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Introducing Chansey the unheated pink sapphire

Hahaha yay for getting the right title! It wouldn't have been right otherwise.

I think you've already got an orange CS right? Lol thinking it's Charmander now. Maybe yellow next? Hahaha
 
Your ring is the absolute embodiment of Chansey! So gorgeous and amazing setting!
 
mellowyellowgirl said:
Introducing Chancy my white whale. The pink of my dreams. The one I’ve spent five years looking for. I thought I was happy with my red pink heart rubellite (and I do love her) but I had a hankering for a pure, big, sapphire pink that I couldn’t shake. Preferably one that glowed. I knew I didn’t have the budget for a perfect or what PSers call “fine” one so like I always do, I had to settle.

Thing is there aren’t many big pinks to settle on! I looked everywhere over the years. Yes if you have that kind of money you can go to Bayco or Oscar Heyman but I don’t have that kind of money and there were no big pinks to settle on. Plus some of the stuff actually has massive windows. And I don’t/can’t settle on windows! At one point I was ok with settling for a baby pink. Well there are not many big baby pink sapphires to settle on either!

Came close when I was offered a 6 carat heated purplish pink. Logically I should have settled but I wasn’t keen on the heated and the purplish. Then there was a 6.5ct super clean heated pink. Beautiful but I didn’t feel that it glowed and it still had more purple than I wanted. It was also like a 12 by 8 or something which I found oddly skinny.

And then one day out of nowhere Chancy said hello. Initial two videos were somewhat terrible. Inclusions galore. I asked if she looked even worse in real life and was told that the videos were as bad as it gets. It was……a decent number of inclusions but “settleable.” She was/is 10 carats and unheated. And she glowed. Oh by golly gosh she glowed. And no window. And I could forgive the inclusions. I was told to take as much time as I needed to decide but I paid for her that afternoon, inclusions be damned. As with all things I do there are no take backsies. I told myself that if this ended poorly, I would just end my search.

We sent her to Lotus. She wasn’t sold to me as being of any geographical designation and I didn’t care. I just wanted her to be unheated. She came back from Lotus as an unheated Vietnamese sapphire. 12 by 11.7mm. Intense saturation and medium tone. Pure pink sapphire no other colour variations noted.

We thought Vietnam as a location was pretty interesting and unique so we sent her to GFCO for fun. They came back with unheated Mozambique.

I commissioned a dress for her and she’s finally arrived today. Yes there are inclusions but you have to tilt her to find them and I’ve discovered that glow will hide just about anything. Oddly enough every time the vendor snapped a random picture of her in a bag transiting between labs I could not see any of the inclusions that were magnified in their initial videos to me. I kept asking “Is she as included as the videos? Cuz she looks really good in your transit photos” to which they would reply “At some angles there are inclusions. But it’s a beautiful stone.”

I should also add that during this process I would browse pages of various vendors and see vendors making fun of silly people who would rather die on the unheated hill and buy super included, peculiar looking stones. I was all “omg what if I’m one of those idiots???”

And then Avondale mentioned to someone in another thread that at a certain inclusion level the stones are worthless (to paraphrase). Of course I freaked out internally. And it was so hard to do a price comparison because there are so few freaking big pinks to compare.

Still I just trusted the process, trusted that the vendor was an honest person, told myself that if it didn’t work out, big pink was just not meant to be.

She arrived today. She is BEYOND anything I could have hoped for. Her “very visible in video inclusions” need a lot of tilting and the right lighting to be visible in real life. Seriously they must have worked hard at it to get the most terrible videos possible. There looked like iron staining in one of the videos. And I bought it anyway because they told me “It’s beautiful, you’ll love it.”

So without further ado here she is: Chancy, 10+ carats, unheated, 12 by 11.7mm, pink sapphire, the rock of my dreams set with 4mm diamonds and 18k yellow gold.

