She's right behind me. She's been driving herself insane to the point of a small hive. Any advice or help on this perennial question, does size trump all?
My gf is particular. Very particular. We’ve been involved in this process together because she wants a very specific look, one that I would never have thought to pick out. Frankly, I don’t understand the obsession that she and most women seem to have with these shiny little things but the bottom line is I just want her to be happy.
We’ve seen some really bad stones from stores not worth mentioning and some really great stones from a great PS vendor. We finally found a setting that we both really like and we asked the vendor to pull some stones with these specs:
Round brilliant
At least .90 carats (trying to get as close to 1ct)
Will go down to an SI2 as long as it’s eye-clean
Not color sensitive, have seen J stones that faced up white
Cut is most important, either GIA excellent or AGS ideal
The setting is a cushion shaped halo for a round stone.
When we went to see the vendor he had pulled a beautiful stone for us. It was an E SI2, GIA Ex/Ex/Ex. Scores under 2 on the HCA, perfect H&A, great ASET image, and eyeclean. My gf and I both louped it and we couldn’t see anything, it’s also very sparkly and fiery. The only drawback? It’s .82 ct but it faces up well at 6.09mm. The stone is on reserve for us and even though it’s at the top of the my budget, I think it’s perfect.
She loves the stone but is having some doubts. She knows rationally that there isn’t that much of a visual difference between an .8ish and a .9ish ct stone but really wanted to get closer to the 1ct mark. What are your opinions on this? I don’t think it’s possible to find a larger stone that meets all the other criteria of this stone and we would like to stay high in color since it will be going in a halo. I would like to reassure her but think she would really benefit from the opinions of experts such as yourselves.
Has she lost her mind? Has anyone else gone through this? Thanks in advance.
My gf is particular. Very particular. We’ve been involved in this process together because she wants a very specific look, one that I would never have thought to pick out. Frankly, I don’t understand the obsession that she and most women seem to have with these shiny little things but the bottom line is I just want her to be happy.
We’ve seen some really bad stones from stores not worth mentioning and some really great stones from a great PS vendor. We finally found a setting that we both really like and we asked the vendor to pull some stones with these specs:
Round brilliant
At least .90 carats (trying to get as close to 1ct)
Will go down to an SI2 as long as it’s eye-clean
Not color sensitive, have seen J stones that faced up white
Cut is most important, either GIA excellent or AGS ideal
The setting is a cushion shaped halo for a round stone.
When we went to see the vendor he had pulled a beautiful stone for us. It was an E SI2, GIA Ex/Ex/Ex. Scores under 2 on the HCA, perfect H&A, great ASET image, and eyeclean. My gf and I both louped it and we couldn’t see anything, it’s also very sparkly and fiery. The only drawback? It’s .82 ct but it faces up well at 6.09mm. The stone is on reserve for us and even though it’s at the top of the my budget, I think it’s perfect.
She loves the stone but is having some doubts. She knows rationally that there isn’t that much of a visual difference between an .8ish and a .9ish ct stone but really wanted to get closer to the 1ct mark. What are your opinions on this? I don’t think it’s possible to find a larger stone that meets all the other criteria of this stone and we would like to stay high in color since it will be going in a halo. I would like to reassure her but think she would really benefit from the opinions of experts such as yourselves.
Has she lost her mind? Has anyone else gone through this? Thanks in advance.