

5 White Sapphire Engagement Rings You Can Grab Right Now.The best eye-clean diamond examples I found for sale.The James Allen ring also has fewer carats of diamond (0.12 carats) in the halo than the Zales offer has (0.5 carats of diamonds in the halo). The sapphire is 8圆mm (around 1.5 carats) instead of 10x8mm (around 3 carats). The James Allen lookalike ring is smaller than the Zales offer. Just go here and click on “Shop the Lookalike.” It’s easy to build one on your own quickly. Very few if any sapphires are graded by major third party labs such as the GIA, etc.) (At Zales, you can’t examine each sapphire gemstone you’re considering you just take what they give you from their stock of rings, which are already pre-assembled.)īut James Allen also offers some smaller ones that are great deals. That’s because we don’t have any independent grading of either of these two gemstones. Although the sapphire at James Allen can be examined closely, as an individual stone, I can’t say with great confidence that it is better.Zales has the better price in this case.On the other hand, the one I did find is pretty close, except for the diamonds on the shanks. (James Allen may have a setting which is more closely derived from Diana’s, but I didn’t find it. The style of the Zales setting is closer to the style of Diana’s.Here’s why I think Zales is the better bet in this case: Conclusion: For a 3-carat size, Zales is probably the better bet here, if you want an engagement ring in the style of Princess Diana’s and Kate Middleton’s. But the Zales ring, and Diana’s, has diamonds only in the halo. One difference is that the James Allen setting I found also has diamonds down each shank. (Princess Diana’s ring has 2 carats of total diamond weight in the halo.) This is the two of them together:īoth rings have the same total carat weight of diamond halo: 0.5 carats. Next I found a similar halo setting and added it to the gemstone. And I’ll do a personal search for you for free if you join my email list and ask me to. But I should be able to find something very similar. And of course there may or may not be inventory/listings for exactly the same price. Can I beat that deal by going to my go-to engagement ring retailer, James Allen?įirst I found this 3-carat sapphire. That equates to right around 3 carats of weight, when we’re talking about a sapphire. Zales doesn’t list the carat weight of the sapphires that go into the rings that they sell under that model name. You can see it live here, unless it’s sold out etc. Zales offers one that’s quite pretty for $2,800 But James Allen also offers some smaller ones that are great deals.Conclusion: For a 3-carat size, Zales is probably the better bet here, if you want an engagement ring in the style of Princess Diana’s and Kate Middleton’s.Can I beat that deal by going to my go-to engagement ring retailer, James Allen?.Zales offers one that’s quite pretty for $2,800.
