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fairywings · Dooney & Bourke

Jewelry question...please ease my obsession

ViViDogWear · Kate Spade

Price is sooo dependent on the 4C's and where you get it.

I would check Blue Nile. I saw they have a similar setting only for $1600. Then you add the price of the center stone and that an be anywhere from really cheap to the sky's the limit.

Kitty · Hermes

Would this be for an engagement ring?

The size and quality of the center stone is going to greatly impact price.

I'd guess that ring is probably somewhere around $20k.

HeatherLynn · Gucci

The website had the specs so I recreated that ring at bluenile (or as close as I could).

The estimated price there is $23,630 for the center diamond at a color of E (other specs were the same as the one in the ring above which has a D for color).

For a platinum band with .6ctw of sidestones it is about $3,800 but the band isn't as thick as the one you picked.

Total would be almost $27,500 for something similar, but with a little worse color in the middle diamond. I have found bluenile to have fairly reasonably diamond prices.

-- Edited by HeatherLynn at 15:56, 2008-12-07

Domino13 · Nine West

I showed it to my fiance, who likes jewelry, and who gave me a three carat pear shaped diamond engagement ring, and so he was curious and called to find out the price. $43,500.

fairywings · Dooney & Bourke

Wow that is a lot. Now Domino, your ring was less than that but with more carats?

Domino13 · Nine West

It is a solitaire, without any side stones. Plain platinum band. Really sparkly, high quality, (VVS1?), but is a J color, which made it much more affordable. When you go up to a D color, the price is significantly higher. Not sure of the price he paid. I know he negotiated heavily for it, and was happy with the price he got. I love it.

Elle · Hermes

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Carat Weight 1.58 Color: H Clarity: VS1
Platinum setting

$9,975 @ Shane Company

That's just what they have online, of course! You could always buy the diamond somewhere else and have it set there (the setting itself is only $1k). I like that they have everything loose/unmounted so you can mix and match as you please - I got my ring there and got a much larger diamond set the way I wanted for more than $1k cheaper than anywhere else.

I think you'd have much better luck going somewhere in person to see what they have or could do for you ....