Jewelry

[Trinity11]

The rep presenting an angel wing diamond ring told us that I2 diamonds the flaws can not be seen with the naked eye. I have my GIA. I1, I2and I3 diamonds the flaws are visible to even the untrained eye. Buyer beware.

QVC claims to partner with the GIA. If so, the vendor needs to know this important piece of information. Also, the host said nothing to correct the misinformation.

[151949]

I suspect those diamonds are so tiny that they can't even be seen with the naked eye - thus you would not be able to see any flaws.LOL.

[IMW]

Critical piece of information. Significant misrepresentation.

[2blonde]

@Trinity11  You are right.  I've been into jewelry for a very long time and have several good books on gems and diamonds.  The I in I-2 stands for "included," so an I-2 diamond has many visible inclusions.  Nearly clear diamonds would be rated as S-1,2 (slightly included) or VS-1,2 (very slightly included) or VVS-1,2 (very, very slightly included).  

[blackhole99]

I remember years ago when I went to trade up with my diamond studs and the sales person called them promotional diamonds.

[Nightowlz]

I'm pretty good at seeing flaws with the naked eye without the loop.

I used to work at Zales back in the 80's in the office. When I was not busy I would take trays from behind the counters to clean the jewelry. I could see the flaws. The manager said I don't see how you can see that without the loop.

I would rather have smaller flawless or near flawless stones then larger diamonds that are cloudy & full of black carbon spots or pepper that you can see.

[Trinity11]

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@151949wrote:

I suspect those diamonds are so tiny that they can't even be seen with the naked eye - thus you would not be able to see any flaws.LOL.

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A trained eye or someone with a good eye will detect flaws. They are probably single cut but an I2 parcel of diamonds placed in a ring will be cloudy looking.

[anin]

thats sound interesting.

[millieshops]

Although I love diamonds, I would not pay for the diamonds in this particular piece of jewelry.  If I were going for it, I'd be perfectly happy to have tiny stones like these are in cubic zirconia.  I'd be looking for sparkle, not the residual value we get from larger, more perfect diamonds. I just don't understand paying for diamonds that size no matter the quality. 

[151949]

@Trinity11  I tried as best I could to count the stones in that ring - I got 48 and probably missed some. There are 14 points( 1/7 C) of diamonds in that ring so divide .14 by 48 and each stone is .002carats. Thus my statement - the diamonds themselves are practically microscopic.