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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Snowman Cometh, post: 12209669, member: 83302&quot;]You know what they say, third times a charm.</p><p>I&#039;m not seeing that dazzle either. </p><p>This is the video that has the flashlight test. It&#039;s on a loose diamond.</p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]Y0-ySqjhHbQ[/MEDIA]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>My issue with this has always been the original sparkled like a star. You could see it from a block away. This diamond has the highest of the 4C&#039;s, it&#039;s an E or an F. It&#039;s larger than the original, and to me it doesn&#039;t have that sparkle. But, that&#039;s me. I never got to see this in a jeweler&#039;s case where the lighting would be perfect. The jeweler that set the stone, said it was beautiful. I&#039;ve just never seen it in the perfect setting. Because it&#039;s platinum, it&#039;s heavy, so my wife rarely wears it. I thought someone on here who really knows diamonds, can watch the video and say one way or another &quot;yeah, that&#039;s a good diamond, or no, it&#039;s supposed to be doing this&quot;, and then possibly give a reason why. I&#039;m always open to fixing my errors. </p><p><br /></p><p>The original which we both remembered had black enamel around the diamond, and it was stunning. The difference is the rest of the setting. Neither of us remember what the rest of the original setting looked like. But, this is a beautiful art-deco setting. In the original of this, the onyx on the sides were baguettes. I do have a GIA report for it. It&#039;s 100% perfect on paper. If you can&#039;t see a diamond in person before buying it, you should at least (IMO) start with all the correct proportions. At least I would think that would be where you start. </p><p><br /></p><p>I was looking for a pear shaped colored diamond, and found one. I asked for a tweezer video. The day the video was made, the owner of the diamond raised the price by $500. The diamond market feels like the wild west. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Thank you. The person who set it, told me it was a beautiful diamond. When it wasn&#039;t in the setting, I thought it was a great diamond. On paper it&#039;s a perfect diamond. In the ring (for me) it just loses something. What I&#039;m seeing might be absolutely normal. But, that original in Macy&#039;s was really something. Of course, I only saw it in the window with the sun shining on it, and probably lighting from the sides.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I have the GIA report. It&#039;s a top of the line diamond. Which is why I&#039;m wondering why I don&#039;t like it in the ring. </p><p><br /></p><p>I didn&#039;t know about the cell phone flashlight test till yesterday. I posted it in the first response. Honestly, the first two tests he does, the diamond looks terrible (IMO). It&#039;s the flashlight test where the diamond has some shine, and he&#039;s using an excellent diamond in the example. I can&#039;t imagine what a terrible stone is like, if this is what the best is. </p><p><br /></p><p>I love the setting. I do think the onyx is a bit thick around it. But, if the diamond shined the way it should, it wouldn&#039;t matter.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, it&#039;s a lab. But, there is no difference between lab or natural except the way they&#039;re made. In the earth over millions of years, or in a lab in six months (I think). But, as far as a diamond goes, there&#039;s only two ways to tell a lab from natural. First is the serial number. Labs start with LG. The second is a new machine jewelers have that can look into the stone. But, if you took a lab and natural placed them next to each other, they are exactly the same. Which is why there&#039;s no real reason to buy a natural stone anymore. We&#039;re both in our sixties, it&#039;s not going anywhere. We&#039;re not selling them to recoup some money. </p><p><br /></p><p>On paper this is a perfect diamond. You might have hit it on the head with setting not letting enough light get to the stone. </p><p><br /></p><p>The flashlight test shows the fire of a stone. I posted the video I saw it in yesterday in my first response. </p><p><br /></p><p>The new piece I&#039;m working on is with a pear shaped diamond. If I could even find what I&#039;m looking for in a natural diamond, it&#039;d be the cost of 2 - 3 cars. In lab, it&#039;s not even the cost of an electric bicycle. Yet you&#039;d get the same exact thing. I just hope this new piece turns out nicer than this ring. Though in reality, I might be putting too much fantasy in how this diamond should be. That comes from not really knowing anything about diamonds.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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