Opinion on this diamond ring and does anyone know if it's a fair price?

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It'll be an engagment/eternity/wedding ring all rolled into one.

IF you know about diamond, would this be a fair price? Wonder if we are getting s good deal?

Also, do you like it?

I have an eternity ring that goes all the way around and I agree with the person who said don't get a full eternity band. obv have never said it to DH for fear of looking ungrateful but I am always worried about knocking it, losing a diamond from the underside, etc. 3/4 of the way around is plenty

I much prefer it in white gold.

I have a ring from the same company - can't comment on yours but I shopped around for mine a lot and their price was very reasonable.

I can tell you that the colour and clarity of those diamonds is not good. I would go to a jewellery quarter and get something made with better quality diamonds for around the same price.

I come from a jewellery background.

It does seem like a good price to me.

You might get more sparkle from something like this or this one though I appreciate that they are a lot thinner than the one you've posted.

As a comparison, 3 of these to stack would cost you £2850.

Buzzard is probably right, the problem with small stones is that there are so many of them and they, being small are more difficult to look at individually and from rough they are difficult to polish to the same kind of standards as larger stones. The three things that you would look for in a diamond; cut, colour and clarity are, as others have said, the key. What is difficult to establish with so many stones in a single ring is the clarity or indeed the colour of each stone because each one is so closely linked in the setting to a whole bunch of other stones.

I think that you would get better value from an independent jeweller or antiquarian specialist who is not relying in buying high volumes to reduce prices- go for something unique- as this is a really special ring it does not have to be more expensive but it will be more unusual. Take some time to find what you want within your budget. You could have fun finding the biggest, nicest eternity, solitaire or cluster you can afford.

Some people don't like the idea of antique jewellery, personally I would like it more knowing that it had some kind of provenance or history. I have a ring with 18 smallish (1.6ct) diamonds in the shape of 3 daisies , it was my grannie's, given to her by my grandfather whose mother had given it to him. When I got it I really did not understand what was special about it, or appreciate it but as the years have gone by I have grown to know every stone in the ring. I know where all the inclusions are, all the cracks and imperfections, I can see them with the naked eye because I know them so well- I can see that one is greyish, another blue, a third has a yellow look etc. This might all leave you cold, but you wanted to know about diamonds... you develop relationships with them. They burn like fire sometimes, you can see the whole room reflected in a single facet if you look carefully, yet the facet is only millimeters in diameter.

I hope us lot have not put you off, but instead have spurred you on to enjoy the process of finding the right ring.

I wasn't guessing, the colour and clarity were mentioned in the description, they were at the lower end of quality. Not very clear and lots of inclusions.

Sorry, posted too soon ^ that is the reason they wouldn't be particulary sparkly.

I don't like the ring- sorry- it's rather brash.

Also the diamonds will be tiny diamond 'chips' ( yes ok they are diamonds but they will be really tiny- smaller than they appear in the photo.)

For £2K-3K you could get a lovely single stone maybe 0.7 carat with a good quality diamond, which to me would be far classier. But depends on your taste.

Another consideration with a ring with full channel of diamonds is that it cannot be resized. I chose a single channel band as my wedding ring and get a bit panicked when it gets tight, good incentive to loose weight for me!

I actually like full eternity rings, instead of solitaires, and think that particular ring looks better in platinum than in the yellow gold - but then the diamonds do have to be a better quality.

Bit mean to criticise the style-if OP likes pave rings, suggesting solitaires is not really that helpful.

I originally had diamonds set only partially around my wedding ring, I think just 7, on top but rings move around and the diamonds always found their way out of sight...dh had more diamonds set all the way around for me as a surprise, it's so much better. And it doesn't matter what anyone else likes - you should love it on your finger...I loved so many but they looked horrible on my hand.

For that money- I think that is a cheap ring.

I think you can do a lot better ( and probably have something less prone to losing/chipping stones too.)

Go try some rings on and get an idea of what suits your hand. What you like pictures of might not actually be comfortable for you at all.

That's true - I like rings set with three stones, but quite a lot have to stones themselves too wide for me (thin fingers, left hand's an H, right an I) so even resizing the band the ring still looks too wide on me, and catches my next-door fingers.

Not that keen personally and don't know whether the price is good or not.

Not a helpful comment I'm afraid

I'm not a fan of yellow gold, sorry, however I like the idea of the ring if you could have it made for you. You would definitely get a better value ring if you went down that route.

For comparison, I have a full set eternity ring which has 28 emerald cut diamonds all around (platinum), it works out about 3.4 carats and I know my DH paid about £3K for it last year and for insurance purposes it was valued at £8.5K to replace (I know, I nearly fell down). But that's what getting a good quality jeweller to make your piece for you can do.

Picture attached of mine.