More prongs is better if you expect the ring to get banged around a bit, simply because its safer - prongs get bent, but more prongs means much less chance of losing the stone.
But, nothing is stopping a jeweler from putting a really expensive stone in a setting with few prongs.
As far as spotting a fake, a jeweler can do it. They use their loupe, that’s the small magnifying glass thing, and with 10x magnification, they can tell if its real, or CZ, or a piece of glass.
This does get more complicated if you want to also differentiate manufactured diamonds, becase that technology has been improving a lot over the last several years.
July 7th, 2007 at 3:12 pm
The more prongs, the more expesive
July 7th, 2007 at 9:44 pm
Not generally
July 11th, 2007 at 8:09 am
No and it depends.
More prongs is better if you expect the ring to get banged around a bit, simply because its safer - prongs get bent, but more prongs means much less chance of losing the stone.
But, nothing is stopping a jeweler from putting a really expensive stone in a setting with few prongs.
As far as spotting a fake, a jeweler can do it. They use their loupe, that’s the small magnifying glass thing, and with 10x magnification, they can tell if its real, or CZ, or a piece of glass.
This does get more complicated if you want to also differentiate manufactured diamonds, becase that technology has been improving a lot over the last several years.