
This site is amazing - I've learned more about 7mm things here than I ever thought was possible. I've spent many hours reading everything I could find and searching around the various PS-approved vendors and have made a spreadsheet with many potential diamonds. I feel like I have some that have good potential, but I'm looking for some unbiased opinions on how to get not only the most bang for my buck, but something more along the lines of KA-BANG, if you get my drift.
Constraints:
Searching through the archives, it looks like a couple years ago folks were posting links left and right with 1.5ct H&A type stones for ~10k. Man, either I'm bad at searching, or things got more expensive. Boo. Help me turn back the clock and spend 100 one-hundred dollar bills on something that I can swallow. Ya'll are the best - curious to see what you guys will come up with and compare it to my nerd-spreadsheet.
This site is amazing - I've learned more about 7mm things here than I ever thought was possible. I've spent many hours reading everything I could find and searching around the various PS-approved vendors and have made a spreadsheet with many potential diamonds. I feel like I have some that have good potential, but I'm looking for some unbiased opinions on how to get not only the most bang for my buck, but something more along the lines of KA-BANG, if you get my drift.
Constraints:
- Budget - Looking to spend somewhere in the neighborhood of 8-10k on a round brilliant diamond (pause for hyperventilation to stop).
- Cut - My personal preference keeps taking me to the look and performance of extremely well cut H&A type stones.
- Clarity - Eye-clean is required. I'd really like to not be able to see any gunk inside the thing looking at it quite closely. But I'm not afraid of S1 either.
- Color - Everything I read tells me that I is totally fine, and since I'll be setting in a TBD yellow gold solitaire, I think it is even "more ok". Not to say that something 'whiter' isn't better. Also intrigued by fluorescence, but am afraid of the thing turning into a chunk of purple in sunlight.
- Size - Bigger is better. Pretty sure that the size (and probably the cut in conjunction) will produce the wow-factor that I'm hoping for.
Searching through the archives, it looks like a couple years ago folks were posting links left and right with 1.5ct H&A type stones for ~10k. Man, either I'm bad at searching, or things got more expensive. Boo. Help me turn back the clock and spend 100 one-hundred dollar bills on something that I can swallow. Ya'll are the best - curious to see what you guys will come up with and compare it to my nerd-spreadsheet.