Tiffany diamond ring ....help!!!

TPF may earn a commission from merchant affiliate
links, including eBay, Amazon, and others

I highly doubt Tiffany misgraded the stone. To me, and I know you don't want to hear it but, it sounds like its just got some lotion or something on the underside of the diamond that is causing it to look hazy now. Go in to Tiffany and have them professionally clean it and then see if this new "haze" is still there. I'm betting that it won't be.
 
I agree with acrowcounted and ame. The haze probably isn't due to the presence of fluorescence; it's probably caused by dirtiness of the diamond, the bad lighting in the pics, etc.

I have seen some GIA diamonds with strong blue fluorescence and they are breathtakingly beautiful and very clear. So I wouldn't worry about it. I would take it to Tiffany to get it cleaned, as acrowcounted suggested, and then see if the milky haze is still present.
 
I highly doubt Tiffany misgraded the stone. To me, and I know you don't want to hear it but, it sounds like its just got some lotion or something on the underside of the diamond that is causing it to look hazy now. Go in to Tiffany and have them professionally clean it and then see if this new "haze" is still there. I'm betting that it won't be.

This.

Diamonds are made of carbon and they attract dirt. Hair products, skin oils, hand lotions, cooking, soap film... Some of us clean our rings every other day. I take my ring into Tiffany once a month.
 
The top two photos of the white/cream-tone stone are not what a diamond looks like when it is a high color and high flour. To me they appear to be reflecting light off of the table cloth. The diamond shows up the exact same color as the tablecloth and diamonds can reflect their surroundings. I have seen a good amount of high color stones with high flour and from what i have seen, a "milky" appearance is not a milk color, it is a greasy appearance. However i can't know that for sure since i've only seen maybe a dozen at most. The bottom pick does have a slight tinge to it around the lower left of the stone but i can't tell if it is the stone or the photo. Now if it was in-house graded and if there is a posibility (like Ame said) that it is really a strong flour instead of medium then you would most likey have a greasy hue in certain lights. But i can't imagine Tiffany selling a stone like that.
 
I also would not expect a milky/oily Strong Blue to be sold by Tiffany's. It was also my understanding that they rarely buy and sell stones with more than faint flor, as they don't find it a valuable characteristic of a diamond, so they rarely carry stones with flor.

I had a good talk at the Infinity event I went to last night, with John Pollard and a woman who spent 6 years working for Tiffany in the grading lab AND as a sales manager who now works for another company in the industry, and both said they are somewhere in accuracy between GIA/AGS and EGL-USA. Not as strict as the former, but not as "loose" as the latter, and that it varied wildly with the grader as to how strict they were. She said that sometimes Tiffany will regrade a diamond they don't like the grade on from the former, sometimes they think it's lower than GIA, sometimes they thought it should be higher. Some stones will come with both lab reports, the original and the Tiffany. Grading across the board is subjective: even GIA uses a specific minimum baseline for each grade and a lot of things can fall into that grade. We also discussed the various labs that are considered "majors" and how strict they were. GIA/AGS are kind of inbred, but GIA is considered the standard, AGS is less strict than GIA but is still quite strict. The strictest there is out there is IGI-Hong Kong (IGI anywhere else is a JOKE). They are even more stringent than GIA. EGL USA is a little lower than GIA/AGS but EGL itself is a joke also.

This topic was discussed because of people thinking diamonds are investments and that with the constant increasing in demand and pricing relative to supply and mining, people expect that they'll make a killing on a diamond when they go to resell it and they are disappointed very often. We discussed how long it will take to get a solid return on the investment if later planning to resell, if you don't buy a diamond now of the finest possible cut and specs, it will take longer to reap any benefit when you want to resell or your kids or whoever resells, and the lower the quality/cut caliber now, the less of a percentage you will earn in the end, and if the grading report is from a less strict lab, that percentage goes down more. Softer grading has a lower ROI than accurate and reliable "industry standards". We're talking selling it later like 50 years later, not in a few years.

I know a lot of you think I constantly bang on Tiffany, and frankly, I do, I also think it's mostly quite justified. I come from a different perspective on it, and I disagree with a lot of the way they operate. But where they excel is simply in marketing, and making women especially feel they're getting a special piece. You can generally assume what you buy there is of excellent quality, and although it might not always be the most ideal cut standards there are, it's still beautiful and of fine make.
 
I would try cleaning it with a mixture of windex and water, give it a good scrub with a soft bristle toothbrush and see if the haze is still there. make sure you clean under the diamond, many people clena the top fo the diamond but not the culet and under the setting. I have had diamonds look hazey before and it has been because of this...I doubt with a VS2 and med flor it's the diamond itself especially if you didn't notice it right when you bought it.
 
Can you get it cleaned at Tiffany then you can decide if it still looks cloudy to you or not after cleaning.

OR...just dip your diamond into HOT water and use a gentle brush to brush the sides.

I find Tiffany cleaning my engagement really well :) I have the cleaning kit at home from Tiffany but it doesn't do the same job.

I honestly don't think your diamond would look oily or anything when it is clean. I have seen the lowest grades of Tiffany diamonds in store but none of them look like the pic you posted.
 
Doesn't look oily or milky at all!

Diamonds have an affinity for oil...so keep that thing clean or it will look murky. Esp on the bottom. And dry it well all around.
 
Ladies thank you for you're responses. I was wondering do u think I should have went lower colour and no Fluor, many of you seem to find the med Fluor very undesirable. I like the transparency of the d but the Fluor now makes me feel a little disheartened :(
 
Unless I misread, no one in this thread said anything to imply flor is undesirable to any of us. I personally love it.

A D with Medium Blue is my personal holy grail. But you seem to find it inferior, so you should go look at some E and F colored stones without it.
 
Top