Description

Clean, well cut and vivid.

***DETAILS***

Variety: Blue sapphire

Weight: 1.38 ct.

Color: Vivid blue of a medium tone

Shape & cut: Oval, barion cut

Dimensions: 7.66 x 5.38 x 4.26 mm

Clarity: Eye clean to very, very slightly included

Treatments: Standard heat only

Lab report: A full format lab report is included with the stone stating standard heat

***ADDITIONAL INFO***

We’ve been wanting to cut a vivid or royal blue sapphire into one of our favorite barion styles for quite a while. Finding a good candidate stone for that was never going to be easy, since blues of this type get very, very pricey as weight rises and our chosen barion style really doesn’t spare the material at all – it lowers the final yield very substantially. There's simply no way around it – sharply angled straight lines going directly from the girdle to the culet cost a lot of weight compared to the more commonly used gradually angled step facets.

So when we came across an elongated royal blue oval of 1.85 carats that had some issues lighting up due to its deep pavilion, we knew that this was as close to the perfect chance as we were going to get. Our target yield was just over a carat, and the finished stone luckily turned out a good bit over that.

Its brilliance was improved immensely – it now looks sharp and clean and polished. Light return was likewise greatly improved, so now it has no extinction issues.

Traditional cuts are often optimized for maximum color, rather than accuracy – so it wasn’t too much of a surprise when cutting away nearly a third of the initial weight resulted in a lighter tone. The stone is now vivid blue rather than royal blue, but it still has more than enough color left to be considered a very high quality blue sapphire (and what's more, now also has a cut that matches its quality).

The single tiny crystal near the girdle needs light to fall at exactly the right angle to become visible when it’s being viewed up close, so the stone does actually look eye clean 99% of the time – but just for that 1% we called it “eye clean to VVS” in the grading above. In reality however, this is a non-issue even right now when it’s loose, and almost certainly wouldn’t even be a consideration once it’s set.

***COLORS AND ACCURACY***

All of our images are extensively, carefully and thoroughly edited and color-matched to reflect the stones in normal diffused daylight viewing conditions by editing with the stone and the monitor side by side in daylight. Consequently, the colors in the photos are as close as they get to reality when viewed on a normal monitor with a generic RGB display calibration profile - this includes most mobile devices but if in doubt, please always check on a desktop/laptop.

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***SHIPPING***

Tracked and insured shipping is included in the price.

***PAYMENT***

PayPal preferred under $1,000. Over $1,000 a direct bank TT is preferable but PayPal is still an option if their fees are covered.

***RETURNS***

Returns are totally okay but please note that they come minus the insured shipping costs paid to send you the stones. A government-issued invoice signed and stamped by Customs, government valuer-gemmologists and postal agents for stones + shipping comes within every parcel with the exact breakdown of shipping and insurance costs paid on export. Most of the time those amount to $55-60 for sub $1k value stones.

***CONTACT***

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