Fancy Colored Diamonds vs. Sapphires of the same color

[Nashville]

http://www.fancydiamonds.net/view_diamonds/3190.htm

This color makes me drool!!!

 

[T L]

Yes, I realize that for a given budget a high end blue diamond will be tiny compared to a high end blue sapphire.
Sometimes size isn't everything.

Not quite, in sizes over a carat, a high end blue sapphire would be anywhere from $20K to $80K/ct, a blue diamond, high six to seven figures per carat.

 

[Leibish & Co.]

Itzik,
Thank you for the information on blue diamond and the great photos. For me, of all of those stones, I prefer the fancy vivid blue by far. The tonality on the others is just too dark for my taste. I love the more pure blue color of the pear. Is that the same pear in your amazing avatar? Can you tell us more about that amazing gem like size, color, is it still available, can we trade our first born children for it?

Thank you Very much for the compliments, i hope it helped to see the difference of the intensities...
As a Vivid lover you are in a very respectable club Vivid Blues are just to die for…
The pics from the post with Oval and the Pear shape are 0.60ct each stone.
The pic with The blue Pear shape on the hand(my profile picture) is a 3ct+(i can't say the exact size since it's not ours anymore and new owner prefers to keep this confidential...) Fancy vivid Blue, and is not available any more, it was sold almost two years ago... not the kind of stone we come across very often, what a Gem it was...

 

[Leibish & Co.]

http://www.fancydiamonds.net/view_diamonds/3190.htm

This color makes me drool!!!

this stone is a good example for issue i uploaded earlier, when the ending of the secondary hue is with "ish" ending Blueish Green, you can see the color of the stone is primary Green, and has a tiny tint of Blueish in it, but if it was Fancy Deep Blue Green, the combination would have been much more noticeable...it wouldn't be Green any more but some combination of Blue and Green(more turquoise color).

this Family of colors, Fancy Deep/Vivid Blue Green and Fancy Deep/Vivid Green Blue sometimes arrive in Aquarium colors, which in my opinion is a true phenomenal of nature.... a real treat for the eyes....

cheers

Itzik

 

[T L]

Thank you Very much for the compliments, i hope it helped to see the difference of the intensities...
As a Vivid lover you are in a very respectable club Vivid Blues are just to die for…
The pics from the post with Oval and the Pear shape are 0.60ct each stone.
The pic with The blue Pear shape on the hand(my profile picture) is a 3ct+(i can't say the exact size since it's not ours anymore and new owner prefers to keep this confidential...) Fancy vivid Blue, and is not available any more, it was sold almost two years ago... not the kind of stone we come across very often, what a Gem it was...

Well, even though it was over 3ct's, I will say that stone knocks the socks of the Whittelsbach and the Hope. It's just to die for. I am so envious of the owner, and as a seller, I know it's your job to sell these things, but I could never part with it

I'm not particularly crazy about the paraiba colored diamonds because to me, they look very artificial in color, but this pear was just really something else.

 

[movie zombie]

good to know that i'm not the only one that uses "glow" as a descriptive for a very high end sapphire...and as a difference descriptive for what happens with a diamond.

these last pictures certainly demonstrate why high end stones command high end prices.

and i'm appreciating the distinction between greyish v. grey.....very informative for those of us on beer budgets and needing to be realistic about tradeoffs.

sigh.

mz

 

[Leibish & Co.]

good to know that i'm not the only one that uses "glow" as a descriptive for a very high end sapphire...and as a difference descriptive for what happens with a diamond.

these last pictures certainly demonstrate why high end stones command high end prices.

and i'm appreciating the distinction between greyish v. grey.....very informative for those of us on beer budgets and needing to be realistic about tradeoffs.

sigh.

mz

I'm glad it helped, I happy you liked the pics,
Regarding Grey and Greish, there are many cases that certain stone got to strict grading by GIA, what I mean is some time there are stone with hardly any visible secondary hue, but GIA will Grade it Grey instead of Greyish(it's relevant for all secondary color in all colors).
When coming to buy a diamond and you are on tight budget, you can look around to see if by any chance the vendor has in stock such a stone,, since the price will be cheaper, but it will have a better color than a similar stone with same grading…….

itzik