Size of stone relative to finger width

[Manks]

Has anyone considered the optimal size of an solitaire engagement ring stone relative to the wearer''s finger?

I have formulated a bit of a theory that with a round brilliant cut, a stone with a diameter approximately 1/3 the width of the visible finger looks about right.

Smaller is OK but maybe looks a little.... erm... small, and much bigger looks like overkill (girls will argue with me here).

What do you think?

 

[moremoremore]

I'm more of a 3/4 kind of gal! hehehehe

 

[fire&ice]

You haven't taken into consideration the length of the fingers.

 

[hoorray]

Or the height of the set stone.

 

[Daniela]

F&I,

I was thinking precisely the same thing.

 

[fire&ice]

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On 4/29/2004 7:22:44 PM Feydakin wrote:

I don't know.. I always figured that if your bicep and wrist were strong enough to lift it and show it off it's not too big..
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That is tooo funny!

 

[hoorray]

so if we work out, the sky's the limit?!

 

[chialea]

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On 4/29/2004 7:46:46 PM lop wrote:

so if we work out, the sky's the limit?!----------------

That's what a trade-up policy is for -- you have to work up to it!

 

[sevens one]

It all depends on personal style. But... bigger is better.

nan

 

[GLudlow]

Personally, I think a stone much bigger than 1.5 ct is gaudy on almost any finger. Looks too much like CZ

1/3 sounds good, though.

 

[valeria101]

He he... Not sure about those girls with very long fingers (not one of the lucky), but otherwise 1/3 of finger size can mean lots of things. For me that's 4mm. For a mode reasonable finger - that's what the respective carat tends to approximate.

All in all, I think it makes much more sense to start with a size (diameter) and cost in mind and work out carats, color and clarity from there. And since units of diameter length count in this line of reasoning rather than weight units, I'd rather keep half a mm in mind as the least size difference 'visible' (since it matters little what shows between two stones side by side).

Does this make sense at all ?

 

[valeria101]

Hope you don't hate charts...

... the number next to the little circles give diameter in mm for 60% depth (and looks just about right on my monitor too). Not sure wether depth does allot to size in this range - you'd need about 3% depth variation to account for a tenth of a carat added or taken among these 60% deep pieces.