Please help me find a perfect pear

[sjlammer]

I'm finally ready to pull the trigger and pop the question to my lady.

I got burnt by a brick and mortar store, on a previous engagement ring, so I am planning to go online, with all of your guidance of coure. Can you please help me find the perfect Pear to set in a chunky halo.

Color: DEF (my lady is sensitive to color, unfortunately)
Clarity: Eye Clean
Carat: 1.2 - 1.4
Cost: $5,500 - $8,000 (value is more important than a hard line)
Shape: Pear, but not a fat one
Flour: No to Low?

I'd like it to fire and scintillate (NOT the crushed ice look)

I get that you can buy a round online by looking at cut grade, aset and idealoscope, but how do you buy a fancy cut like a pear.

Thank you all so much.

Sean

 

[RetroTreeGal]

Any thoughts on this antique pear that fits your specs?
http://www.jewelsbygrace.com/1-17ct-pear-shaped-diamond-gia-evs1

 

[rockysalamander]

I'm finally ready to pull the trigger and pop the question to my lady.

I got burnt by a brick and mortar store, on a previous engagement ring, so I am planning to go online, with all of your guidance of coure. Can you please help me find the perfect Pear to set in a chunky halo.

Color: DEF (my lady is sensitive to color, unfortunately)
Clarity: Eye Clean
Carat: 1.2 - 1.4
Cost: $5,500 - $8,000 (value is more important than a hard line)
Shape: Pear, but not a fat one
Flour: No to Low?

I'd like it to fire and scintillate (NOT the crushed ice look)

I get that you can buy a round online by looking at cut grade, aset and idealoscope, but how do you buy a fancy cut like a pear.

Thank you all so much.

Sean

Does the budget listed include the setting? If so, can you post an example of what she likes to help build that into your budget? Did you girl say she wanted a pear (they tend to be very much a yes or no thing for folks).

Fancy diamonds (any non-round) are bought on how the look and move. You can see a lot in the high resolution videos. We are an educational board, so we'll be teaching as we go. Folks will post contenders with commentary and what they like or worry about. Eventually, you'll narrow that list and request ASET images. They are always messy and bad looking, compared to good rounds, but they tell us a bit more about light performance. After that, we'll further help you narrow or resume the search. In the end, you'll have to make the call.

This has less weight that your target, but amazing spread. Eyeclean SI2. Beautiful ASET. This is about pear-shape perfection.
http://www.diamondsbylauren.com/index.php/jewelry/102ct-f-si2-pear-diamond-r7488

DBL can make the setting to your specs and this stone is safely in budget. I would ask for a video (and read all the description they wrote about this beauty before you discount it on the basis of the SI2, ok?).

You'll get more suggestions, but this is so pretty I wanted to share right away If you are interested, you might ask DBL if they would hold the stone for 48 hours while you look over the video. They are usually pretty flexible. Tell them PS sent you...

Size 6 finger, this pear as solitaire for a size reference.

 

[RetroTreeGal]

@rockysalamander
Great overall post, but you put the wrong link up. That’s a cushion.

 

[rockysalamander]

@rockysalamander
Great overall post, but you put the wrong link up. That’s a cushion.

Fixed

 

[RetroTreeGal]

Fixed

My god that’s a gorgeous pear.
Like I mean, put that baby on hold now before anyone else finds it.

 

[rockysalamander]

My god that’s a gorgeous pear.
Like I mean, put that baby on hold now before anyone else finds it.

I know...its not too long or too chubby. That ASET look great. DBL has such a great eye for fancies!

 

[cflutist]

Rocky, that is a gorgeous pear with no bowtie!

 

[leukolenos]

This is about pear-shape perfection.
http://www.diamondsbylauren.com/index.php/jewelry/102ct-f-si2-pear-diamond-r7488

Pear shaped perfection is right...soooo pretty.