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Oh. My. God. :kiss2: This is on my white whale list---a pure big pink that does not lean purple at all. You've done it!!!! It's beautiful!!!!! Big congratulations and I look forward to seeing much more of her. Does she have a brother? :mrgreen2: I love her!!! Pink 10 cts is my kind of dream stone!!
 
mellowyellowgirl said:
Thank you lovely mods for changing my title for me!!!

@Crimson @maryjane04 I reported myself because I could not live with the title for poor Chansey being wrong :lol:

@RRfromR I prefer pink too!!! Haha I really thank my lucky stars I’m not (and unlikely to be) chasing after a big red. Unless it’s a rubellite it’s impossible imo.
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All my rubies are borderline pink sapphires, I cannot do anything orange. Purple is fine too, don't show me orange please.
 
I cannot get enough of her! The shape is just perfect. I am laughing too looking at her doing mundane things like pushing a grocery cart. What a juxtaposition!! I love that you are taking her everywhere!!
 
Odyssey44 said:
Oh. My. God. :kiss2: This is on my white whale list---a pure big pink that does not lean purple at all. You've done it!!!! It's beautiful!!!!! Big congratulations and I look forward to seeing much more of her. Does she have a brother? :mrgreen2: I love her!!! Pink 10 cts is my kind of dream stone!!
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Haha unfortunately no. I actually asked “Do you have anymore?”!!! She was so hard to find. So so so difficult. Even comps were hard to do! I think you just keep looking, give yourself lots of time and wait for the stars to align.
 
maryjane04 said:
Hahaha yay for getting the right title! It wouldn't have been right otherwise.

I think you've already got an orange CS right? Lol thinking it's Charmander now. Maybe yellow next? Hahaha
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You know if I were to get a giant yellow, he’d be called Psyduck but I just can’t justify a yellow because I have the sunflower ring. And I am moving back to Ban Island! Absolutely not getting a yellow just so I can call it Psyduck! :lol-2:

Charmander works for the spess though!
 
Hahaha omg I love Psyduck, such a crazy loopy character. Probably fitting for a crazy loopy yellow stone out there.

Yes I remember you had an orange stone lol didn't remember the details but let's call it Charmander.

Now, I'm thinking out loud here. But when you get a smaller rummage version of Chansey, let's call her Jigglypuff hahaha.
 
Odyssey44 said:
I cannot get enough of her! The shape is just perfect. I am laughing too looking at her doing mundane things like pushing a grocery cart. What a juxtaposition!! I love that you are taking her everywhere!!
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Yes! I think my fave photo is on the shopping-cart handle!

What an amazing gem and beautiful ring!
 
Love the name! Love the ring! You are the quintessential Pricescoper because small rings are not for you. It’s perfection.
 
mellowyellowgirl said:
Thank you lovely mods for changing my title for me!!!

@Crimson @maryjane04 I reported myself because I could not live with the title for poor Chansey being wrong :lol:

@RRfromR I prefer pink too!!! Haha I really thank my lucky stars I’m not (and unlikely to be) chasing after a big red. Unless it’s a rubellite it’s impossible imo.
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She is a rose by any other name!
We love her no matter what she’s called.
Here is a rose from Hyde Park for Chansey.

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Some rings that I obsessed over while on my journey

This depressed me! Cuz it has an epic window


Again so many windows


I love this one and was obsessed with it


Was really afraid mine would look like this. It’s very opaque! But it’s Vietnamese so I was a bit worried that mine might look like this. Not a bad colour though…..

GIA Certified Pink Sapphire, Emerald and Diamond Ring set in 18K Rose Gold For Sale at 1stDibs

For Sale on 1stDibs - GIA Certified Pink Sapphire 34.73 carats, Emerald 2.20 carats and Diamond 2.02 carats Ring set in 18K Rose Gold Settings Width: 1.7 cm Length: 1.9 cm Ring
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Omg @Crimson are you going to Japan???? I’m so jelly! I’m heckling hubby to go again but he says we have to go somewhere else! Are you hitting the jewellery shops?

Also I’ll take either of those padparadschas please!

