True or False: a bezel in a round diamond with a small table...

[treysar]

will make the stone look bigger.

Opinions?

PS, I''ve become a total Diamond maniac since I found this website!!

 

[treysar]

oops - i meant a round diamond set in a bezel....

Here's specs, in case they help with the answer:
table, 54%
Depth, 62.3%
WEight, 1.14,
Meas:6.69x6.73x4.18 mm

 

[Jennifer5973]

Both--from a distance it looks bigger esp if white metal but up close, it'll look a bit smaller becasue the bezel covers up a tiny bit of the stone.

PS I have been debating bezel vs basket for a pendant for 2 YEARS (almost driving myself and the forum members nuts in the process) and just decided to go with a white gold bezel with a well-cut 1/2 ct G, VS2 stone--I love the bezel look.

 

[MichelleCarmen]

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On 6/11/2004 5:36:03 PM Jennifer5973 wrote:

Both--from a distance it looks bigger esp if white metal but up close, it'll look a bit smaller becasue the bezel covers up a tiny bit of the stone.

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Yep, I have a .38 bezel set diamond and it has the same diameter of another stone I have which is a prong set .42. Before bezel setting the .38 it looked slightly smaller than the other stone when they were placed up next to each other. The bezel setting does make the stone look a bit smaller when looking up close, but the trick is to have a THIN bezel that barely covers the front of the stone rather than a thick overbearing setting that distracts the viewer from the diamond.

Michelle

 

[valeria101]

Well... there are about 10000 types of bezel settings. If you want a diamond floating on top of the finger in mid-air, that is probably not the description of a bezel setting (although the suspended Lucida bezel and the like seem to do just that: such as THIS ring).

Even if thick, bezels do not have to hide allot of the stone - but rather extend from the diamond's girdle. I think they look very well on small stones adding a "frame" to attract attention (like in THIS ring).

Just the 0.2 for a very convinced admirer of this style