Hello,
My boyfriend and I would really appreciate some advice on this situation. We bought a diamond from one of the vendors here on Pricescope. The vendor assured us that the diamond, which was an F SI1, was perfectly eye-clean (the exact words were "100% eye-clean).
We had the diamond appraised by Marty Haske. The good news is that he agreed with the GIA's color grading (in fact, he said it was a borderline E). The bad news is, he thought it was an SI2, and he said it was NOT EYE-CLEAN. He located the inclusion with the loupe first, and then could easily see it without the loupe. Once he pointed it out, we can both see it too, though it's not quite as obvious to us - we have to hold it up with the light source behind it and look through it. If we hold it below the light and look down into it, it's much harder to make out. Marty also said that it's a "high relief" inclusion, meaning that it is reflected through the diamond.
We're both disappointed with the vendor for telling us that the diamond is eye-clean, since we can see the inclusion without a loupe. On the other hand, Marty said it might be coverable with a prong (it's a sizeable white crystal, between the table and the girdle, near the crown). And we did pay a good price for it (his guess as to what we paid, even knowing that it was an Internet retailer, was $500 more than what we paid, and we paid $2.5K less than retail, in his opinion).
I have a few questions for any experts or non-experts kind enough to weigh in...
1. Would a high relief inclusion still reflect within the diamond if it was covered by a prong (ie, if much less light were allowed to hit it)?
2. Will a high-relief inclusion affect the diamond's light return? It seems very sparkly to us, but we don't see a lot of diamonds...
3. If you bought what you thought was an eye-clean SI1 and it turned out to be a borderline SI2, not eye-clean but likely coverable with a prong, would you return it?
We need to decide quickly, since we want to order a custom setting, and the diamond's return date will expire while we wait for it!
Thank you in advance for your help!!!!
My boyfriend and I would really appreciate some advice on this situation. We bought a diamond from one of the vendors here on Pricescope. The vendor assured us that the diamond, which was an F SI1, was perfectly eye-clean (the exact words were "100% eye-clean).
We had the diamond appraised by Marty Haske. The good news is that he agreed with the GIA's color grading (in fact, he said it was a borderline E). The bad news is, he thought it was an SI2, and he said it was NOT EYE-CLEAN. He located the inclusion with the loupe first, and then could easily see it without the loupe. Once he pointed it out, we can both see it too, though it's not quite as obvious to us - we have to hold it up with the light source behind it and look through it. If we hold it below the light and look down into it, it's much harder to make out. Marty also said that it's a "high relief" inclusion, meaning that it is reflected through the diamond.
We're both disappointed with the vendor for telling us that the diamond is eye-clean, since we can see the inclusion without a loupe. On the other hand, Marty said it might be coverable with a prong (it's a sizeable white crystal, between the table and the girdle, near the crown). And we did pay a good price for it (his guess as to what we paid, even knowing that it was an Internet retailer, was $500 more than what we paid, and we paid $2.5K less than retail, in his opinion).
I have a few questions for any experts or non-experts kind enough to weigh in...
1. Would a high relief inclusion still reflect within the diamond if it was covered by a prong (ie, if much less light were allowed to hit it)?
2. Will a high-relief inclusion affect the diamond's light return? It seems very sparkly to us, but we don't see a lot of diamonds...
3. If you bought what you thought was an eye-clean SI1 and it turned out to be a borderline SI2, not eye-clean but likely coverable with a prong, would you return it?
We need to decide quickly, since we want to order a custom setting, and the diamond's return date will expire while we wait for it!
Thank you in advance for your help!!!!