I had a good look around Brisbane yesterday, and saw a pretty good range of stones already set in rings, but no loose diamonds.
The thing that surprised me most was a couple of SI1 stones which I saw. One looked completely clear to me with the naked eye, the second one didn't. It wasn't really that I could see anything specific, just that the stone looked sllghtly different in the area where the inclusion was, before I looked with an eye glass. Through an eye glass, it was obviously visible. I'm not sure whether I was seeing distortion from the inclusion or a variation in cut though.They both looked good from a distance.
Colour wise, I couldn't really tell the difference between F & G.
I haven't yet found anything exactly within budget, but am quite taken with these two stones:
I had a quick look at the Good Old Gold upgrade policy, and it just seems to involve buying a stone of equal or greater value, with no mention of quality, so some leeway there for the future.
They're both slightly over budget, but I think that I could probably make them work.
The thing that surprised me most was a couple of SI1 stones which I saw. One looked completely clear to me with the naked eye, the second one didn't. It wasn't really that I could see anything specific, just that the stone looked sllghtly different in the area where the inclusion was, before I looked with an eye glass. Through an eye glass, it was obviously visible. I'm not sure whether I was seeing distortion from the inclusion or a variation in cut though.They both looked good from a distance.
Colour wise, I couldn't really tell the difference between F & G.
I haven't yet found anything exactly within budget, but am quite taken with these two stones:
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I had a quick look at the Good Old Gold upgrade policy, and it just seems to involve buying a stone of equal or greater value, with no mention of quality, so some leeway there for the future.
They're both slightly over budget, but I think that I could probably make them work.