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Hello! I’m looking to spend roughly $3,500 on a round-cut diamond for my girlfriend’s engagement ring. I read through your articles and while I feel like I could go forward and choose a decent diamond I’d really like to get your advice. I could probably go up in price by maybe $500-700, if there’s a significant difference in quality. The setting I’d like is linked below.
Solitaire Platinum setting:
https://www.jamesallen.com/engagement-rings/solitaire/platinum-2mm-knife-edge-solitaire-engagement-ring-item-7028?a_aid=dmnd1357
Finding a diamond to fit my budget and figuring out a proposal that my girlfriend will find at least somewhat romantic has been a little daunting and I’ve been lagging a bit on the whole process. I have no experience regarding diamonds or jewelry and am afraid of making a bad decision and poor investment.
Thanks for your time and help!
You can get a beautiful ring within that budget. No need to stretch it. I love this diamond for you:
Its bright, eye-clean and superbly cut. It will look great with that setting. What do you think?
I have to say I really like that diamond. I was looking at a number of them on jamesallen and couldn’t find anything that looked better to me. Ideally though I would like to get her something a little bit bigger and I came across this one. What’s your opinion on it – maybe too yellow?
Thanks again for the help! 🙂
K color is too much of a stretch for a platinum setting. Even J is a bit of a risk. But K will definitely look yellow.
Yeah, I can see the slight yellow. It takes a lot of time to look through these! There’s always something wrong. That said I couldn’t find much to criticize on this one – I was even having trouble finding the inclusion at first. What’s your opinion?
That diamond is very poorly cut. It is far too shallow and the table is far too big. I would recommend one of these instead:
www.jamesallen.com/loose-diamonds/round-cut/0.91-carat-i-color-si2-clarity-excellent-cut-sku-234621?a_aid=dmnd1357
www.jamesallen.com/loose-diamonds/round-cut/0.91-carat-i-color-si1-clarity-excellent-cut-sku-223385?a_aid=dmnd1357
I went with your first suggestion. Just wanted to thank you. 🙂
Sounds great. Let me know how it looks when it arrives.
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