Not Sure If I Love It or Hate It, JUMBO Culet

[iLander]

I saw this diamond on ebay, and part of me thinks it's cool.

1.62cttw, E color, SI1 clarity, 11mm x 11mm of diamond bigness.

Then part of me thinks it's like something from the Illuminati.

I can't decide if it's tacky, or not.

I contacted the vendor and no, it doesn't have an actual hole. It's just cut with the world's largest culet.

What do you think? Love it, or hate it?

 

[ame]

I saw this diamond on ebay, and part of me thinks it's cool.

1.62cttw, E color, SI1 clarity, 11mm x 11mm of diamond bigness.

Then part of me thinks it's like something from the Illuminati.

I can't decide if it's tacky, or not.

I contacted the vendor and no, it doesn't have an actual hole. It's just cut with the world's largest culet.

What do you think? Love it, or hate it?

I actually said out loud "ew. no".

But I did laugh at your illuminati comment.

 

[orbaya]

I personally don't like it. The picture makes it look like it has a window, like colored stones can have.

 

[tyty333]

Yeh, no, it wouldnt be for me. I could see how some people might think its cool though.

 

[rosetta]

You would have to join a cult with that ring ilander!

Illuminati. lOL.

 

[Dee*Jay]

Oooooooh... NO!

Maybe if it were set with a solid piece of platinum underneath so that the white metal showed up through instead of pinkish finger, but even that would be a stretch...

 

[MichelleCarmen]

I saw this diamond on ebay, and part of me thinks it's cool.

1.62cttw, E color, SI1 clarity, 11mm x 11mm of diamond bigness.

Then part of me thinks it's like something from the Illuminati.

?

lol!

 

[singer]

No. It looks like a CZ...a poorly cut CZ for that matter. I would spend my money elsewhere.

 

[diamondseeker2006]

Nooooo for me!!!

 

[Rosebloom]

Not my style!

 

[bgray]

oh well........i love it. looks vintage and deco to me. very cool. i like open culets

 

[Laila619]

Not a fan. Sorry!

 

[Enerchi]

I love the trillion shape and how it is set with the baguettes, but that particular stone... if it were me... would not be my dream trillion! I don't think I'm a fan of such a large culet.

 

[missy]

Hate it...looks like a big old window and just doesn't suit the stone IMO. I love open culets too but it doesn't look right here (to me).

 

[GemFever]

I have to agree with everyone who's against it. To me, the beauty of a culet is that it reflects in old cut stones, creating a cool pattern and reflecting light like an extra facet. The one in this trillion looks like a window. To bad though, because trillions can be quite brilliant (at least the small trillion sapphire I have is very sparkly).

 

[yennyfire]

Big "no" here. I like a little unique, but that's too much...

 

[kindred]

I vote "hate it".

 

[Mayk]

Yeah... I'm not loving it...

 

[athenaworth]

it looks like an empty halo setting to me. :-/

 

[ClassyRocks]

"No Vote". Thanks for posting it though!

 

[marymm]

Have to admit I kinda like it - but I wonder if a different setting might work better (closed back bezel maybe?)

 

[HopeDream]

You mean the giant dark triangle of despare that sucks the all the life and joy from the center of the stone?

That's no culet, that's a black hole! Run before you're ensnared by its gravity well!

 

[distracts]

lol Illuminati.

Dislike the actual diamond, though I like the setting just fine.

 

[cygnet]

You mean the giant dark triangle of despare that sucks the all the life and joy from the center of the stone?

That's no culet, that's a black hole! Run before you're ensnared by its gravity well!

Normally I love a nice big culet, but that's a little TOO big for me. I love the setting though, I've never seen that with a trillion shape before.

I wonder if the culet was cut super huge in order to get rid of an inclusion?

 

[CharmyPoo]

Haha .... no for me in every way unless .......... maybe I stick a color stone in that culet.

 

[gregchang35]

NOPE!!!!

 

[Karl_K]

Haha .... no for me in every way unless .......... maybe I stick a color stone in that culet.

Yep mount a well cut light blue zircon or other hi RI stone under it designed to reflect colored light back up the culet.

 

[cygnet]

Hmmm or maybe the person wanted it set so low that the culet had to be chopped off to make it fit?

 

[hippi_pixi]

I love all thing antique / culets / a little bit quirky but i don't like this either

i think diamonds are facetted for light return and sparkle and with a black hole that big it might as well be glass. and the rest of the diamond just looks cloudy and poorly cut

 

[lknvrb4]

Nope, don't like it at all.