Dee Jay
Shiny_Rock
- Joined
- Dec 19, 2005
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- 240
I received my beautiful 3 ct oval upgrade for X-mas but the setting is (in my non-expert opinion) just crap. They obviously removed the old head (which was for a 1.33 ct pear) and jammed in a new one to fit this stone. It doesn''t look like the pear side stones were spread apart at all, so the oval sits up more than 8 mm, and the bottom of the band looks "wrinkled."
(The obvious question is why I didn''t get a loose stone and have my regular guy do it in the first place, which is what I really wanted. Unfortunately the diamond seller wouldn''t ship a loose stone--something about insurance?--so I had to let him set it before it went out. I didn''t have a lot of confidence in the quality of the workmanship of that jeweler based on what I had heard, but I hoped for the best... and that is not exactly what I got.)
My easy answer was to just have a whole new *perfect* mounting made from scratch. This morning though I read some horror stories about diamonds getting damaged during resetting. Am I worrying too much and should I leave it in the capable hands of the setter, or should I just learn to love the diamond and overlook the setting?
One final item: There is an inverted natural on the girdle, which is currently right beside--not under--a prong (which I understand is the right place for it to be) and the appraiser I took it to yesterday said the flaw is so small not to worry about it from a structural standpoint. But realistically that must add some sort of danger to the resetting process, although of course I would point it out to the setter.
Knowing how I’ve been with other pieces the setting might become a non-issue over time, but at the moment it’s driving me crazy. (I do have to confess that aside from the obvious height of the stone, I have to take the ring off and scrutinize the thing from a very short distance and at odd angles to notice the things that bug me. So, from the vantage point of a normal personal looking at the ring, there are no obvious issues.)
Oh, what to do, what to do… ? Please give me some advice!