Diamonique question/ big CZ stamp

[Vienna]

I`ve just a few eek items but whenever we go abroad on holiday I wear my eek set instead of my real engagement and wedding ring and eek earrings too . We like to go out and about on hol and you read of tourists being mugged for their jewellery so i won`t risk wearing my platitnum wedding ring and engagement ring. They`d be irreplaceable even if the insurance company coughed up for a new set.

 

[Frazzled]

I know I've said this before but buy the Epiphany or Eternal pieces with small stones, and no one other than expert will be able to tell the difference (or possibly another eek lover!). I regularly wear my eek mixed with real the thing, looks great. Only buy the odd piece of Eternal these days due the price and drop in quality of the silver range.

 

[BurlyBeaR]

How could you even suggest such a thing

ps loving the new bear picture, cant decide if hes a naughty or nice priest:angel:

Naughty. I'm building up to Halloween.

 

[SparklyBarbs]

Naughty. I'm building up to Halloween.

I'm suprised you had to ask YORKO, i would have said naughty

 

[Brissles]

I plunged this year and bought my first eeek. A tanzanite replica surrounded by clear eeek, and to be fair, the setting is so good that it could be mistaked for the real thing when worn.

I bought many 'real' pieces in the days when jewellery was qvc's first love - but was saddened to find out that qvc was stamped inside the rings. When I took one of them t to the jewellers to have it valued, he got very sniffy about qvc, so ever since I have never been sure about the 'real' value of my gold/gems collection.

 

[lynnonthelake]

I`ve just a few eek items but whenever we go abroad on holiday I wear my eek set instead of my real engagement and wedding ring and eek earrings too . We like to go out and about on hol and you read of tourists being mugged for their jewellery so i won`t risk wearing my platitnum wedding ring and engagement ring. They`d be irreplaceable even if the insurance company coughed up for a new set.

Glad you are back Vienna.
Lynn

 

[Tinkerbelle]

My lovely local jeweller isn't snuffy about QVC pieces. He's repaired and altered and resized various pieces over the years. He actually thinks QVC has "educated" his customers in different stones and gems. He usually assumes that those who recognise unusual stones do so because of QVC and other jewellery channels.

His only word of warning is to make sure you know what you're buying and to be happy with the price you're paying.

Brissles ... as long as you love the pieces you've bought their value is there. You'll never really make much profit on them in your lifetime so wear them and enjoy them and let your children reap the rewards of your investments. Or more likely let them love the pieces because they belonged to you.

I'm very much "from the heart" when it comes to jewellery.

 

[boffy]

personally i like my eeek in paticularly the anthony kliger ring i have. its a full eternity with 3 rows of white eeek. top and bottom are small round stones and the middle row baguette cut stones. they have always put cz and dq inside the rings. strangely it helps when i sell bits on e-bay people will always pay more as qvc and diamonique are very good quality.
jewellers are sniffy as they are jelous that you have not spent the money with them and chances are it would cost a lot more if you did.

 

[stratobuddy]

As some of you may have gathered by now (CROWN) I like collecting unusual things. :happy:

Although I don't wear any rings myself, I bought some EEEEEK ones to see what it was like, but have also bought a MOISSANITE ring for the same reason.

I got it as a one-off bargain direct from the manufacturers, although it was still very expensive (18 ct gold from memory). It is supposed to be BETTER than diamond in its sparkliness etc, and is supposed to fool jewellers unless they use a special machine to distinguish it from a diamond.

 

[stratobuddy]

I forgot to say that I also bought an exclusive 150 carat (from memory) EEEEEK stone in a polished wood display case with a glass lid that QVC used to use to "demonstrate" EEEK as it is about the size of a presenter's hand-palm and looked good on camera.

 

[Vienna]

A friend of mine has a moissanite eternity ring and its lovely. Its set in 18ct white gold, a good heavy shank and the stones are roughly about .25cwt apiece, there`s 5 of them in the band and honest to goodness it really looks the part. I think moissanite looks good until you get to the bigger stones and then maybe the green refraction begins to show. Her ring wasn`t cheap, just under £400 but for a similar one with real diamonds it would cost quite a bit more for a total of 1.25 cwt and in 18ct gold.

 

[Sacha]

As some of you may have gathered by now (CROWN) I like collecting unusual things. :happy:

Although I don't wear any rings myself, I bought some EEEEEK ones to see what it was like, but have also bought a MOISSANITE ring for the same reason.

I got it as a one-off bargain direct from the manufacturers, although it was still very expensive (18 ct gold from memory). It is supposed to be BETTER than diamond in its sparkliness etc, and is supposed to fool jewellers unless they use a special machine to distinguish it from a diamond.

This is true, Moissanite being a completely different substance from pure Carbon needs its own tester. Also true that it is superior in its dispersion of light and so gives off masses of fire. Expensive to produce and generally set in 18k gold, it is lovely jewellery but getting rather more costly these days, unfortunately. :thinking:

 

[janie]

i'm still puzzled - is moissanite upmarket cz or something else?

strato - i hope those rings found their way to madame strato

 

[YORKO]

Heres a little friend for him

Naughty. I'm building up to Halloween.

 

[DebraJane]

What I don't understand is why would a company have an entire day of jewellery without first checking that they had brought across their on line ring sizer from the old website? So you see something you like and what size do you buy if you haven't already bought - it defies logic

 

[stratobuddy]

Moissanite was first found in a meteorite (by Dr Moissan I believe).

It was analysed and can now be made artificially. It is silicon carbide, and is only slightly less hard than diamond (the hardest substance known).

From Wiki - - - >

Moissanite was introduced to the jewelry market in 1998.

It is regarded as an excellent fine jewel, with optical properties exceeding those of diamond.

Its ethical production makes it a popular alternative to diamonds.

Moissanite is considered a forever gemstone like a diamond. On the Moh's Scale it is a 9.5 with a diamond being a 10. Moissanite is stronger than a Sapphire or a Ruby.