 

[sjlammer]

Any thoughts on this antique pear that fits your specs?
http://www.jewelsbygrace.com/1-17ct-pear-shaped-diamond-gia-evs1

Thanks for sending that. I don’t love the pronounced culet on that stone

 

[motownmama]

sjlammer - that jewelsbygrace pear has "no culet." Some like the looks and some don't.

 

[sjlammer]

Man that is a beautful Stone. I just wish it was bigger.

The budget is just for the center stone, I’ve budgeted between 2k-3k for the setting.

She likes pears and really slender ovals.

Dang that pear is one of the nicest I’ve seen... I just wish it was bigger.

 

[sjlammer]

sjlammer - that jewelsbygrace pear has "no culet." Some like the looks and some don't.

Oh, Maybe I used the wrong term. It has that “eye” look

 

[rockysalamander]

Whay do you mean by bigger...heavier in carats or nigger spread in mm? Pears will vary greatly at a given weight.But, standard diamond charts will say the weight range of 1.w to 1.5 carats is 8*6mm to 8.5*6.5 mm.The one I posted is 9.43 x 5.78mm. So, it is much longer and a little slimmer.

 

[sjlammer]

[QUOTE="rockysalamander]

you may have had a small typo there... I think you meant bigger

yes, I was hoping for more carats

 

[RetroTreeGal]

yes, I was hoping for more carats

So really, you’re wanting it mentally bigger.
Fancy cut stones are complicated since there’s no standard LxWxD. You need to buy them on spread. A pear of one carat weight may face up much larger than the next with identical carat weight. Perhaps it would help to focus on square millimeters of finger coverage.

 

[Lookinagain]

Oh, Maybe I used the wrong term. It has that “eye” look

Yes, the JBG stone does have a culet; the DBL stone does not.

 

[rockysalamander]

Ack! @Ella...can you fix my typo or remove my post. I can't believe that typo.

 

[rockysalamander]

Here are a few other options,
https://www.jamesallen.com/loose-diamonds/pear-shaped/1.50-carat-i-color-vvs2-clarity-sku-3694678 {9.95*6.51*3.95}
https://www.jamesallen.com/loose-diamonds/pear-shaped/1.32-carat-g-color-vs2-clarity-sku-3882328 {10.18*6.01*3.57; if this has a nice aset, it the largest in spread and over your 1.2 weight goal}***
https://www.jamesallen.com/loose-diamonds/pear-shaped/1.24-carat-g-color-si1-clarity-sku-4312403 {9.71*6.16*3.6}
https://www.jamesallen.com/loose-diamonds/pear-shaped/1.32-carat-i-color-si1-clarity-sku-3089545 {9.64*5.69*3.51; on the fence on this -- hoping for other PSers opinions}

Paging @tyty333, @msop04 @ac117 @mrs-b @valeria101 to cross-check my eyes on these.

 

[tyty333]

Oh, Maybe I used the wrong term. It has that “eye” look

It has a large culet.

 

[sjlammer]

Here are a few other options,
https://www.jamesallen.com/loose-diamonds/pear-shaped/1.50-carat-i-color-vvs2-clarity-sku-3694678 {9.95*6.51*3.95}
https://www.jamesallen.com/loose-diamonds/pear-shaped/1.32-carat-g-color-vs2-clarity-sku-3882328 {10.18*6.01*3.57; if this has a nice aset, it the largest in spread and over your 1.2 weight goal}***
https://www.jamesallen.com/loose-diamonds/pear-shaped/1.24-carat-g-color-si1-clarity-sku-4312403 {9.71*6.16*3.6}
https://www.jamesallen.com/loose-diamonds/pear-shaped/1.32-carat-i-color-si1-clarity-sku-3089545 {9.64*5.69*3.51; on the fence on this -- hoping for other PSers opinions}

Paging @tyty333, @msop04 @ac117 @mrs-b @valeria101 to cross-check my eyes on these.

Rocky, Thanks for posting all of those! I need to be up in the DEF color range. I would love to get into a GHI, but my lady has a sharp eye for color and it displeases her.

