SparklieBug
Brilliant_Rock
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- Feb 23, 2013
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Thank you taking us along, @yssie! I especially love the cicada pieces. I’d wear those in a heartbeat. Also lo-o-ove the Megisti bracelet. Amazing.
Amen to that!One thing's for sure, I'm very very very very glad I bought my gemmies back when I did!!
Thanks you so much for the wonderful tour ! A good friend and client went to Broome for a few days get away and on a whim bought a Kimberly rope necklace and one of the MOP pendants. The Pendant is beautiful- the carving is perfection. The Kimberly is a bit close in design to what I used to make back when I did lots of wood and pearl pieces so it didn’t have a wow factor for me but I will say the pearls used were gorgeous.
As to your pearl - I totally understand the disappointment with the price increase. It’s a total shock . Seriously everything South Sea is up like 2.5x in the past year ! It’s not just discouraging for retail buyers but for we wholesalers as well . It’s sad that it’s priced so many things totally out of reach even with my low
Markup. I just don’t see the prices dropping anytime soon.
I would suggest Yssie that you look for a Button - specifically A High Button. Perfect for a ring and farther down the price ladder of Round ,Near Round , Drop then…. Button . Maybe even Triangle depending on the setting but they would know best what will fit .
Paspaley has found me a pearl for my ring!!! It's off to the workshop
It's a 15-16mm button - a little wider than the original gem quality round. My SA assures me that luster and surface are impeccable
It's got strong pink overtone but a little less blue, so the overall effect is a lighter body with less "purple". And I'm (a bit strangely to be honest?) completely okay with the off-round shape, less vertical protrusion isn't a negative in a ring and more importantly the three-dimensionality of the pearl isn't critical to this ring's design.
Better pic of the button's shape -
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Any update on your ring? I was just looking on the Paspaley website and thought of you.
@newtojewels That's so sweet!! Thank you!!It's such cheerful piece, the sapphires are so rich despite their size - the colours totally steal the show
There are so many little things about this ring that... How do I describe it? They could have made design and fabrication so much easier for themselves by not doing some of this. But they did anyway and I appreciate that so much
Like. The gemstones don't end where the one leaf overlaps the other - they continue all the way underneath. Even though they're not visible at all, except from some really contorted viewing angles. I imagine most vendors wouldn't have bothered
And the colour gradients are painstaking, I tried to take some pics with the loupe - that single tiny purple sapphire on the tip if the leaf vein right in the middle of the loupe is basically invisible IRL, if they'd just used blue I wouldn't have given it a second thought...
And the orange to yellow to green!! With that microscopic deep cognac sapphire right at the tip of the leaf!!
And... The baguettes/carre cuts, they could have made them all the same width but they aren't, they expand and wave - and every single stone is calibrated pristinely, no empty space between stones, no stuttered jumps in size, no mounting machinations...
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Exquisite. With the pearl mounted you really can’t tell that it is a button - it looks perfect.
I hope you love it.
Yssie. Yssie!!! You are killing me with this ring. You have some exquisite works of art in your collection, but dare I say…. This one is the most beautiful. In the first pictures I didn’t comprehend the scale! The huge glorious otherworldly pearl. My god I’m having heart palpitations! I cannot handle it all! The whole design is just to die for.
Now, where are you going to wear this thing?? You will need to attend kore award shows!