cinnamonstick
Brilliant_Rock
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Good evening to anybody still hanging with this conversation. I am not sure everybody is as excited as I am at the moment to FINALLY have an answer!! I am so much more at peace!!! Still not a billion % sure this is the diamond for me...but man, is it close!
High end store (great diamond selections, best of best in area):
Didn't tell the man too much to avoid influencing. Fully expected him to try to "sell me his" (he was not actually too pushy considering). I simply said "I don't know if this diamond was singing to me and wanted to see more options". ZERO comments on what I felt any issues were.
Left and came back with diamonds:
1) G, SI2, GIA XXX, 2.10, SB
2) J, SI1, GIA XXX, 2.15 , medium fluro
3) "I", SI1, 2.35 or so.....Color was fine. Slightly more warm. Didn't bother me. Too much $24k!!
He took another look at my "H" before he showed me his diamonds. He commented it had a VERY,VERY slight haze. He said it was subtle. ---YEP! This is the +1 for me. I could see it and mentioned it on my earlier post! I purposely didn't mention any issues with clarity to see what he would say (and expecting him to bash it a bit). I asked him "why" he felt the "H" had a slight haze. He said each diamond is made up differently (referenced wood? or trees?) and said it could just be the makeup of the diamond. He didn't think it was necessary the wisps.
He pulled out the J first. It was very nice. I could see the difference between the clarity of the "J" and my "H". SUBTLE difference. Mine looked SLIGHTLY hazy. Slight. Splitting hairs, but it is there. It was a nice colored "J". No can do "J". Good looking though. SPARKLED just like my "H". That is the -1 for me. This "J" was not any more sparkly than my "H" in any lighting situations in the shop. BELIEVE me, I looked. My memory was either wrong (as vender suggested), or the "J" was just crazy. I think my memory is wrong.
Next he pulled out the "G". Interesting. Near same measurements for the diameter at my "H". Didn't study the angles, cuts, crown, etc. More interested in the "personality"/sparkle/clarity. Again, this stone was "clearer" than my "H". SIGHLY. My "H" has a super faint haze. FAINT. I honestly feel most people would not see it. The "G" sparkled, but no more than my "H" in any lighting. Was a SB. Never saw a SB before. Nice diamond. Only real difference to me was it was a bit "clearer".Same sparkle volume and sparkle pattern actually. Looked almost identical BUT, I could pick mine out. We mixed them up a few times and lined the "G" with the "H". I could pick the H bc of the SUPER FAINT haze each time. Had to look hard. It was not very obvious. They were both cleaned on occasion so it was not dirt I was seeing. I was sure the playing field was level. Had him clean my "H" each time he cleaned his diamonds, LOL!
Any curiosity:
"G" (crystal is main inclusion and has "clouds not shown")--eyeclean
http://www.gia.edu/cs/Satellite?reportno=2158168912&childpagename=GIA%2FPage%2FReportCheck&pagename=GIA%2FDispatcher&c=Page&cid=1355954554547
My H:
http://www.jamesallen.com/loose-diamonds/round-cut/2.09-carat-h-color-si2-clarity-excellent-cut-sku-468329
So, would I pay $3k more for the "G" I saw today? I don't think so (stores prices). Will I ask my vendor to locate another SI2, H color(or SI1, I maybe) which is more clear? **Probably**. I need to talk to I D J and find a way to view one last "best choice" for me beside the "H", w/o going to NYC. Will I return this "H" tomorrow. No.
That's it! Wrong about the sparkle, right about the clarity bit fuzzy (tad). I have a picture of the "G" and "H". In the picture they look the same. I could not snapshot the difference to show the slight variance in clarity. Nor can I see it in a videos I took.
High end store (great diamond selections, best of best in area):
Didn't tell the man too much to avoid influencing. Fully expected him to try to "sell me his" (he was not actually too pushy considering). I simply said "I don't know if this diamond was singing to me and wanted to see more options". ZERO comments on what I felt any issues were.
Left and came back with diamonds:
1) G, SI2, GIA XXX, 2.10, SB
2) J, SI1, GIA XXX, 2.15 , medium fluro
3) "I", SI1, 2.35 or so.....Color was fine. Slightly more warm. Didn't bother me. Too much $24k!!
He took another look at my "H" before he showed me his diamonds. He commented it had a VERY,VERY slight haze. He said it was subtle. ---YEP! This is the +1 for me. I could see it and mentioned it on my earlier post! I purposely didn't mention any issues with clarity to see what he would say (and expecting him to bash it a bit). I asked him "why" he felt the "H" had a slight haze. He said each diamond is made up differently (referenced wood? or trees?) and said it could just be the makeup of the diamond. He didn't think it was necessary the wisps.
He pulled out the J first. It was very nice. I could see the difference between the clarity of the "J" and my "H". SUBTLE difference. Mine looked SLIGHTLY hazy. Slight. Splitting hairs, but it is there. It was a nice colored "J". No can do "J". Good looking though. SPARKLED just like my "H". That is the -1 for me. This "J" was not any more sparkly than my "H" in any lighting situations in the shop. BELIEVE me, I looked. My memory was either wrong (as vender suggested), or the "J" was just crazy. I think my memory is wrong.
Next he pulled out the "G". Interesting. Near same measurements for the diameter at my "H". Didn't study the angles, cuts, crown, etc. More interested in the "personality"/sparkle/clarity. Again, this stone was "clearer" than my "H". SIGHLY. My "H" has a super faint haze. FAINT. I honestly feel most people would not see it. The "G" sparkled, but no more than my "H" in any lighting. Was a SB. Never saw a SB before. Nice diamond. Only real difference to me was it was a bit "clearer".Same sparkle volume and sparkle pattern actually. Looked almost identical BUT, I could pick mine out. We mixed them up a few times and lined the "G" with the "H". I could pick the H bc of the SUPER FAINT haze each time. Had to look hard. It was not very obvious. They were both cleaned on occasion so it was not dirt I was seeing. I was sure the playing field was level. Had him clean my "H" each time he cleaned his diamonds, LOL!
Any curiosity:
"G" (crystal is main inclusion and has "clouds not shown")--eyeclean
http://www.gia.edu/cs/Satellite?reportno=2158168912&childpagename=GIA%2FPage%2FReportCheck&pagename=GIA%2FDispatcher&c=Page&cid=1355954554547
My H:
http://www.jamesallen.com/loose-diamonds/round-cut/2.09-carat-h-color-si2-clarity-excellent-cut-sku-468329
So, would I pay $3k more for the "G" I saw today? I don't think so (stores prices). Will I ask my vendor to locate another SI2, H color(or SI1, I maybe) which is more clear? **Probably**. I need to talk to I D J and find a way to view one last "best choice" for me beside the "H", w/o going to NYC. Will I return this "H" tomorrow. No.
That's it! Wrong about the sparkle, right about the clarity bit fuzzy (tad). I have a picture of the "G" and "H". In the picture they look the same. I could not snapshot the difference to show the slight variance in clarity. Nor can I see it in a videos I took.