 

[FreeDiam]

maybe you will like it, 1.01 f vvs1 amazing stone :
https://www.jamesallen.com/loose-diamonds/pear-shaped/1.01-carat-f-color-vvs1-clarity-sku-3736642

 

[ac117]

@sjlammer This one looks stunning but you'd have to ask for an ASET: https://enchanteddiamonds.com/diamonds/view/P123-04Z219346?

Has potential and gets you the 1.5 mark although not really larger than some of the other stones posted earlier (you could ask JA for a PS discount or advantage discount and pay by wire to get the stone under $8k): https://www.jamesallen.com/loose-diamonds/pear-shaped/1.50-carat-f-color-si2-clarity-sku-4280108

 

[valeria101]

Shape: Pear, but not a fat one

Lovely assignment !

TBC

 

[msop04]

Here are a few other options,
https://www.jamesallen.com/loose-diamonds/pear-shaped/1.50-carat-i-color-vvs2-clarity-sku-3694678 {9.95*6.51*3.95}
https://www.jamesallen.com/loose-diamonds/pear-shaped/1.32-carat-g-color-vs2-clarity-sku-3882328 {10.18*6.01*3.57; if this has a nice aset, it the largest in spread and over your 1.2 weight goal}***
https://www.jamesallen.com/loose-diamonds/pear-shaped/1.24-carat-g-color-si1-clarity-sku-4312403 {9.71*6.16*3.6}
https://www.jamesallen.com/loose-diamonds/pear-shaped/1.32-carat-i-color-si1-clarity-sku-3089545 {9.64*5.69*3.51; on the fence on this -- hoping for other PSers opinions}

Paging @tyty333, @msop04 @ac117 @mrs-b @valeria101 to cross-check my eyes on these.

Ugh... I'm no good at pears. Very few are ever posted that I like... too much mushiness for me. Even when one of our pear gurus says one looks really good, I'm like, "...umm, okay..." LOL Of all the ones listed, I like the one @rockysalamander posted. NO MUSH with that one!!

OP, would your FF want a diamond that was a higher carat WEIGHT but looked SMALLER or a ligher carat weight that looked LARGER? If I'm guessing, she'd want the one that looked larger, despite the weight. But that's my opinion.

 

[farrahlyn]

I'm not terrific at pears but these caught my eye:

https://www.jamesallen.com/loose-diamonds/pear-shaped/1.20-carat-d-color-vs2-clarity-sku-3783134

https://www.jamesallen.com/loose-diamonds/pear-shaped/1.23-carat-f-color-vs1-clarity-sku-4441916

 

[valeria101]

ctd.

I would have never mentioned this one, if relatively slender pears were not so RARE - & this appears particularly beautifully cut, with larger facets & great play of light ... a slender 1.8:1 & not deep (62%) ! What is to be excused ? The weight & the grades ... WWW (1.01 D-IF)

Yes, I can see it surrounded by small RBC - the broader facets of this pear should contrast beautifully with the tiny sparkles of the small rounds in a halo/frame !

TBC

 

[valeria101]

ctd.

& one more on the boring (classical ...) side: WWW 1.1 F/VS

These two pears have the same length, this one is wider by .5mm - which is not nothing. I would still vote for the above - today.

 

[tyty333]

Trying to stick to your request in the DEF larger range...

I really like this one posted by ac117...need to request an ASET for it.
https://enchanteddiamonds.com/diamonds/view/P123-04Z219346?

Like this one posted by Farrahlyn
https://www.jamesallen.com/loose-diamonds/pear-shaped/1.23-carat-f-color-vs1-clarity-sku-4441916

I'm going to go check bluenile to see what they have.
Edit...didnt find anything at BN.

 

[msop04]

Trying to stick to your request in the DEF larger range...

Like this one posted by Farrahlyn
https://www.jamesallen.com/loose-diamonds/pear-shaped/1.23-carat-f-color-vs1-clarity-sku-4441916

The shape of this one is really nice... @tyty333, do you think the pointed side's facets will be mushy? Admittedly, I'm just not used to looking at pears...