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Hello,
I was wondering if you could help me find an engagement ring. Preferably emerald shape and not as expensive. I don’t understand much when it comes to rings and my budget range is $2,000-3,000. I’d like it look good to the eye. Thank you so much.
There are a couple of rules when buying an emerald cut stone (https://www.diamonds.pro/education/emerald-cut/):
1) The presence of dark areas is called the black windowing effect (caused by the cut). A nice emerald cut diamond shouldn’t have a significant black windowing effect.
2) The depth shouldn’t ideally exceed 74%.
3) Emeralds tend to show their inclusions more than for example rounds. It’s very important to make sure your diamond is eye-clean. Occasionally, you can even find a SI1/VS2 eye-clean emerald.
4) The crown shouldn’t be flat. It would negatively affect the light refraction.
5) Make sure your diamond comes with proper certification. We recommend buying stones with GIA/AGS certs only.
6) A diamond should have pointed culet (AGS) / none culet (GIA). Emeralds don’t have their own official cut scale given by GIA. Some companies use their own internal grades, but we don’t put any stock in those. We just use our own guidelines and strict parameters to find the best stones possible. Therefore, I wouldn’t pay attention to the cut grades you see at all.
Now, it would be a good idea to choose the setting first. Then we can start searching for the perfect diamond to pair it with. Are you looking for a solitaire, pave/side stone or a halo setting?
I was thinking about a solitaire ring setting. I prefer the types of settings from Blue Nile.
I found this: Blue Nile LD14808939
Blue Nile LD14808939
This diamond is unfortunately not a good choice as it has medium fluorescence. That’s a problem on high color grades, it usually makes them hazy in daylight.
Blue Nile LD14365973
I found this gorgeous diamond. It’s nicely cut and absolutely eye-clean, it has no black windowing and would look absolutely colorless in any setting you’d put it into.
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That looks amazing, if I may ask, how can you tell it’s a high color grade?
Your original diamond was a D color (it’s in the title, the description below, and also in the GIA report) which is the highest color grade a diamond can get. There’s no need to go with the highest grade though, in reality, the difference in colors isn’t usually recognizable from anything above an H grade. And my suggestion is a beautiful H color stone.
Thank you so much for your help, you’ve made my ring finding a lot easier!
Happy to help.
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What we love about them:
- No questions asked returns within 30 days of shipment. Blue Nile will send you a paid shipping label to return the ring.
- Lifetime Warranty
- Free Shipping
- Free prong tightening, repolishing, rhodium plating and cleaning every 6 months
- Provide insurance appraisal
- One free resizing within the first year of purchase
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