I have a similar story about loosing a stone. Last Christmas my boyfriend bought me a promise ring, just a simple channel set diamond ring in white gold. Valentines day that year, he was looking at my ring and commenting on how dirty it was, so I took it to the sink and started washing it with a soft children's tooth brush. A minute or so into it I felt what I thought was a clod of dirt (I waitressed at the time so it was always dirty), I almost washed it off my finger, but decided to look at it at the last minute. Good thing too, it wasn't dirt, but a tiny diamond off the side had fallen out and was stuck to my finger! So we had the Gordon's warranty on it and took it in to be re-set, a week or so later we went to pick it up from the jewelers. I had it on my finger for no more than an hour, I got home and noticed
another stone had fallen out. Needless to say, I never found that stone. I was devastated, but in the end I ended up getting a much larger ring, because bigger stones stay in the setting better.
