Jewelry

[Kachina624]

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@Shanus wrote:

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@Kachina624 wrote:

@Shanus.  If that Ripka ring is square with pave Diamonique, I got it sometime last month.  For the price, it's a very nice ring.  I'm not into diamonds, Diamonique, or Judith Ripka; just wanted something new.  I can only imagine the quality of diamonds in a $79., Affinity ring....maybe a little diamond holding the inclusions together?

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@Kachina624  Didn’t mean to hurt your feelings in any way with your Ripka ring. It was twice the price before clearance & a beautiful design.

My Affinity earrings, which are the same as the cushion cut ring, are surprisingly well done. 

The diamonds are clear enough for earrings...if anyone gets that close for a better look, they’re in my space. Would a single Affinity stone be clear enough for a ring, probably not, but would never spend more than I did w/o seeing it up close...certainly not buying diamonds online.

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@Shanus. Feelings not hurt; just a little review in case someone was considering it.  I know it's better than I expected it to be.

[Sammycat1]

Both are fun pieces at similar, decent price points.  I like both.

Sometimes you hit a nice piece of Affinity set in sterling these days and the sparkle is quite good -- when I purchased them when they first started setting diamonds in sterling, however, the diamonds were better quality and so were the mountings. You can see the difference with the naked eye easily. 

Additionally, Affinity's new cushion pieces with pave stones, the stones are much smaller in real life than on television, to the point that sometimes they don't even appear to be stones but pieces of metal.  I had this experience recently.

Today it's more hit or miss than it used to be, though, and their better stones are obviously saved for 14k and 18k settings. If it speaks to you in the Affinity and you have a good feeling about it, go for it. 

[Sammycat1]

Also, I've found identical if not extremely similar pieces on competitors' sites.  See J350381.  I bought this and the matching ring, and they're quite extraordinary.  Last week it was on a another site, brand new, for 1/3 the price I originally paid!  Of course I could not have known this would have happened more than a year after my original purchase, but they're all tapping into the same sellers.

[Fiero Woman]

What a strange question.  Affinity, hands down.

[Shanus]

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@Sammycat1 wrote:

Both are fun pieces at similar, decent price points.  I like both.

Sometimes you hit a nice piece of Affinity set in sterling these days and the sparkle is quite good -- when I purchased them when they first started setting diamonds in sterling, however, the diamonds were better quality and so were the mountings. You can see the difference with the naked eye easily. 

Additionally, Affinity's new cushion pieces with pave stones, the stones are much smaller in real life than on television, to the point that sometimes they don't even appear to be stones but pieces of metal.  I had this experience recently.

Today it's more hit or miss than it used to be, though, and their better stones are obviously saved for 14k and 18k settings. If it speaks to you in the Affinity and you have a good feeling about it, go for it. 

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@Sammycat1  I have lg. diamond studs & wanted something that was not so “in your face”...times when out alone at night, etc. The pave twinkles just enough for me.

[faeriemoon]

I think the crux of the issue is I am more comfortable buying DMQ from TV than diamonds.

I do have one Affinity ring from many years ago that is quite lovely.  I don't trust the brand these days.

I am familiar with the JR pave square ring you reference.  It is a large sculptural ring.  My guess is that the entire ring composition is more impressive than the Affinity pave ring.