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I've been meaning to post an update earlier but work has been distracting/busy. Long story short the diamond is not eye clean to my standards. The stone is indeed gorgeous no doubt but I can almost always make out the inclusion and in certain lighting it is obvious from more than a full arms length away. I found out I'm cursed with myopic hawkeyes and so maybe it's not noticeable to most others . My initial reaction was " guh!!! *heart break*. I was reallllly hoping this would be it. I will be honest my bf and I were a little upset that this was described to us as eye clean since to us (and our jeweller) it isn't HOWEVER since then I have gotten over the drama queen part and am now at the "ok it happened, now what do I do?" To be fair, I was warned about the risks of buying a si2 on the other post so I guess I deserve a few " I told you so's". Eye clean is very subjective, I took a risk and it unfortunately didn't pan out.
My bf wants to just do a return and start over locally but I really wanted an august vintage stone. So far these are my options, which one would you choose or suggest another alternative.
1. Keep what I have and wait to upgrade (it really is a nice stone and if I don't focus directly on the middle I can't always see the feather, at other times I'm just like woah, it's so obvious)
2. Exchange for a diff AVR ( budget is tight, rising prices don't help neither does limited selection there are only about 2 other AVRs that I would consider unfortunately none of them are higher than si1)
3. Exchange for a AVC ( another cut that I also like, however all stones in my price range are k-l and even though I love the warmth of a I I've never seen a K or L and am nervous)
4. Return, cut my losses start over locally- I have no idea where to begin looking for vintage style stones though
I don't really want to deal with the trouble of shipping stones across the border much more so I want to be super picky aka anal about my next purchase.
Please offer your sage advice. Thank you![Smile2 :) :)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
I've been meaning to post an update earlier but work has been distracting/busy. Long story short the diamond is not eye clean to my standards. The stone is indeed gorgeous no doubt but I can almost always make out the inclusion and in certain lighting it is obvious from more than a full arms length away. I found out I'm cursed with myopic hawkeyes and so maybe it's not noticeable to most others . My initial reaction was " guh!!! *heart break*. I was reallllly hoping this would be it. I will be honest my bf and I were a little upset that this was described to us as eye clean since to us (and our jeweller) it isn't HOWEVER since then I have gotten over the drama queen part and am now at the "ok it happened, now what do I do?" To be fair, I was warned about the risks of buying a si2 on the other post so I guess I deserve a few " I told you so's". Eye clean is very subjective, I took a risk and it unfortunately didn't pan out.
My bf wants to just do a return and start over locally but I really wanted an august vintage stone. So far these are my options, which one would you choose or suggest another alternative.
1. Keep what I have and wait to upgrade (it really is a nice stone and if I don't focus directly on the middle I can't always see the feather, at other times I'm just like woah, it's so obvious)
2. Exchange for a diff AVR ( budget is tight, rising prices don't help neither does limited selection there are only about 2 other AVRs that I would consider unfortunately none of them are higher than si1)
3. Exchange for a AVC ( another cut that I also like, however all stones in my price range are k-l and even though I love the warmth of a I I've never seen a K or L and am nervous)
4. Return, cut my losses start over locally- I have no idea where to begin looking for vintage style stones though
I don't really want to deal with the trouble of shipping stones across the border much more so I want to be super picky aka anal about my next purchase.
Please offer your sage advice. Thank you