No idea. I wonder if even a trained professional would be able to tell at a glance. Anywhere between 200$ and 200 000$?
Diamonds are strange. First, their high price comes not because they are rare (we have dozens of warehouses packed with the things) but because there was an oligarch agreement to control the supply paired with a marketing campaign go drive up the price.
Worse yet, lab grown diamonds are identical to 'real diamonds' as they are formed by the exact same materials to the exact same shape. The only real way to tell is to have highly specialized equipment and hope the lab grown was marked or assume that a truly perfect diamond is lab made - and that labs wouldn't just mix in some extra dirt. A lab grown diamond costs about a tenth as much. While technically more rare than natural diamonds its supply is not as tightly limited to keep price up.
So what I am saying is, diamonds are a rather unromantic little thing and their value is highly volatile. That should not stop you from loving and appreciating them if you do! But the worth if a natural diamond is, exclusicely, artifical in nature.
Lastly, diamond rings have a funny history! Originally, although a heathen tradition, you tied wreaths of plants instead. As long as they lasted would signify a honeymoon! Chirch eventually adapted it. Some people then began to use iron, copper and long lasting rings instead. The church was... not happy and condemned it. However it stuck. The eternal honeymoom was tempting!
From there some people wanted to also show off their wealth, and the value they attach to their loved ones, here came silver and gold rings. Again, the church was outraged. Love was never a material thing and the view was that turning the spiritually holy into material showing off was outright blasphemy. Nevertheless, it stayed.
Diamond rings happened much later. Africa. We found diamonds in large numbers. The only problem is, they had no use. And there was too many of them for them to be truly valuable. Solution? Stash it all. Release a small amount each year. Voila. Common commodity turned into a premium good.
I realize writing all of this, that I am indeed a nerd for knowing it. Anyway. It is an interesting tidbit. Completely unable to guess the value of that ring, and a trained jeweler could not tell a lab and real one apart either and likely be off by 10x the price if they guessed wrong.
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I wouldn’t say nerd just educated on a topic like others would be would something else aha, but thanks! I’m happy either way with what I get. Especially since they’re slightly cheaper out of America so.
Prices for synthetic diamonds have fallen to a tenth of natural diamonds. I had a quick check of prices and four carat stones are 7000-8000$ grown and 75.000+$ for naturals.
From a glance I don't know could be sterling and cz and worth only a few bucks, diamond and platinum, the most expensive ring I've seen in the flesh was worth a million
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