Hi, I am very new to diamonds and have questions that are probably very basis but I need help.
I am looking into buying a tennis necklace for my wife (price no more than 15K, maybe this means no more than 12-15 ctw) and here are the questions:
1. Which organization will certify tennis necklace since there are so many diamonds on the necklace. For costco jewlery I see IGI certifying tennis bracelets, but reading here, GIA is much better... Does GIA certify tennis necklaces? (seems IGI mentions Color, Clarity and Carrot for each groups of diamonds but not the cut.)
2. Does costco generally have good prices for diamonds and tennis necklaces? In the example above I am looking at tennis necklace at Costco that its IGI mentions 15.3 CTW, all diamonds are VVS1 - VS1, color G-H for $16.999K. What should be the right spec. for a tennis necklace so it holds its value? (never buying diamonds before, I don''t know if prices go up or down after a new one is purchased, any advice?)
3. Besides Costco, where else (either online and stores) I can find good quality and "very good" prices for tennis necklace. Price is very important to me. I live in LA area. Seems buying single solitare diamonds is much easier since you run searches on internet and compare prices. How can I do that for tennis necklaces?
4. Besides diamonds themselfs, what else I should look for in a tennis necklace such a construction of the necklace itself? such as how many prongs, what else?
4. I reviewed some fee schedule for independant appraisers and for tennis necklace they mention for example the cost is $180 and up. How much I should expect to pay for this service? (Since there are so many diamonds, I am not clear what they assess per diamond vs. in case where they only appraise only single diamond). BTW, regarding appraised value, is the appraised value the "street price" that people expect to pay (buying it on line, etc.) or is it a higher level retail price you expect to pay if buying it from say a name brand mall store with full service or is the does the appraised value have another definition?
5. And lastly I see at costcon.com a "Convertable Double Strand Diamond Necklace" which is two necklaces you can connect together for a very long single necklace or wear is as double stand. Unfortunatly it is very expensive because of the tcw is 46. Where can I find something similar with tcw of about 15. Can I just look for two individual strands and assume they can be connected to one another to form a long single starnd of say 33 inches. Or tennis necklaces never come as sets?
Thanks all
I am looking into buying a tennis necklace for my wife (price no more than 15K, maybe this means no more than 12-15 ctw) and here are the questions:
1. Which organization will certify tennis necklace since there are so many diamonds on the necklace. For costco jewlery I see IGI certifying tennis bracelets, but reading here, GIA is much better... Does GIA certify tennis necklaces? (seems IGI mentions Color, Clarity and Carrot for each groups of diamonds but not the cut.)
2. Does costco generally have good prices for diamonds and tennis necklaces? In the example above I am looking at tennis necklace at Costco that its IGI mentions 15.3 CTW, all diamonds are VVS1 - VS1, color G-H for $16.999K. What should be the right spec. for a tennis necklace so it holds its value? (never buying diamonds before, I don''t know if prices go up or down after a new one is purchased, any advice?)
3. Besides Costco, where else (either online and stores) I can find good quality and "very good" prices for tennis necklace. Price is very important to me. I live in LA area. Seems buying single solitare diamonds is much easier since you run searches on internet and compare prices. How can I do that for tennis necklaces?
4. Besides diamonds themselfs, what else I should look for in a tennis necklace such a construction of the necklace itself? such as how many prongs, what else?
4. I reviewed some fee schedule for independant appraisers and for tennis necklace they mention for example the cost is $180 and up. How much I should expect to pay for this service? (Since there are so many diamonds, I am not clear what they assess per diamond vs. in case where they only appraise only single diamond). BTW, regarding appraised value, is the appraised value the "street price" that people expect to pay (buying it on line, etc.) or is it a higher level retail price you expect to pay if buying it from say a name brand mall store with full service or is the does the appraised value have another definition?
5. And lastly I see at costcon.com a "Convertable Double Strand Diamond Necklace" which is two necklaces you can connect together for a very long single necklace or wear is as double stand. Unfortunatly it is very expensive because of the tcw is 46. Where can I find something similar with tcw of about 15. Can I just look for two individual strands and assume they can be connected to one another to form a long single starnd of say 33 inches. Or tennis necklaces never come as sets?
Thanks all
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