I tend to over-research things quite a bit. Thankfully, this led me to this forum that helped guide me on what to do and more importantly, led me to finding IDJ and Yekutial. For background on my journey, here is my main thread and another with the light images of the center stone.
I got the final product in from Yekutial a few days ago after meeting him in NY last week and finalizing the deal. I don't have any experience with these type of purchases, but I think I did reasonably well. I originally wanted to spend $3k, then went up to $5k, then for me personally I found the best tradeoff of quality, value and "bling" came in right around 8-10k. After not so subtly trying to get hints from my girlfriend, it came down to a round brilliant with micro pave on the sides. Then I went nuts in my research and determined in addition to maximizing cut, I really wanted fluorescence. I mean really. The idea of this shapeshifting diamond under certain lights seemed very cool to me, not to mention the bonus of a discount.
Ended up with this 1.7+ MRB, HCA 0.7, 57 table, 61.2 depth, 34 crown, 40.6 pavilion, Medium FL, J, SI1 eye-clean (even though one of the pictures strangely doesn't make it seem like that) rock. Special thanks to PS in general, but specifically Yekutial who was awesome throughout this whole process. And also flyingpig, ac117, msop, and everyone else who took the time to contribute.
So anyway, here are some photos. I'm not very good at taking them and excuse my thumbs, but thought I'd share a few shots until after the proposal (which is still a ways away).
Also a quick GIF I made of the ER under yellow office lighting (and thus the heavy yellow tint):
https://media.giphy.com/media/5YtTQoGMXeR1K/giphy.gif
I got the final product in from Yekutial a few days ago after meeting him in NY last week and finalizing the deal. I don't have any experience with these type of purchases, but I think I did reasonably well. I originally wanted to spend $3k, then went up to $5k, then for me personally I found the best tradeoff of quality, value and "bling" came in right around 8-10k. After not so subtly trying to get hints from my girlfriend, it came down to a round brilliant with micro pave on the sides. Then I went nuts in my research and determined in addition to maximizing cut, I really wanted fluorescence. I mean really. The idea of this shapeshifting diamond under certain lights seemed very cool to me, not to mention the bonus of a discount.
Ended up with this 1.7+ MRB, HCA 0.7, 57 table, 61.2 depth, 34 crown, 40.6 pavilion, Medium FL, J, SI1 eye-clean (even though one of the pictures strangely doesn't make it seem like that) rock. Special thanks to PS in general, but specifically Yekutial who was awesome throughout this whole process. And also flyingpig, ac117, msop, and everyone else who took the time to contribute.
So anyway, here are some photos. I'm not very good at taking them and excuse my thumbs, but thought I'd share a few shots until after the proposal (which is still a ways away).
Also a quick GIF I made of the ER under yellow office lighting (and thus the heavy yellow tint):
https://media.giphy.com/media/5YtTQoGMXeR1K/giphy.gif
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