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The stone you picked is by far my favorite of the ones you showed. A real treasure!
Such a gorgeous, lively color! I admire your good taste!
Congrats on your sapphire purchase! That's a big league rock. You clearly have a sharp eye and a great feel for the market.The sparkle is more than the cut. It is also the clarity and/or transparency of the stone.
A stone with a precision cut can still lack sparkle if it is has an inclusion in the stone that can affect brilliance. Also, blue sapphires can be silky of which they appear velvety than sparkly. Some blue sapphires can lose some transparency when heated.
So for the sparkle, you will need a combination of cut, clarity, and transparency (crystal).
Congrats on your sapphire purchase! That's a big league rock. You clearly have a sharp eye and a great feel for the market.
I will also echo some of your comments on precision cutting of colored gems. In my travels in Asia buying gemstones I came to greatly respect the "liberties" often taken by local cutters to bring out the overall beauty of rare materials. And through trial and error of re-cutting native cuts, I found that often a precision makeover succeeded in making the stone LESS pretty!
It's important to keep in mind that the primary value factor in a colored gem is, well, color. If you can get even color AND brilliance, so much the better, but sometimes the two have an inverse relationship. (The same is true of colored diamonds - in most cases dialing up light return results in dialing down color saturation). In darker tone materials that can be a good thing, but altering angles on the pavilion to "precision" proportioning dictated by refractive index can also introduce extinction into an otherwise open, even color that performs in a variety of lighting environments.
Your gem appears to have the best of all worlds. And having spent time watching miners in Sri Lanka sifting for hours in gravel pits to come up with a few shards of corundum, I can attest that an untreated beauty the size of your stone is indeed a MAJOR treasure!
@Seaglow wow wow wow! I remember when you first bought it loose and am so happy you set it! Gorgeous color, and a fantastic size! Hope you are well!
@Seaglow OMG that colour! Congrats, it's beautiful!
After 3 years, I’ve finally had a chance to have the stone set into jewelry. The stone is accentuated by pink and colorless natural diamond melees in a flower design setting.
What a gorgeous ring! And such a beautiful blue. Who made the ring for you? He or she did such a great job. It’s a gorgeous design