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These photos are great. This is what well cut dismonds look like in various lighting. You are seeing the faceting and reflections of what is around the stone.
One minute I love it, the next I'm not as sure.

Becca didn't send a ring holder like she mentioned, and I'm afraid to take the stone away from the original packaging too far. Or outdoors unless it's in the box. So, the photos were done inside my family room in an area that - if I accidently dropped the diamond - it would land on a soft surface I could easily find it.

The photos are kind of wonky.
 
Diamonds are like mirrors - their facets pick up all of its surroundings. That includes clothing colors, wall colors, etc. You will see color change as you move around in different environments. The darkness in direct, bright light is to be expected. These diamonds reflect their environment and movement. They do not maintain the same look all the time. This is all evidence of a well cut, super ideal cut diamond.

As for the size, it is not the table size that affects what you see. It is the diameter of the diamonds. Don't know the specs of your current diamond or its measurements, but that is what comes into play.

Take it around in different lighting. If it is not to your liking, just go ahead and return it. Whiteflash would not want you to keep something that doesn't please you either.

I think I'm trying to compare what I saw in my .40 caret ACA diamonds to what I now see in this 2.15. That may not be fair. I loved the smaller ACA's from the moment I saw each one of them. Maybe I'm now just being more cautious about the larger stone.

I'm now carrying this new diamond around (still in its protective box) all over the place. It has just the right amount of fire (which I like) for a modern cut diamond. And in certain lighting, it has the purity of a fresh drop of water sparkling in the sun. Fascinating.

My E-ring 2 caret (which looks slightly larger) has totally different stats. The appraisal certificate is in the vault, and I don't remember them beyond it has a large table. That stone was hand cut in the 1930's by a master cutter who my husband's grandmother worked for at the time. It combines modern and old cut features. It is not a typical transitional cut. As an experiment for the diamond cutter, that stone is kind of a unicorn that worked out amazingly well. It is currently GIA appraised to be close to what I just paid for this ACA. I never asked why. Unless I'm looking to buy something new, I truthfully don't follow the ups and downs in the diamond market.

The mm on the new stone is 8.29-8.31 x 5.12mm. The girdle is Med to Slightly Thick, Faceted 3.5%, which is a variable. I don't know how much the slightly thick girdle influences how stone size may look. The positive is that it will be studier than my slightly thin girdles.

I probably need to understand this new stone more before making any real judgement call. I need to make sure I'm being realistic in what I think I'm seeing. Having it in a ring holder would definitely help. Right now, I love it one minute, and I'm not so sure the next. But I never find it "bad". So, I'm definitely not in a hurry to return the stone until I can get a better feel for it.

With the unique, older, hand cut stone almost always on my left hand, this 2.15 stone will go in a RHR like my 5 stone ACA IF/VVS1 D stones. I didn't expect this ACA to look like my E-ring diamond, but I did expect it to "look" the same size. So, there must be some kind of optical illusion going on that makes them look somewhat different in size. Maybe it's just that one is set and the other isn't...


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Was your previous stone a 60/60? It took a little while for me to get used to my SIC after having a bright white 60/60 for 24 years.

One thing I can tell you - from seeing so many stones in brick and mortar stores before finding my SIC online is that they really don’t cut diamonds like that anymore. So all of the stones I was being shown were just poor light performing MRBs without the symmetry of a SIC. So all the “newer” stones had more fire compared to the sparkly-bright stones - but a lot of them had leakage or didn’t have the sparkle I was hoping for.

I hope that makes sense…. Now that I’ve had my SIC for a year - I’m obsessed with staring at it. It’s always bright white - but the fire is what sets it apart. At my age most of my friends have 60/60s from the late 90s/early 2000s. Their stones are beautiful - but most are just bright flashes of white. When we’re outside - mine gives off a rainbow show like nothing I have seen. I’ve had so many compliments on how clear it is and it’s blinding flashes.

It takes a hot minute to get used to it - I really do recommend getting a ring holder so you can actually put it on your finger and see how it will look - also - look at it in a mirror and ask your partner or friends to “wear” it so you can see what it will look like to others. We don’t often see the best view when looking down on it.

Good luck whatever you decide.

I think you're absolutely right that I need to get this diamond in a ring holder to honestly be able to judge it.

Just to see it on my own hand, which is the most important thing to me. Most strangers won't be able to tell the difference in quality between this and any other 2 caret diamond. Or a lab diamond. So, I'm just trying to please me.

I have mixed feelings at the moment, but I may not be giving this 2.15 caret stone the chance it deserves to fully capture my heart. It certainly fits the "mind clean" bill. One minute I absolutely love the sparkle and fire. The next, I'm not as sure of what I feel.

It sounds like you've also been in this same position.
 
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