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O colour oec, what colour prongs?

Confection10

Confection10

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IMG_4031.JPG Hi, I need some assistance when planning solitaire setting for my stone. Simple 8 prong with rounded shank. I have an 2.58 O colour old european cut diamond with yellow undertone. I'm after "creamy" look. The shank will be 18k rose gold. Opinions needed, please. Here is my stone and it's original setting, before I bought it from Erica/LAD.
 
Shut the front door - that's an O? :-o it's so white, even from the side!
I really like the two-tone of the original setting - so I'd do platinum or unplated WG prongs against the RG shank
 
I would go with rose gold all around. I know it's the norm to try to whiten warm diamonds by putting them next to white metal, but I didn't like the contrast of a warm stone against white metal.
 
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Why ... perhaps difficult to explain. The older settings with Pt heads on YG bands, holding diamonds well beyond GIA's near-colourless range, always seemed to make sense. I might say that the band of the ring makes for a happy benchmark of 'Yellow' - which the diamond is still very far from - inasmuch, its real-world whiteness is obvious. The colour of the metal around the diamond (prongs etc.) makes more difference to the overall look of the design, than to the aparent colour of the diamond ... to me ... [the deepest gold colour seems to bring up slight differences in diamond colour rather than hide anything ! WWW]

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I don’t think you can go wrong. It is a beautiful stone!
 
IMG_4208.JPG Thank you foxinsox, Matthews1127, tyty333, Tourmaline, valeria101, kgizo and marymm.

My current setting is platinum (setting is gorgeous), but somehow I feel, that my beautiful oec is a little confused and miss. Like she doesn't know should she been yellow or perhaps less colourful. What she isn't. She is lemony. I'd like to bring colour more apparent. Not hide it. I love this shade rose gold, but wonder how lemony O colour reacts IRL.
 
I'm confused ... in your opening post you say you are going for a "creamy" look, but in the above post you say you'd like to bring color more apparent; not hide it.

For creamy, I say platinum or white gold.

For more apparent color, and you say the OEC's tint is yellowy (as opposed to brown or grey), then I'd say yellow gold.

Personally I don't care for yellow-y stones in rose gold, but YMMV.
 
Confection10 said:
My current setting is platinum ... I'd like to bring colour more apparent. Not hide it.
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Just thinking that it is easy to check if just doing a coloured gold band would 'pick up' the colour of the diamond one way or another: wearing a gold band next to the ring & really looking for what the sum total of white & coloured metal & diamond adds up to...

Otherwise, perhaps I'd say that a light blue something would make the slight P tint aparent beautufully & the design too unusual for its own good ! I remember seeing some such, but the combination is so very unusual Google doesn't offer anything ...
 
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I'd use rise gold, but you might inquire about champagne or peach gold. For the head or whole setting. They are more similar to vintage rose gold and colorwise lay between yellow and modern rose which is very pink.
 
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Champagne gold is between Peach and yellow.

Ring with stone is 14k Peach, band is 1rose.
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marymm said:
I'm confused ... in your opening post you say you are going for a "creamy" look, but in the above post you say you'd like to bring color more apparent; not hide it.

For creamy, I say platinum or white gold.

For more apparent color, and you say the OEC's tint is yellowy (as opposed to brown or grey), then I'd say yellow gold.

Personally I don't care for yellow-y stones in rose gold, but YMMV.
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marymm, maybe my word creamy was misleading, because I didn't mean just the stone, but stone and setting combo. I have now platinum setting and I wouldn't call it creamy.

Thank You for your opinion. I appreciate it.
 
valeria101 said:
Just thinking that it is easy to check if just doing a coloured gold band would 'pick up' the colour of the diamond one way or another: wearing a gold band next to the ring & really looking for what the sum total of white & coloured metal & diamond adds up to...

Otherwise, perhaps I'd say that a light blue something would make the slight P tint aparent beautufully & the design too unusual for its own good ! I remember seeing some such, but the combination is so very unusual Google doesn't offer anything ...
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I have tried it. Unfortunately my stone is bezel like cupping head (under the stone is wide platinum circle) so that method didn't help.

Thanks for your nice opinion.
 
I like that shade of peach gold and think it would be pretty with your stone.
 
rockysalamander said:
I'd use rise gold, but you might inquire about champagne or peach gold. For the head or whole setting. They are more similar to vintage rose gold and colorwise lay between yellow and modern rose which is very pink.
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If I end up to rose gold, it will be 18k. 14k is far too pink. David Klass seems to have quite suble toned 18k. The biggest dilemma to me are prongs...
 
kgizo said:
I like that shade of peach gold and think it would be pretty with your stone.
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The photo with green garnet I attached, finds David Klass instagram and it is lucious.
 
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There must be more examples where this one comes from - WWW ... perhaps useful ...
 
img_1998_0.jpgThis is my Q colored OEC set in platinum an yellow gold. The stone is set in a yellow gold cup, platinum halo and sides with a yellow gold shank. The gold is 18k and accents the "lemony" color of the stone. Just thought I would show you a photo so that you can see the contrast. Your stone is beautiful
 
Hi @Confection10 :wavey: I have an M color OEC set in Plat. It really looks quite white in most situations, but it has a yellowish undertone. When I pare it with my 18K rose gold band it really is not complimentary with the stone. It almost gives it a *greenish?” Look. As soon as I change it to a plat. or diamond band it’s white again. It also pairs very prettily with my 14K YG Orange Blossom band. I hope this helps.
 
Queenie60 said:
img_1998_0.jpgThis is my Q colored OEC set in platinum an yellow gold. The stone is set in a yellow gold cup, platinum halo and sides with a yellow gold shank. The gold is 18k and accents the "lemony" color of the stone. Just thought I would show you a photo so that you can see the contrast. Your stone is beautiful
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Thank You, your ring is absolutely marvelous. I love how the colour of your stone pops out of setting.
 
Bonfire said:
Hi @Confection10 :wavey: I have an M color OEC set in Plat. It really looks quite white in most situations, but it has a yellowish undertone. When I pare it with my 18K rose gold band it really is not complimentary with the stone. It almost gives it a *greenish?” Look. As soon as I change it to a plat. or diamond band it’s white again. It also pairs very prettily with my 14K YG Orange Blossom band. I hope this helps.
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Thank You very much. This greenish thing is something I have read before and really don't want. Just a band made your stone greenish? Wow, this gets me think colour of shank again...Your comment helped me a lot!
 
ericad said:
Here's a fun one - same AGS O colored diamond set in both white gold and yellow gold...

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Thank You, these photos are great. Huge affect to stone which metal has used. I'm glad I created this thread. Decision seems to get easier.

By the way, I have tried to contact You. Will you check your mail, please.
 
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