Mrs. Bojangles
Rough_Rock
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- Feb 12, 2011
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I have been reading about sapphires on here and visiting various online sites. I showed my husband some sapphires on one of the sites, pointed out some specific ones I might like for a ring.
He secretly found a ring at an auction and gave it to me this past weekend. It's not a sapphire, but since I liked the greenish blue ones he thought I might like a blue topaz ring...so he bought me a 12.5 carat one!!!! It is freakishly huge, set in 14K yellow gold (which I do like) and has scallops all the way around, set with teeny diamonds. The stone plus the scallops is about the size of a quarter. I'm not exaggerating!!!
I was so shocked when I opened the ring box. He explained that the photos on the web site were large. Then it hit me. He hadn't realized that those photos were greatly enlarged to show detail. I remember him saying about one sapphire, "That's reeeaally big." (It was about 2.5 carats. I told him I didn't need one that large.)
I'm making him sound like an idiot but he isn't. He is a businessman with his own successful company which he's run for a very long time. He uses computers all the time in his work, but really knows very little about gems or jewelry. Also, he tends to act quickly and decisively, sometimes not paying attention to the details of what I've said.
So now...what to do??? I feel terrible that he spent $$$ on a ring I honestly do not care for at all. I'm hoping we can re-sell it somewhere. At least we've both seen the humor in the situation and had a good laugh about it.
He secretly found a ring at an auction and gave it to me this past weekend. It's not a sapphire, but since I liked the greenish blue ones he thought I might like a blue topaz ring...so he bought me a 12.5 carat one!!!! It is freakishly huge, set in 14K yellow gold (which I do like) and has scallops all the way around, set with teeny diamonds. The stone plus the scallops is about the size of a quarter. I'm not exaggerating!!!
I was so shocked when I opened the ring box. He explained that the photos on the web site were large. Then it hit me. He hadn't realized that those photos were greatly enlarged to show detail. I remember him saying about one sapphire, "That's reeeaally big." (It was about 2.5 carats. I told him I didn't need one that large.)
I'm making him sound like an idiot but he isn't. He is a businessman with his own successful company which he's run for a very long time. He uses computers all the time in his work, but really knows very little about gems or jewelry. Also, he tends to act quickly and decisively, sometimes not paying attention to the details of what I've said.
So now...what to do??? I feel terrible that he spent $$$ on a ring I honestly do not care for at all. I'm hoping we can re-sell it somewhere. At least we've both seen the humor in the situation and had a good laugh about it.