Q&A: Help Finding a Round Diamond for a Tapered Solitaire With Around $1,300 Budget

First, your website has been extremely helpful for my search. Thank you already on this.

However, I’m trying to find a diamond for my wife’s present (Classic Tapered Four Claw Solitaire Engagement Ring setting at Blue Nile) with a cost of 1,000€ for the diamond (0.4-0.5 carat, ideal cut). I’m buying from their UK site as we live in Finland and narrowed the search down to this:
Blue Nile LD08110728

What do you think or would you have other options?

Thanks for your help!

Thanks for helping me out! Good catch, didn’t see that it has a wrong certificate attached to it. I asked BN to check it physically together with: Blue Nile LD08407674

to see if the cloud affects brilliance and light performance or is it local. When they get back to me I’ll request the correct one. What do you think about the other one? Does it look hazy/cloudy to you? They have reserved them to me for 48 hours.

Thanks again.

Can Ideal cut also be off? I tried to search only ideal cuts with specific table and depth.

But I agree with the cloud, BN is checking if this is all over the diamond. But no information from them for either one.

Thanks again and I’ll get back to you.

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Just heard back that the 0.46 is eye-clean and the certificate is correct, the color grade is wrong on their page and correct in the certificate. The 0.5 is not 100% eye-clean and has milky tinge.

Do you think the first one is a good one for us? We have it on reserve until tomorrow.

Thanks!

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Sorry for sending so many emails, but I noticed that you are also giving coupon codes for Blue Nile UK. Would you be able to share this with me please?

Thanks again.

Thank you for all the help!

I’ll be using this email address to purchase the ring so you get the credit. And I’ll let you know how the ring looks.

Thanks again!