Glasgow’s ROX jeweller offers advice on buying the perfect engagement ring ahead of Valentine’s Day

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With Valentine’s Day just around the corner diamond experts at ROX jewellers in Glasgow’s Argyle Arcade have been giving us advice on choosing the perfect engagement ring.

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00:00 So I've got five different engagement rings here. We've got an oval, you've got your Emerald Trilogy,

00:04 your Radiant Cut, your Brilliance with your diamond shoulders, as well as your Pear Cut and

00:09 your Yellow Band. Ovals this past year have been really, really popular, probably our top seller.

00:13 It's kind of a new take on your classic round without being too much of a stylized cut. And

00:18 then you've got your Emerald Trilogy. So your Emerald Cut has got really straight facets,

00:22 giving it a really classic look to it, but having a Trilogy gives you kind of something different,

00:26 a wee bit more glitzy, just different to your regular Solitaire. Your Radiant is very similar

00:31 to your Emerald Cut, but it's fashioned from a round Brilliant Cut, giving it a lot more sparkle,

00:36 so it just gets off a different final look. They've been really in this past year as well.

00:39 Got your classic round as well, for people wanting to go for that more classic look,

00:44 but this one also has your diamond shoulders, giving it a bit more glitz. And then Yellow Gold,

00:48 as I said earlier, has been really, really popular this past year. And your Pear,

00:53 you've got a pointed edge to it, which gives it a much more stylized look. So all of our

00:57 engagement rings here have made to fit wedding bands with matching collections. So you know,

01:02 whichever style you go for, you'll have something that matches it perfectly. We've got a few

01:05 different options as well. There's not just one style that goes with each ring, making it much

01:09 easier to kind of match the bands and the rings together. Carat size is definitely a big thing,

01:14 kind of knowing what type of jewelry your partner wears and kind of how big of a stone they'd like.

01:20 You've got your 3 carat for your oval and your other styles here are 2 carats.

01:24 So yeah, you can kind of go from like, you've got your 0.10s, 0.20s all the way up to 5, 6 carat.

01:31 Different people like the different shapes and they can look different on different people's

01:34 hands as well like that. Always good to come and try things on because sometimes they look so

01:38 different on your hands to how they look in the window. You've got your two types of diamonds.

01:42 So you've got natural diamonds, which are mines, they take millions of years to form

01:46 and obviously have a much longer process. And now you've also got lab-grown diamonds.

01:50 They've really taken the diamond market by storm this past year. They're exactly the same chemically

01:56 and physically. They're made in a completely different way. So they're made in a high

02:00 pressure environment in a laboratory. So it's important to kind of look into both to see which

02:03 fits your preferences more. You get a lot more for your money with a lab-grown diamond.

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