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Rough_Rock
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- Jun 12, 2021
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I am a PS lurker (let’s just admit this first) and the recent lucky recipient of two loose diamonds from my partner’s mother. I think they were at one point earring stones, but they’ve long since been unmounted. My sweetest (future) mother-in-law gifted them to me along with a bracelet and a pair of earrings (for a bridal set), suggesting I use one as a pendant and another as my e-ring stone.
The stones are incredibly close in carat weight (0.9ct ballpark), colour and clarity. Both score below 2 in the HCA. The only differences are in proportions and (as I just discovered today) symmetry.
One has a 34.5/40.2 crown/pavilion combination and the other is a 35.0/40.6. My first thought was - this is absolutely perfect! The 40.2 can go into the pendant and the 40.6 into the ring. So today I took both stones to my jeweller to discuss the settings, and he asked if I wanted to view them through a H&A loupe just for kicks, although these are not H&A stones. And of course… I said yes and then discovered the situation was not as clear-cut as I had envisioned.
The 35.0/40.6 stone meant for my e-ring had a wonky hearts image (my heart just fell when I saw it), whereas the 34.5/40.2 stone was far more symmetrical. The wonky hearts image is below, granted some of it is camera tilt but you can clearly see the hearts are different sizes. I foolishly did not capture the more symmetrical one, but trust me, the hearts were at least the same size and it looked a lot better.
Which one should I pick for my e-ring? The hearts image looks horrendous to me, but at the same time a 40.2 pavilion angle seems way too shallow for a ring. Will such asymmetry impact light return? There is no question that the two stones are definitely going into a bridal pendant and an e-ring respectively (I do not want to disappoint the lovely woman who so generously gifted them to me!) but which to which? Proportions or symmetry?
The stones are incredibly close in carat weight (0.9ct ballpark), colour and clarity. Both score below 2 in the HCA. The only differences are in proportions and (as I just discovered today) symmetry.
One has a 34.5/40.2 crown/pavilion combination and the other is a 35.0/40.6. My first thought was - this is absolutely perfect! The 40.2 can go into the pendant and the 40.6 into the ring. So today I took both stones to my jeweller to discuss the settings, and he asked if I wanted to view them through a H&A loupe just for kicks, although these are not H&A stones. And of course… I said yes and then discovered the situation was not as clear-cut as I had envisioned.
The 35.0/40.6 stone meant for my e-ring had a wonky hearts image (my heart just fell when I saw it), whereas the 34.5/40.2 stone was far more symmetrical. The wonky hearts image is below, granted some of it is camera tilt but you can clearly see the hearts are different sizes. I foolishly did not capture the more symmetrical one, but trust me, the hearts were at least the same size and it looked a lot better.
Which one should I pick for my e-ring? The hearts image looks horrendous to me, but at the same time a 40.2 pavilion angle seems way too shallow for a ring. Will such asymmetry impact light return? There is no question that the two stones are definitely going into a bridal pendant and an e-ring respectively (I do not want to disappoint the lovely woman who so generously gifted them to me!) but which to which? Proportions or symmetry?
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