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I have been mulling over possibly upgrading my WF ES for a slight bump in size, but more and more, I am thinking I may just buy another diamond to match the center in my 3-stone (.70ct), and using all 5 diamonds for a 5-stone ring. I really love my WF ES, it’s a stellar performer, and I would have a hard time justifying the extra cost to upgrade it ... it would probably be around $5k more and would definitely require a new setting, so $7K-ish total to basically gain a little under a half carat/.3mm spread. That doesn’t really leave me ‘mind-wallet clean’ when I could buy another .70 ($1500-2k) and a new 5-stone setting all for probably ~$4500.
Here are the diamonds I have; all are J/K, excellent performers in terms of fire, brilliance, etc., good/great HCAs, and either GIA EX or AGS Ideal:
And here are the ‘proposed’ 5 stone sizes (as ‘to scale’ as I can get) laid out together to see how they’d look proportionately; no difference in the top & bottom rows, except the background to visually aid defining the sizes/proportions:
Measurements (in mm) are/would be: 4.5 | 5.6 | 7.17 | 5.6 | 4.4
Do/would these diamonds appear relatively ‘right’ proportion-wise together?
Anyone else have/had a 5-stone with similar sizes/proportions (approx 3.5ctw)? If so, can you please share pics or links to threads with the deets so I can see some IRL examples of how this may look in a finished ring, on the finger, etc?
Anyone else been in a similiar decision-making position and if so, what was your rationale one way or the other?
Here are the diamonds I have; all are J/K, excellent performers in terms of fire, brilliance, etc., good/great HCAs, and either GIA EX or AGS Ideal:
And here are the ‘proposed’ 5 stone sizes (as ‘to scale’ as I can get) laid out together to see how they’d look proportionately; no difference in the top & bottom rows, except the background to visually aid defining the sizes/proportions:
Measurements (in mm) are/would be: 4.5 | 5.6 | 7.17 | 5.6 | 4.4
Do/would these diamonds appear relatively ‘right’ proportion-wise together?
Anyone else have/had a 5-stone with similar sizes/proportions (approx 3.5ctw)? If so, can you please share pics or links to threads with the deets so I can see some IRL examples of how this may look in a finished ring, on the finger, etc?
Anyone else been in a similiar decision-making position and if so, what was your rationale one way or the other?