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Rough_Rock
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- Mar 15, 2005
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Looking for some help please. Bear with me because I''m throwing a lot of numbers out here...
We are working with Whiteflash on a channel-set wedding band to go with my FI''s Vatche Royal Crown e-ring. We are having a hard time deciding on the size of melee to use. The solitaire is round, 0.57ct ACA. The Vatche RC is about 3mm at the widest point.
At a local shop she tried a channel-set band that was 4mm wide with 9 x 4pt melee. We decided the band was too wide.
So we specified to WF that we''d like the band to be 3.5mm wide and to use whatever size melee fits. They are proposing 6pt stones, which leaves only 0.5mm of metal on either side of the diamonds, thereby emphasizing the stones.
This sounds good other than our concern of not wanting to overpower the solitaire. With nine 6 pointers, the ctw of the band would be 0.56 versus the solitaire at 0.57. Is this combo ok? The other option is to go with 4 pointers instead. I guess we need to keep in mind that the difference in diameter is only 0.3mm!
Any advice?
Thanks,
Mark
We are working with Whiteflash on a channel-set wedding band to go with my FI''s Vatche Royal Crown e-ring. We are having a hard time deciding on the size of melee to use. The solitaire is round, 0.57ct ACA. The Vatche RC is about 3mm at the widest point.
At a local shop she tried a channel-set band that was 4mm wide with 9 x 4pt melee. We decided the band was too wide.
So we specified to WF that we''d like the band to be 3.5mm wide and to use whatever size melee fits. They are proposing 6pt stones, which leaves only 0.5mm of metal on either side of the diamonds, thereby emphasizing the stones.
This sounds good other than our concern of not wanting to overpower the solitaire. With nine 6 pointers, the ctw of the band would be 0.56 versus the solitaire at 0.57. Is this combo ok? The other option is to go with 4 pointers instead. I guess we need to keep in mind that the difference in diameter is only 0.3mm!
Any advice?
Thanks,
Mark