OK, they don't exist! Well barely, anyway! I looked everywhere for a rose gold scatter ring (sometimes known as a zig-zag ring) and had such trouble finding one that E.B. Horn in Boston is making one for me.
It has been a journey.
Two well-respected Pricescope vendors do scatter rings so I contacted them. The first told me that they don't work with rose gold as the hue is unreliable. It was a pity as I liked their yellow gold scatter ring. Price was $695 for 4mm and .20ctw.
The second Pricescope vendor has 5mm scatter rings for $1090 in rose gold, again ctw of 0.20. So I'm thinking, Excellent! They can make me a 4mm one easily in rose gold, since they do exactly what I want in 5mm rose. However, when I contacted them I was told I could not have 0.20ctw, only .10tcw which is much smaller than I wanted. The reason? They said that on 4mm, the diamonds would have to be that small in order to create a true scatter effect. I was very surprised! I said that the other vendor, (mentioning no names) had images of both a 3mm and a 4mm with ten 0.02 diamonds and they looked fine. The kicker? The vendor wanted $795 for a 4mm ring with a mere 0.10tcw, when every other place I looked at charges in the region of $695 for TWICE the diamond weight, 0.20tcw. I explained that even with the extra cost of custom, I hardly wanted to pay $795 for half the weight of diamonds I can get in the same ring for $695 elsewhere. I was told, "OK, have a good day!"
Very odd!!! Anyway, no matter.
I had also asked Blue Nile for a quote, as they do a scatter ring in platinum. But the quote was four days late and I thought they'd forgotten about it. By the time their quote came in, I was working with E.B. Horn. (BTW I also looked at Gemvara, which has lots of rose gold options but again not exactly what I wanted.)
The deal I got with E.B. Horn is as follows: $640 for a 4mm rose gold scatter ring, brushed matte finish to make the diamonds pop, and then diamonds of .26tcw, so each diamond is 0.026, which I'm very happy about as they're a little bigger than any of the other options available anywhere.
I'll have to reserve judgment as the ring isn't here yet - it'll take about ten days. I'm excited though.
Who would ever have thought that finding a mere 4mm scatter ring in rose gold would be so difficult?? Lots places do thin rose gold bands with a line of about 5 diamonds, but a finding a wider scatter ring in rose is more of a challenge than you might imagine!!
It has been a journey.
Two well-respected Pricescope vendors do scatter rings so I contacted them. The first told me that they don't work with rose gold as the hue is unreliable. It was a pity as I liked their yellow gold scatter ring. Price was $695 for 4mm and .20ctw.
The second Pricescope vendor has 5mm scatter rings for $1090 in rose gold, again ctw of 0.20. So I'm thinking, Excellent! They can make me a 4mm one easily in rose gold, since they do exactly what I want in 5mm rose. However, when I contacted them I was told I could not have 0.20ctw, only .10tcw which is much smaller than I wanted. The reason? They said that on 4mm, the diamonds would have to be that small in order to create a true scatter effect. I was very surprised! I said that the other vendor, (mentioning no names) had images of both a 3mm and a 4mm with ten 0.02 diamonds and they looked fine. The kicker? The vendor wanted $795 for a 4mm ring with a mere 0.10tcw, when every other place I looked at charges in the region of $695 for TWICE the diamond weight, 0.20tcw. I explained that even with the extra cost of custom, I hardly wanted to pay $795 for half the weight of diamonds I can get in the same ring for $695 elsewhere. I was told, "OK, have a good day!"
Very odd!!! Anyway, no matter.
I had also asked Blue Nile for a quote, as they do a scatter ring in platinum. But the quote was four days late and I thought they'd forgotten about it. By the time their quote came in, I was working with E.B. Horn. (BTW I also looked at Gemvara, which has lots of rose gold options but again not exactly what I wanted.)
The deal I got with E.B. Horn is as follows: $640 for a 4mm rose gold scatter ring, brushed matte finish to make the diamonds pop, and then diamonds of .26tcw, so each diamond is 0.026, which I'm very happy about as they're a little bigger than any of the other options available anywhere.
I'll have to reserve judgment as the ring isn't here yet - it'll take about ten days. I'm excited though.
Who would ever have thought that finding a mere 4mm scatter ring in rose gold would be so difficult?? Lots places do thin rose gold bands with a line of about 5 diamonds, but a finding a wider scatter ring in rose is more of a challenge than you might imagine!!
My jewelry is mostly very small. I'm English (married to a U.S.-born British man and we are living in the US) and I do think over there we tend towards much smaller jewelry, for whatever reason. The jewelry throughout North and South America, and the Caribbean, is very big, to me! My things are more like Kate Middleton's jewelry - very delicate.
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