I had been lurking for a while with a few random questions but mainly drawing on the collective knowledge on this forum.
It doesn’t take long to see that there are a few preferred superideal vendors which often gets mentioned with all of them being in the US. I’m sure they are all great vendors who does countless of overseas sales but there’s something about plonking a huge amount of money for a stone sight unseen. I even bought 2 smaller stones, a Brian Gavin signature and black as a test run to gauge how I felt about the process but it didn’t feel quite right.
With Garry commenting that the majority of stones being cut and polished in Surat, India and a large proportion of Sergey’s clients buying his tech in India. I find it hard to believe that a superideal cut cannot be found in Asia. If we used Malaysia as a central point and draw a 4-5hr flight radius, I can get to India to my West, China and Myanmar to my North, Brunei to my East and even as far South as Northern Australia (where the Argyle mine is located). Surely there’s a vendor in Asia.
A well cut stone is after all a well cut stone backed up by a great ASET and perfect symmetry and I’m sure none here would argue over the in real live view of a stone, especially a super ideal. It was then another forum user who pointed out JannPaul in Singapore and after abit of further digging, I decided to pay them a visit.
JannPaul is the collaboration of 3 second generation jewellers with a simple aim; curating the most perfect stones and offering them at a great price.
Here’s the scopes of 2 of the stones. I’m not sure if I could show prices but decided to leave them out. While the prices are comparable to Whiteflash ACA’s, I considered all the benefits that come with a B&M such as ring fitting, resizing, upgrade and of course live view.
One advantage is their ring customization services. The 18k white gold classic solitaire settings starts from usd$370 (excluding tax). If there are extra charges, it would mainly depend on the design (for eg. more gold is needed). In addition, they provide free 3D renders, superimpose and ring wax, with unlimited changes.
It was also good to know that their staff are salaried instead of commissioned so there’s really no pushy sales. They recommend that you make an appt (even though walk-ins are fine) as they allocate 2hrs for each client, so that they can go though all aspects of a good cut and show you all the stones through all the scopes and different lightings. Believe me, 2hrs is not a long time.
For the more budget conscious, feel free to check out their affiliate store (which is actually in the same store, House of Hung) which stocks their so-called ideal cut range. All stones are shown via scope and in as many different lighting as u so please.
Their only Achilles heel is that for their super ideal range, they only curate stones from D to G with the lowest clarity grade being VS2 so that would greatly limit future upgrade options.
The world is a small place these days and if you happen to drop by Singapore, be sure to pay them a visit. Not forgetting you get exempted from the local GST.
It doesn’t take long to see that there are a few preferred superideal vendors which often gets mentioned with all of them being in the US. I’m sure they are all great vendors who does countless of overseas sales but there’s something about plonking a huge amount of money for a stone sight unseen. I even bought 2 smaller stones, a Brian Gavin signature and black as a test run to gauge how I felt about the process but it didn’t feel quite right.
With Garry commenting that the majority of stones being cut and polished in Surat, India and a large proportion of Sergey’s clients buying his tech in India. I find it hard to believe that a superideal cut cannot be found in Asia. If we used Malaysia as a central point and draw a 4-5hr flight radius, I can get to India to my West, China and Myanmar to my North, Brunei to my East and even as far South as Northern Australia (where the Argyle mine is located). Surely there’s a vendor in Asia.
A well cut stone is after all a well cut stone backed up by a great ASET and perfect symmetry and I’m sure none here would argue over the in real live view of a stone, especially a super ideal. It was then another forum user who pointed out JannPaul in Singapore and after abit of further digging, I decided to pay them a visit.
JannPaul is the collaboration of 3 second generation jewellers with a simple aim; curating the most perfect stones and offering them at a great price.
Here’s the scopes of 2 of the stones. I’m not sure if I could show prices but decided to leave them out. While the prices are comparable to Whiteflash ACA’s, I considered all the benefits that come with a B&M such as ring fitting, resizing, upgrade and of course live view.
One advantage is their ring customization services. The 18k white gold classic solitaire settings starts from usd$370 (excluding tax). If there are extra charges, it would mainly depend on the design (for eg. more gold is needed). In addition, they provide free 3D renders, superimpose and ring wax, with unlimited changes.
It was also good to know that their staff are salaried instead of commissioned so there’s really no pushy sales. They recommend that you make an appt (even though walk-ins are fine) as they allocate 2hrs for each client, so that they can go though all aspects of a good cut and show you all the stones through all the scopes and different lightings. Believe me, 2hrs is not a long time.
For the more budget conscious, feel free to check out their affiliate store (which is actually in the same store, House of Hung) which stocks their so-called ideal cut range. All stones are shown via scope and in as many different lighting as u so please.
Their only Achilles heel is that for their super ideal range, they only curate stones from D to G with the lowest clarity grade being VS2 so that would greatly limit future upgrade options.
The world is a small place these days and if you happen to drop by Singapore, be sure to pay them a visit. Not forgetting you get exempted from the local GST.
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