juxtaposed
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liao|1418318287|3799500 said:have you saw an alex in person? I have saw #5 and #7, and #7 is a better stone (in term of color change). #5 has prob like most indian alex. great fluorescent color, not so great incandescent color. It also has a huge window. As for the other, you shall not expect to get incandescent color close to the pic. expect something with purple as its dominant color. As for the price, I am not sure if david will give discount online, but, for the very least, you can try. I'd like to suggest the price you might want to propose, but I think some other member will be mad. So, you should trust your own judgement.
Try to consider this one as well:
http://www.multicolour.com/detail/?/details/alexandrite/yax766aa/&1396285136
liao said:Honestly, I have not seen any great alex posted in the internet.
liao|1418321440|3799536 said:This one has bad incandescent color and prob w/ its price tag! I cannot remember correctly, but I think David last offer is 190K ish for this one:
http://www.alexandrite.net/gemstones/natural-alexandrite-oval-8-66-faceted_MSAX1122aa/420338/69/0
Chrono|1418323189|3799552 said:The downside with CCG is that the wearer has to baby it whereas alexandrite can be worn everyday without much worry.
LW UV lamb? for what? do you mean SW UV lamb? I don't have LW UV lamb.Marlow|1418323427|3799555 said:This one has bad flourescent color. It has bad picture, but in real life, the incasdescent color is much better than david's:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/GRS-Certified-Natural-Alexandrite-Oval-8-09ct-Green-Red-Color-Change-Gem-/121126063583?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=
Sorry but it is a tiny little bit over budget.......
And have you seen this one live? The fluor color - you used an LW UV lamb???
grayish green to grayish purple....
LoversKites|1418322172|3799543 said:liao said:Honestly, I have not seen any great alex posted in the internet.
Where should people interested in buying alex buy from? Gem shows?
liao|1418321440|3799536 said:This one has bad incandescent color and prob w/ its price tag! I cannot remember correctly, but I think David last offer is 190K ish for this one:
http://www.alexandrite.net/gemstones/natural-alexandrite-oval-8-66-faceted_MSAX1122aa/420338/69/0
Wow really? In the picture the incandescent colour looks lovely but I guess in real life not so much.
And to the OP, yeah anything described as dark I'd shy away from. Even medium dark can be too dark for my taste in alex sometimes.
eastjavaman|1418352128|3799836 said:juxtaposed,
Please read this sticky to understand windows and cut and you will be a better educated buyer.
[URL='https://www.pricescope.com/community/threads/new-to-coloured-gemstone-buying-read-this-first.174284/']https://www.pricescope.com/community/threads/new-to-coloured-gemstone-buying-read-this-first.174284/[/URL]
http://www.ruby-sapphire.com/brilliance_windows_extinction.htm
10k is a healthy budget to buy any good stones; however, it will all boils down to sizes(carats), cut, clarity(inclusions), color(saturation), treatments(enhancements), and tone for color stones. For example, you will probably can get sapphires in bigger size than that of Alexandrites.
Not to be a downer, Alexandrite is a good durable rare stones; hence, they are expensive. However, the color vividness saturation of the stones tend to be weak(the strong ones are really expensive if they exist) as they change color depending of the lighting source, not to mention that cameras that are used to capture their images often times display the stones differently than what we see.
The elderlies here are offering good advices that for novice buyers, it is not recommended to buy an Alexandrite without viewing it in person. As accurate as the picture can be, in daily usage surroundings we tend to get mixed lighting sources from lamps, sun, moon, candles, etc.
Marlow|1418358686|3799885 said:Has anybody here a picture ( not photoshopped) of a VIVID alexandrite???
daylight and incandescent color???
To OP
The trillion is much to dark.
Chrono|1418388095|3799980 said:Minou's post is spot on. You may not have much of a choice when it comes to shape with alexandrites.
1. Good green/teal colouration
2. Good purplish/reddish colouration
3. Good mixed lighting colouration (you will see this colour most of the time, so this is also very important)
4. Good clarity (many are cloudy)
5. Good cut (I'm not even talking great cut but only avoiding major cut issues)
The above are difficult enough and when one is spending $10K, it is difficult for me to recommend an average looking stone for an e-ring.
eastjavaman|1418357211|3799881 said:I should add the word "respected" to the term elderlies, then everyone would want to be one.