Please spend my $7000 on diamond studs

[mandraketeck]

How would you spend $7k on diamond studs?

I've spent a bit of time looking and have some ideas, but I'm completely open to suggestions. Probably prefer cut > size > color > clarity

Wife's engagement ring is 2ct AGS I si2

What I've found is that I can get Ideal H&A at about 1.5ctw or Excellent J SI2's that are about 1.8ctw.

I'm bummed to see that pricescope's pair feature seems broken...

I'm talking to GOG, Whiteflash, JamesAllen and just found that blue nile has the best selection of 1.8ctw online.

Thoughts?

Thanks!

-M

 

[heididdl]

All good vendors I would just make sure you get the best cut stones I just went through this and after having two other pairs I spent the money on 3x cut. They are really sparkley. Any of the aforementioned vendors would be fine.

 

[Gypsy]

http://www.briangavindiamonds.com/diamonds/diamond-details/1.030-k-si2-round-diamond-gia-45146653 I'd ask for the certificate number and look it up. If it has a good HCA score (anything under 3) I'd ask BGD to call the owner of the stone and see if it is eyeclean. If it is... I'd get it in and ask BGD to get an idealscope, if it bases I'd ask them to find me a good match for it.

A lot of If's. But I personally would go for 1 carat K GIA Ex/Ex's at eyeclean SI2 with nice idealscope images.

If I couldn't find that. Definitely J's at 90 points.

 

[mandraketeck]

Thanks Gypsy, what were you searching for that led you to this specific stone? (Would like to be self sufficient).

 

[Gypsy]

I just went to BGD and looked for largest stones for 3,500 K and up. There were three. And none of them had the angles just the table and depth. This one is a 60/60 but it also had the best spread. So... it needs more information. angles, hca, eyeclean then IS, then match, if possible.

 

[Andelain]

Here you go, it's going to be hard to beat this pair. http://www.whiteflash.com/loose-diamonds/diamond-pairs-details.aspx?Diamond1=2938288&Diamond2=3019465

Get the PS and wire discount, and you can get them mounted and still be at rhe $7k mark.

 

[diamondseeker2006]

Here you go, it's going to be hard to beat this pair. http://www.whiteflash.com/loose-diamonds/diamond-pairs-details.aspx?Diamond1=2938288&Diamond2=3019465

Get the PS and wire discount, and you can get them mounted and still be at rhe $7k mark.

This would be my choice, too. They have other I SI1 and VS1 stones as well. I like WF because you can upgrade them later if you want. That's what I did! My pair now has .80 each, in fact!