Hey!
I was on the search for the same ring at Tiffany's a year or so ago and armed with all of this info! It really wasn't that long of a wait or that hard. A good Tiffany's SA should be able to pull a bunch of available rings and their certificates up for you and then you can decide which one to ship over to you for inspection. I found about 4-5 triple excellent (Tiffany's) rings in my G/VS2 range but one of them just SANG when it came to the "scores"... not the biggest one but a definite winner! Even Ame loved the numbers!
Just be patient... I would say try not to get toooooo worked up about the scores but they are really helpful! My ring just blows my hair back every time I take it out into the sunshine (when it's clean that is! LOL)... it actually hurt my eyes the other day! LOL. Many Tiffany's SA's are educated about diamonds, many are not. Mine wouldn't have volunteered more than the "triple x" but when she realized I wanted the certificates she had no problem giving me print outs of the stats to take home.
Oh and after looking at a ton of Tiffany's vs2 rings I can say they do look totally eye clean to me generally speaking (and that's a big stone too, I wanted 2 carats so there's a lot of "looking glass" on that style of ring!). For the classic setting, as you know (as opposed to say the soleste, which I think is more forgiving in that you can't really see the sides of the stone in that setting), you do want eye clean. I'm very colour sensitive and personally set my "mind clean" bottom at G/H... but I have to tell you the runner up to my ring was an I and it was STUNNING. Unless you held it up to an F or higher it totally looked white and sparkly to me! You can't go wrong with an I or better. I have to say, while their "excellent" grading system may be a bit "generous", I DO find their colour grades are very stringent and have found my G to be closer to an E/F in most other diamonds I've bothered to hold it up to.
The I has some warmth to it but it is GORGEOUS. It was a tough call but for me the scores sold me on my G/VS2. You're on the right track! Just wait for that perfect one, they are making this ring every day at Tiffany's and mine came right from the studio or whatever they call the place where they set new stones!
ps I just had a soleste pendant in white diamond brought over from the UK even!! (the white is very rare in the US/Canada for some reason!) You can have them launch an international search if you want!
Good luck!!!!
