Which round diamond?

[Miss Sparkly]

Diamond one:
D
I1
Polish and symmetry: Very good
Girdle: thick to slightly thick
Fluorescence: Strong
Inclusions: feather, crystal
Table: 59%
Depth: 59.9
Crown:33.5
Pavilion:40.6
GIA cert
HCA of 1.1 with all excellent

E
I1
Polish and symmetry: Excellent
Girdle: Very thin to medium
Fluorescence: none
Inclusions: feather
Table: 56%
Depth: 60.9
Crown:35
Pavilion:40.8
GIA cert
HCA of 1.4 with three excellent and one Very good (spread)

The I1's look good and I'm not willing to compromise on color - fyi

 

[stone-cold11]

Prefer E from the info available so far, the D might have some obstruction issue.

Any idealscope image?

 

[Miss Sparkly]

I haven't requested any yet as I'm still browsing around. What is obstruction?

 

[diamondseeker2006]

Wouldn't do the very thin girdle on the E. Danger of chipping. You need to list the diameter measurements, too. The first one may lose diameter due to a thick girdle, so you'd want to always look at diameter on any stone.

 

[Miss Sparkly]

http://www.jamesallen.com/diamonds/D-I1-Premium-Cut-Round-Diamond-1414923.asp

D diamond. Would the strong flour. be an issue?

 

[diamondseeker2006]

Diameter looks okay. What kind of project do you have in mind for the stone? The very good cut would worry me. The GIA Excellent range is so broad that I would be hesitant to go to very good in cut. Have they examined the stones and told you they are eyeclean?

 

[Miss Sparkly]

Even thought the HCA came out well? It will be to replace the stone that was removed from my original ering. It was a terrible, deep cut, no sparkle half carat stone. There's really no give in the mounting so I need a stone right about 4.5 mm

 

[Miss Sparkly]

Here is another

http://www.jamesallen.com/diamonds/D-I1-Premium-Cut-Round-Diamond-1414933.asp

I plugged in some of the true hearts and several didn't come out so well in the HCA

 

[diamondseeker2006]

Can you search under ideal cut? I don't think you need True Hearts, but you'll find the excellent/ideal cut stones there. You will have a hard time finding an eyeclean I1 as well. Can you go to SI? Because even at SI2 you'll have to have them check to see if the stones are eyeclean.

 

[diamondseeker2006]

Here are some to look at, but again, SI2's will have to be examined by their gemologist to tell you if they are eyeclean:

http://www.jamesallen.com/diamonds/E-SI2-Ideal-Cut-Round-Diamond-1380250.asp

http://www.jamesallen.com/diamonds/E-SI2-Ideal-Cut-Round-Diamond-1380780.asp

Actually, this one looks really good and is AGS0:

http://www.jamesallen.com/diamonds/D-SI1-Ideal-Cut-Round-Diamond-1193951.asp