Pssst I moved my comments here cuz I didn’t want to crash the other OP’s thread with my inane comments.
 
mellowyellowgirl said:
There’s a green Squirtle!!!

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Firstly, Chansey is so beautiful, and beautiful on your hand. Congrats!

I don't know a lot about CS, and think that maybe this isn't sapphire?! To my CS-uneducated eye it looks like emerald. If this is sapphire, I'd definitely sign up for one!
 
mellowyellowgirl said:
Omg @Crimson are you going to Japan???? I’m so jelly! I’m heckling hubby to go again but he says we have to go somewhere else! Are you hitting the jewellery shops?

Also I’ll take either of those padparadschas please!

Pssst I moved my comments here cuz I didn’t want to crash the other OP’s thread with my inane comments.
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So considerate of you!
I’m going to the land of the midnight sun!
I love Scandinavia in summer… gorgeous long sunsets, and not as hot as other places (my sister is in Italy, very warm).
The Jewellery scene there is different, more gold and silver, smaller stones, creative metalwork.
 
Crimson said:
So considerate of you!
I’m going to the land of the midnight sun!
I love Scandinavia in summer… gorgeous long sunsets, and not as hot as other places (my sister is in Italy, very warm).
The Jewellery scene there is different, more gold and silver, smaller stones, creative metalwork.
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Lol I’m so foolish!!!! Haha I saw “Sun” and was like “omg Japan!!!!!!”

Enjoy but plzzzzzzzzz check out that jewellery fair for us before you go!!!
 
I LOVE HER! That is the perfect pink!!
 
SparklieBug said:
Firstly, Chansey is so beautiful, and beautiful on your hand. Congrats!

I don't know a lot about CS, and think that maybe this isn't sapphire?! To my CS-uneducated eye it looks like emerald. If this is sapphire, I'd definitely sign up for one!
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Haha yes it does glow remarkably like an emerald. I think it’s something to do with the inclusions. I have another pink sapphire and it doesn’t look like this at all. In these photos the first sapphire is in full sun whereas Chansey actually has very poor lighting right now.

@Autumn in New England would you know why some stones glow and others don’t?

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Woah, now that is absolutely stunning! It would be my white whale as well. I love everything about her and she looks just gorgeous on your hand.
 
mellowyellowgirl said:
Haha yes it does glow remarkably like an emerald. I think it’s something to do with the inclusions. I have another pink sapphire and it doesn’t look like this at all. In these photos the first sapphire is in full sun whereas Chansey actually has very poor lighting right now.

@Autumn in New England would you know why some stones glow and others don’t?

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Definitely! It can be a confluence of several things... high saturation, fluorescence/chemical composition, inclusions/crystal structure, and cut. Some or all of those factors can affect the way a particular stone interacts with light. Whatever the case, this girl has it in spades. Tell your little sis to keep her hands off this one! :geek2:
 
mellowyellowgirl said:
Haha yes it does glow remarkably like an emerald. I think it’s something to do with the inclusions. I have another pink sapphire and it doesn’t look like this at all. In these photos the first sapphire is in full sun whereas Chansey actually has very poor lighting right now.
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@mellowyellowgirl, I was inquiring about what you call the "green Squirtle" ring—is that sapphire or something else? :)
 
SparklieBug said:
@mellowyellowgirl, I was inquiring about what you call the "green Squirtle" ring—is that sapphire or something else? :)
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Whooops! Ha sorry I have pink on the brain and thought you meant Chansey. Yes that’s an emerald. Zambian emerald.
 
Autumn in New England said:
Definitely! It can be a confluence of several things... high saturation, fluorescence/chemical composition, inclusions/crystal structure, and cut. Some or all of those factors can affect the way a particular stone interacts with light. Whatever the case, this girl has it in spades. Tell your little sis to keep her hands off this one! :geek2:
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Oh she did very well out of this adventure

She walked off with this. I thought I’d let her have her inheritance early so she can enjoy it while she’s young.

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