For reference if anyone is curious, this is the post with the info for the diamond I am talking about. https://www.pricescope.com/community/threads/help-concerned-with-depth-over-62.47696/.
So I took this baby for a test drive yesterday and thought it was good, but I compared it to some non-ideals at some other crap mall jewelers and although noticeable, my test driven H&A probably couldn''t be discerned from the "not so well cut" diamonds in the jewelery store to anyone that hasn''t looked at !!A LOT!! of diamonds. So I looked at it under various light sources including holding it up while driving in the dark with cars various distances away behind me. While it always sparkled during my tests, sometimes better than others, sometimes it did not. Specific times included in my house under most lights where the lighting was mostly diffused (lamp shade, back to the light, what have you) and at the office (nice symmetry and some sparkle, but overall not at all on fire). In my bathroom with a direct overhead light and under some halogen lighting in my home office, the thing dances so much I can''t tell where the light ends and the diamond begins. It seemed to me that the less the light was diffused and the less "lit up" (halogens with no other light or reading lamp in bedroom) there was, the more it sparkled.
The only time the diamond really wowed me was:
A. When I brought it into Tiffany''s (but that could have been a wow from the price tag I was seeing on one of their diamonds out of the corner of my eye)
B. Under my halogens with no other lighting present
...okay and once when I shined a flashlight on the top of it
Other than that I thought it was alright, yes, it sparkled, but so did the ones in the jewelery store that weren''t as nicely cut (VG or G, just not H&A by any stretch).
So here is my question. Am I expecting too much from this poor guy, or is this normal for a diamond cut so well? And if so, does this mean those others that sparkled so well in the jewelery store, won''t sparkle much at all given the same lighting?
OK, that was two questions, but what I was thinking was that:
Where a not so well cut diamond will sparkle, so will this one, but that doesn''t mean when this one is sparkling, the other will. Also as the lighting conditions change to dimmer environments, the difference in sparkle will become more apparent. Haven''t even wanted to take a less than ideal cut diamond out and have not otherwise been able to compare other than in the stores.
Can those with some smashing cuts please let me know what your observations have been and possibly answer either of my questions?
Thanks in advance
So I took this baby for a test drive yesterday and thought it was good, but I compared it to some non-ideals at some other crap mall jewelers and although noticeable, my test driven H&A probably couldn''t be discerned from the "not so well cut" diamonds in the jewelery store to anyone that hasn''t looked at !!A LOT!! of diamonds. So I looked at it under various light sources including holding it up while driving in the dark with cars various distances away behind me. While it always sparkled during my tests, sometimes better than others, sometimes it did not. Specific times included in my house under most lights where the lighting was mostly diffused (lamp shade, back to the light, what have you) and at the office (nice symmetry and some sparkle, but overall not at all on fire). In my bathroom with a direct overhead light and under some halogen lighting in my home office, the thing dances so much I can''t tell where the light ends and the diamond begins. It seemed to me that the less the light was diffused and the less "lit up" (halogens with no other light or reading lamp in bedroom) there was, the more it sparkled.
The only time the diamond really wowed me was:
A. When I brought it into Tiffany''s (but that could have been a wow from the price tag I was seeing on one of their diamonds out of the corner of my eye)
B. Under my halogens with no other lighting present
...okay and once when I shined a flashlight on the top of it
Other than that I thought it was alright, yes, it sparkled, but so did the ones in the jewelery store that weren''t as nicely cut (VG or G, just not H&A by any stretch).
So here is my question. Am I expecting too much from this poor guy, or is this normal for a diamond cut so well? And if so, does this mean those others that sparkled so well in the jewelery store, won''t sparkle much at all given the same lighting?
OK, that was two questions, but what I was thinking was that:
Where a not so well cut diamond will sparkle, so will this one, but that doesn''t mean when this one is sparkling, the other will. Also as the lighting conditions change to dimmer environments, the difference in sparkle will become more apparent. Haven''t even wanted to take a less than ideal cut diamond out and have not otherwise been able to compare other than in the stores.
Can those with some smashing cuts please let me know what your observations have been and possibly answer either of my questions?
Thanks in advance