In Reply to: Toka First and diamonds posted by Cool on Sunday, 17. September 2006 at 15:35 Bali Time:
I agree, its the risk I took. I left 3 larger and 2 smaller diamonds, with sapphires and circons and they made a ring for me. They also kept my 6 day old wedding ring to copy the style. (I felt naked without it!) It has 12 diamonds, and during March they offered to clean my rings for me. As I was taking one ring off, the band/solder/join snapped so I had to leave that ring with them too. I dont have a trained eye, but my stones appear to be the ones I originally left with them.
My friend left a large milk opal and it is almost certainly the same stone.
A word of warning...
When they made ear rings for me, the posts were too soft and bent. I took them back to have the posts made in 9ct gold.
When they set the opal for Denise, the claws were too soft too.
Make sure that you check that claws and posts are very strong.