There is another reason to choose platinum or white gold for your diamond ring setting and it has to do with durability. That’s why it is recommended to set a colorless stone in white gold or platinum if you don’t want to add more color to the diamond. However, such a setting will add some yellow tints to your stone, and although there will be contrast, a white setting would be even more suitable.Īfter all, if you’ve paid so much money for a white diamond, you want to make sure that its color won’t be tinted in any way. Yellow gold works fine for white diamonds as they will still stand out when set in it. If your diamond is perfectly white, then you have more latitude in choosing the color of your setting. More: Here you can pick a diamond ring setting and select a metal for it. When choosing a colored ring setting for yellowish diamonds, make sure the prongs and the metal surrounding the stone are of the same color as the rest of the setting.Įven if the mounting is made of yellow gold, if the prongs or the bezels holding the stone are white, they will still reinforce the yellow tints in the diamond. Other colored gold alloys such as rose gold can also do the trick. You can’t go wrong with such a setting as its color will mask the yellowish tints in the stone and make it look whiter against the gold mounting. The best choice for not-so-white diamonds is yellow gold. See: Selection of eye-clean diamonds vetted for quality

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