What size diamond?

[pyramid]

What size diamond would you say would look good on a 4.75 size, quite short fingers, height 5''2". I have read before 1 carat looks okay on small fingers but I am just wondering what the ladies who like bigger diamonds think I could get away with. What would be the largest carat weight for short thin fingers?

 

[ZhenyaH]

I'm 5'2" and my ring size is 4 1/2. My ring is slightly over a carat and it's about the right size. Even if I were to get a larger one, I don't think it'd be overwhelming.

 

[diamondlil]

That's a hard question to answer. I'm 5'4" with long, slender fingers. When I got engaged at age 21, the 0.75 ct I received looked very large and was bigger than the majority of my friends' diamonds. Of course shrinkage set in, and now at age 39, I wear a 2 ct. Even that has shrunk over time and looks to be the right size when I look at my hand even though others look at it and think it is huge. I'm pretty comfortable at the 2 ct mark although I could even go marginally larger to a 2.25, but I'd also be okay with a 1.75. I tend to wear larger jewelry in general, so a 1 ct diamond would not flow with the rest of my jewelery. It would look small along side everything else.




DiamondLil

 

[baltneu]

1 ct would be OK on her hand, in fact any diamond would look nice on her hand, it is from you and your heart (yeah, pocketbook too). I think people need to keep within budgets and spending limits, you do not want to overspend and have trouble financing this thing and putting pressure on yourself financially. My lady is 5'6", 5.5 ring size, long slender fingers, I gave her a RB, H&A that is 1.44cts,plat solataire setting. I think it looks big enough, she keeps looking at the "sparkle" and is walking on air!!!

 

[pyramid]

Thank you for your replies. I am, by the way, a female and I am already married. I have been thinking about a 1 carat vvs2 or vs1, f or g colour, H&A but recently everyone on this board seems to be going for size and lowering clarity, colour etc. I personally would not want to go below G or VS1 so think I am stuck at the 1 carat weight and would not want anything over 1.25 carat I think for my hand, not so much for the finger size but for the finger length. It is just tempting when you see people getting bigger diamonds and ofcourse to the naked eye they look the same whichever clarity.

Oh well, I have a year or two yet to wait so I will see.

 

[MichelleCarmen]

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would not want anything over 1.25 carat I think for my hand, not so much for the finger size but for the finger length. It is just tempting when you see people getting bigger diamonds and ofcourse to the naked eye they look the same whichever clarity.
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I'm two inches taller than you with 4.5 finger and the largest that looks good on me is about a 1.2 carat. Two carats looks horrible and literally spans my entire upper finger! lol If I had enough money to afford something larger than a 1.2, I'd instead put the rest of my budget into another piece of jeweler rather than a larger stone (maybe larger diamond earrings

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Have you tried any larger rings on to get an idea of what they look like on you?

Michelle

 

[pqcollectibles]

Good suggestion, MC. Pyramid, you might want to try on different sized diamonds and see what look you like on your hand.

 

[pyramid]

Thank you Michelle Carmen and pqcollectibles.

Yes, I will need to try on some rings to see what they look like as I have never done so. I was thinking the largest I could go would be about 1.20 and as I want good cut, colour, clarity I could never afford a 2 carat. A 2 carat would look too big on my short fingers anyway, I know that without even trying it on.

I think I will probably stick with about a 1.07 carat though.

 

[valeria101]

I have two personal rules for what makes an every-day ring too big: 6-7 mm total height is max I could bear in some models (5mm works best for me); and the width of the stone-carying part should not be more than the finger width - 3mm (less than 10mm in my case). These regard the entire setting, not just the stone - so te rule applies differently to different ring models. Height is the restriction for a solitaire in all this, really. You may want to try on high and low-set rings and see how this works.

There is no limit, in my view, for how big fashion rings can get. A whole different story though.

 

[pyramid]

Thanks valeria101, I have noticed a similar thing. I had a ring with 3 diamonds set with gold bars in between and about 1 mm in height off the finger, this meant that one of the end diamonds looked to me out of line with the other two. I later got a 3 stone ring set higher, diamonds about the same size and it looked okay because of the height allowing the diamonds to taper out at the top, I think. I have discovered since that I really prefer high settings about up to 5 millimetres. Everyone has their preferences but when I put on my very low set rings although more practical I feel they are not as elegant.