Finally found the prettiest ruby. How to set it.

[Autumn in New England]

can someone tell me how does GIA specify colors in ruby? are they all labeled red or are they labeled things like pinkish red, all that jazz.

I agree with VividRed that the GIA does not usually specify modifiers when it comes to ruby (i.e. pinkish-red or purplish-red). If there is a noticable orange modifier, they will instead withhold the ruby designation altogether and call it a fancy sapphire.

 

[T L]

oooh interesting when was this? did the vendor take it back?
I bought a Montana Sapphire from awhile back and I was quite pleased. It looked a little blue in the picture and in real life it was a touch green but I do acknowledge that it sort of has a shift on rainy days from quite blue to greenish on other days. It seemed well cut and came out pretty

Both times I bought stones and IDK if you did but I had him send extra videos in multiple lighting. Some of those were the stills from the split pic above. Seeing it in enough lighting I feel like the color is fair. I dont know how picky GIA is though on rubies vs sapphires so I was curious about that. I feel like its a really great ruby for the price. I Hope it comes back as such but seeing several other rubies I feel it stands a good chance.

Here's the sapphire I got from him. The first is his pic and the second is mine on my finger. The GIA reported it as a green blue sapphire. Sometimes it does look greenish, sometimes it looks blue. Pictures seem to tend to make it look more blue, as you can tell looking at the diamonds around it the pic is generally on the blue side. TBH I was pretty surprised GIA came back with greenish first but sometimes it looks a little green idk.

I like a more modern design like this since the ruby is a modern cut.