Hi. I accidentally flushed a set of diamond earrings that were a gift from my late father. I wore them almost every day for years, and boom, gone in a moment with a small wad of toilet paper I’d used to wipe a water spots off the bathroom sink. After the sheer devastation subsided, I filed an insurance claim for them, and now have a check for their full insured value of $7800.
I want to replace them, but don’t know where to start. I don’t want debeers diamonds, I want ethically sourced. If I was buying with my own money, I wouldn’t get diamonds. But I want to recreate my old ones as closely as possible, so diamonds it is.
They were leverbacks with a dangling bezel-set solitaire in each earring. Simple. They were about 3/4 carat each.
So, where should I start? I know the diamond industry is BS, I hate the idea of paying retail for a diamond because of its actual non-worth. Is there somewhere that I can buy from where I’m not supporting the dumb inflated market?