Help with Oval Diamond

[suilesor]

Hi all--

I'm in the process of buying an engagement ring and I think I've found the one. Briefly, my soon-to-be fiance is looking for an oval diamond with a thin diamond band, no halo. I have a budget of approximately $25,000, but can be flexible. After countless lurking on this site and reading just about ever post on oval diamonds, I've come to the following set of standards: at least G, at least VS2 (or if lower then "eye-clean"), limited bow tie, approximately 1.4-1.5 L/W ratio.

So with all that said, I found the following diamond and setting and I think they look perfect, but I wanted to let all you much more knowledgeable folks on here take a look and let me know if you agree.

Stone: http://www.jamesallen.com/loose-diamonds/oval-cut/2.01-carat-g-color-vvs2-clarity-sku-257238
Setting: http://www.jamesallen.com/engagement-rings/pave/platinum-2.2mm-pave-diamond-engagement-ring-item-2347

Thanks in advance!

 

[JulieN]

...Its rather lopsided. I'd cancel any ASET order if you have one.

ETA: I guess after watching it for awhile, it doesn't look as lopsided as my initial impression.

 

[JulieN]

JA will review up to 3 diamonds for you.

Here are some other options, I like the first two 2.01s with their small tables.
http://www.b2cjewels.com/dd-4283350-2.01-carat-Oval-diamond-F-color-VS2-Clarity.aspx?sku=4283350&utm_source=pricescope.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=pricescope.com

http://www.b2cjewels.com/dd-4283329-2.01-carat-Oval-diamond-F-color-VVS1-Clarity.aspx?sku=4283329&utm_source=pricescope.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=pricescope.com

http://www.b2cjewels.com/dd-4130404-2.04-carat-Oval-diamond-F-color-IF-Clarity.aspx?sku=4130404&utm_source=pricescope.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=pricescope.com

http://www.b2cjewels.com/dd-4283331-2.04-carat-Oval-diamond-G-color-VS2-Clarity.aspx?sku=4283331&utm_source=pricescope.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=pricescope.com

 

[suilesor]

Thanks for your help. The first two you pointed out seem to have a large bow tie even on the still photos, but that is hard to see without being able to see a video of the diamond from multiple angles. I don't mind some of an effect, but I also don't want a huge dead space in the middle of the diamond. Any thoughts on that?

I'm also having some difficulty reading those ASET images as they are black background but have a lot of white in them. Can you help me understand why that is?

 

[JulieN]

The first two don't have a bowtie. No ovals have huge dead spaces in the middle, that is where most of the action is. A bowtie in an oval is just like arrows in a round, it is obstruction, so it will show up as blue in an ASET. Here is what a thin bowtie would look like: http://goodoldgold.com/diamond/10550/ The 2.01 F VVS1 might have something of a vertical bowtie. It may or may not be a problem, you'd have to as the vendor or B2C ships for free both ways and you can see for yourself.

These are not ASET photographs. Basically the diamond is "scanned" in a machine that measures its proportions and this data is fed into software that will generate an ASET. The default is a black background. Ovals in general have a lot of white under ASET, that's normal. I have already selected for ones that do not have large patches of white. The problem with the generated scans is that it only has red, green, blue, and white. In an ASET photograph, you can get light red or light green where there is partial leakage. I don't know where the program decides that something that shows up light green in a photograph would get coded to green or white, my guess is the white definitely looks starker and stands out more on a generated ASET.