londonblue
Shiny_Rock
- Joined
- Dec 7, 2004
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I'm back again looking at more sapphires, this time with a clear idea in my mind what i am looking for.. well, in terms of settings that is.
sapphires however.. i have been looking around .. and have seen a lot of crappy ones! i've seen faceted kyanite looking more like sapphires than real sapphires from the same vendor.
but a gem show is coming up this weekend and i'm excited to be checking out some gemstones at one of the larger shows.
Here are the sapphires I've been looking at online:
It seems so futile to attempt to judge the color and performance of a sapphire based on some online images, much less compare sapphires across different vendors. Now my question is if it is possible to make any educated guesses about how other stones from the same vendor or different vendor will perform when I can compare an actual gemstone to it's online image? Hopefully I will be uploading photos by tomorrow or the next day in order to compare.
Yesterday I saw a very nice halo style cushion sapphire ring, it was something like 1.2ct or so, set in a white gold halo style ring and cost around $2.7k. the stone was much better than any i had seen in tiffany's or any other high end mall bm stores. i forgot to ask if the stone was treated however.
The setting I've decided on will be something along the lines of the tiffany's legacy style, which i'm sure everyone has seen more than once around here.
But I was wondering if the bezel setting will darken the sapphire significantly and so should I try to choose a sapphire that's on the lighter side? I'm still trying to figure out what a nice elegant width would be for the halo for an approx 5.5x5.5mm
(images by the end of the week now..)
sapphires however.. i have been looking around .. and have seen a lot of crappy ones! i've seen faceted kyanite looking more like sapphires than real sapphires from the same vendor.
but a gem show is coming up this weekend and i'm excited to be checking out some gemstones at one of the larger shows.
Here are the sapphires I've been looking at online:
It seems so futile to attempt to judge the color and performance of a sapphire based on some online images, much less compare sapphires across different vendors. Now my question is if it is possible to make any educated guesses about how other stones from the same vendor or different vendor will perform when I can compare an actual gemstone to it's online image? Hopefully I will be uploading photos by tomorrow or the next day in order to compare.
Yesterday I saw a very nice halo style cushion sapphire ring, it was something like 1.2ct or so, set in a white gold halo style ring and cost around $2.7k. the stone was much better than any i had seen in tiffany's or any other high end mall bm stores. i forgot to ask if the stone was treated however.
The setting I've decided on will be something along the lines of the tiffany's legacy style, which i'm sure everyone has seen more than once around here.
But I was wondering if the bezel setting will darken the sapphire significantly and so should I try to choose a sapphire that's on the lighter side? I'm still trying to figure out what a nice elegant width would be for the halo for an approx 5.5x5.5mm
(images by the end of the week now..)