icy_jade
Ideal_Rock
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Hi! Managed to take some pics of my new convertible ring/pendant so wanted to share.
Some background story first... but feel free to scroll down if you are only here for pictures!
Here we go...
I never set out to get a yellow sapphire as I really really wanted a blue sapphire and honestly had never seen a yellow stone that captivated me before I met this stone. Yellow just isn’t my color you know? Plus the yellow sapphires I’ve seen are usually too pale, too orangey, or just too yellow if you know what I mean.
But on one of my many trips to see (different) blue sapphires, my jeweller showed me this yellow sapphire along with several other stones and I pretty much fell for it. The conversation literally went like:
Jeweller: do you want to see a lemony sapphire?
Me: what’s lemony?
Him: this 7 ct sapphire
Me: ohhhhh
Pictured with a few other stones I looked at including a blue sapphire
The yellow sapphire struck me as having a nice emerald cut, very clean and sparkly (“very crystal” according to my jeweller). He did advise that the blue sapphire is harder to come by but the heart wants what the heart wants...
I’d even set up a poll in the CS forum to ask folks here for opinions but yeah the yellow stone won. I sort of realized that I really want it (over the blue sapphire) when I gave the stone a pet name.
And so... this unheated 7.1 carat sapphire eventually came home with me. It already had a cert from GIT (in Thailand) certifying its origin (Sri Lanka), being unheated and color stability but before I purchased it, my jeweller also got another cert from my local lab (NGI) certifying the same.
Some background story first... but feel free to scroll down if you are only here for pictures!
Here we go...
I never set out to get a yellow sapphire as I really really wanted a blue sapphire and honestly had never seen a yellow stone that captivated me before I met this stone. Yellow just isn’t my color you know? Plus the yellow sapphires I’ve seen are usually too pale, too orangey, or just too yellow if you know what I mean.
But on one of my many trips to see (different) blue sapphires, my jeweller showed me this yellow sapphire along with several other stones and I pretty much fell for it. The conversation literally went like:
Jeweller: do you want to see a lemony sapphire?
Me: what’s lemony?
Him: this 7 ct sapphire
Me: ohhhhh
Pictured with a few other stones I looked at including a blue sapphire
The yellow sapphire struck me as having a nice emerald cut, very clean and sparkly (“very crystal” according to my jeweller). He did advise that the blue sapphire is harder to come by but the heart wants what the heart wants...
I’d even set up a poll in the CS forum to ask folks here for opinions but yeah the yellow stone won. I sort of realized that I really want it (over the blue sapphire) when I gave the stone a pet name.
And so... this unheated 7.1 carat sapphire eventually came home with me. It already had a cert from GIT (in Thailand) certifying its origin (Sri Lanka), being unheated and color stability but before I purchased it, my jeweller also got another cert from my local lab (NGI) certifying the same.
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