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Shiny_Rock
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- Mar 3, 2010
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So BF and I had a great day today going engagement ring shopping. After a few tries, we managed to make it to Old World and met Adam who was SUPER nice. I had previously sent Adam a list of stones that looked good to us from their website and he was nice enough to have pulled them for us to view. We wound up changing our parameters a little so Adam showed up some OMCs and OECs that met the criteria we were looking at. He was kind enough to further educate us on the stones allowing us to view stones with different clarities, colors, and weights. He showed me how to properly use a loupe and also how to pronounce cutlet which I had been pronouncing like "chicken cutlet". LOL.
It seemed like our tastes matched well with Adam''s sense of what stones were of high quality. He was kind enough to show us some stones that illustrated different problems - feathers, bubbles. After looking through quite a few, Adam was kind enough to set aside the ones we favored while we have a chance to think about them.
While we were there, we saw boxes of a new product that he is launching in the next few days/weeks. It''s called Oxi Jewel and it''s this product that can clean rings and diamonds without the issues that come alone with other products like loosening stones in settings. Anyways, it''s coming out soon so keep your eyes on that.
Anyways, after our trip to Old World, BF and I went to Tiffany''s to take a look at settings. This is our second time there and I have to say that besides the little blue box, there was nothing at Tiffany''s that made us ever want to go back. The salesperson didn''t know what width any of the settings were - she was guessing a lot of the time and didn''t bother to look it up. They had really no options in terms of round settings and the diamonds, despite being F and Gs in color and VVS1s in clarity weren''t at all impressive. They didn''t really seem like they wanted business. It was unfortunate and disappointing.
Time to mull over our options, but thought everyone should know how awesome Antique Diamonds are, how great Adam at Old World was, and how much Tiffany''s is so not worth it.
It seemed like our tastes matched well with Adam''s sense of what stones were of high quality. He was kind enough to show us some stones that illustrated different problems - feathers, bubbles. After looking through quite a few, Adam was kind enough to set aside the ones we favored while we have a chance to think about them.
While we were there, we saw boxes of a new product that he is launching in the next few days/weeks. It''s called Oxi Jewel and it''s this product that can clean rings and diamonds without the issues that come alone with other products like loosening stones in settings. Anyways, it''s coming out soon so keep your eyes on that.
Anyways, after our trip to Old World, BF and I went to Tiffany''s to take a look at settings. This is our second time there and I have to say that besides the little blue box, there was nothing at Tiffany''s that made us ever want to go back. The salesperson didn''t know what width any of the settings were - she was guessing a lot of the time and didn''t bother to look it up. They had really no options in terms of round settings and the diamonds, despite being F and Gs in color and VVS1s in clarity weren''t at all impressive. They didn''t really seem like they wanted business. It was unfortunate and disappointing.
Time to mull over our options, but thought everyone should know how awesome Antique Diamonds are, how great Adam at Old World was, and how much Tiffany''s is so not worth it.
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