Opinions on center stones

[MonkeyMike]

I've got two stones on 24 hr hold right now. One at GOG, and one at WF. Opinions on both would be appreciated.

The budget for my center stone is $6,000. I could probably squeeze a bit more but I would like to keep it at that budget.

GOG: 1.06ct I/VS2
GOG Stone

WF: 1.15ct I/SI1
WF Stone
(hmmm, for some reason, this one shows available... they told me it was on hold

)

The GOG is $200 cheaper, so they are essentially the same price. I'm leaning toward the VS2, probably because of the "mind clean" issue... but I'm sure I can be swayed

Thanks in advance

~mike

 

[stone-cold11]

I am guessing since you ask WF to reserve for you, you have ask them to check if it is eye-clean?

Size wise I would say they are not easy to tell apart. Both are beautiful stones so going either way is ok with me. Just depends on my priorities I guess, like for you it is mind-clean or to save a few bucks, then I would go GOG. If I want a bigger stone for essentially the same Amount of $$ I would go for the WF stone. :p

 

[neatfreak]

Really, they both look great. If you are already questioning the "mind clean" thing though, I''d go with the VS2. The size difference is really minimal.

 

[AprilBaby]

I would take the bigger one

 

[MonkeyMike]

Date: 10/7/2008 7:47:04 PM
Author: Stone-cold11
I am guessing since you ask WF to reserve for you, you have ask them to check if it is eye-clean?


Size wise I would say they are not easy to tell apart. Both are beautiful stones so going either way is ok with me. Just depends on my priorities I guess, like for you it is mind-clean or to save a few bucks, then I would go GOG. If I want a bigger stone for essentially the same Amount of $$ I would go for the WF stone. :p

Yeah, James did say that it was eye clean. I do know that in the 40X you can see the inclusions off the table, but the cloud in the table is hard to see. If I talk to him tomorrow, I will ask again, just to be sure.

The one thing against the GOG stone is the table is a bit small.
Both are rated at 1.4 on the HCA, but the WF stone is E/E/E/VG and the GOG stone is E/E/VG/VG.

~mike

 

[stone-cold11]

That said, I would probably go for the WF stone then.

 

[Dancing Fire]

Date: 10/7/2008 7:54:14 PM
Author: MonkeyMike

Date: 10/7/2008 7:47:04 PM
Author: Stone-cold11
I am guessing since you ask WF to reserve for you, you have ask them to check if it is eye-clean?


Size wise I would say they are not easy to tell apart. Both are beautiful stones so going either way is ok with me. Just depends on my priorities I guess, like for you it is mind-clean or to save a few bucks, then I would go GOG. If I want a bigger stone for essentially the same Amount of $$ I would go for the WF stone. :p

Yeah, James did say that it was eye clean. I do know that in the 40X you can see the inclusions off the table, but the cloud in the table is hard to see. If I talk to him tomorrow, I will ask again, just to be sure.

The one thing against the GOG stone is the table is a bit small.
Both are rated at 1.4 on the HCA, but the WF stone is E/E/E/VG and the GOG stone is E/E/VG/VG.

~mike

what do you mean ? both of them are 56% table.

 

[MonkeyMike]

Date: 10/8/2008 1:51:45 AM
Author: Dancing Fire

Date: 10/7/2008 7:54:14 PM

Author: MonkeyMike

Date: 10/7/2008 7:47:04 PM

Author: Stone-cold11

I am guessing since you ask WF to reserve for you, you have ask them to check if it is eye-clean?



Size wise I would say they are not easy to tell apart. Both are beautiful stones so going either way is ok with me. Just depends on my priorities I guess, like for you it is mind-clean or to save a few bucks, then I would go GOG. If I want a bigger stone for essentially the same Amount of $$ I would go for the WF stone. :p

Yeah, James did say that it was eye clean. I do know that in the 40X you can see the inclusions off the table, but the cloud in the table is hard to see. If I talk to him tomorrow, I will ask again, just to be sure.


The one thing against the GOG stone is the table is a bit small.

Both are rated at 1.4 on the HCA, but the WF stone is E/E/E/VG and the GOG stone is E/E/VG/VG.


~mike

what do you mean ? both of them are 56% table.

The megascope report for the GOG stone shows 54.7% for the table.

~mike

 

[stone-cold11]

Date: 10/8/2008 6:58:21 AM
Author: MonkeyMike

Date: 10/8/2008 1:51:45 AM

The megascope report for the GOG stone shows 54.7% for the table.

~mike

I would be more incline to belive a table size of 56% as that is also the reported dimension by the Helium scan.

 

[girlie-girl]

I''m totally a mind clean person. That cloud on the SI1 would drive me nutso, even if I couldn''t see it with my naked eyes. LOL For that reason alone I''d pick the GOG stone. If things like that don''t bother you, then I don''t think you could go wrong w/either of these diamonds.

Good luck!