Sapphire 1.45 cts, Australia, unheated, untreated, subtly chatoyant
This gem is a beautiful rarity cut from natural Australian rough blue/teal sapphire. We faceted this stone to feature a razor thin chatoyant layer on its uppermost boundary facet, i.e., "the table". (Chatoyance of this kind is due to a rutile/"silk" inhomogeneity found in some sapphires which is responsible for making a star sapphire when more pronounced and the stone is cabochonned.) The result is a blue/teal sapphire with yellow green cross-table with precisely enough chatoyance on the gem's table to give a plainly clean gem that nonetheless exhibits the "winking" effect of a chatoyant stone when viewed in motion, yet so subtly as to appear to be an illusion.
The result is a one-of-a-kind blue/teal quasi-parti color sapphire having subtle yellows and greens showing from some side angles, magically near-invisible chatoyance, and a reflected and refractive brilliance owing to an original, commercially unavailable pixel-cut inspired faceting design. Precision cut and precision polished with choices tailored during cutting to suit this particular stone. Far from the typical rounds.
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This gem is a beautiful rarity cut from natural Australian rough blue/teal sapphire. We faceted this stone to feature a razor thin chatoyant layer on its uppermost boundary facet, i.e., "the table". (Chatoyance of this kind is due to a rutile/"silk" inhomogeneity found in some sapphires which is responsible for making a star sapphire when more pronounced and the stone is cabochonned.) The result is a blue/teal sapphire with yellow green cross-table with precisely enough chatoyance on the gem's table to give a plainly clean gem that nonetheless exhibits the "winking" effect of a chatoyant stone when viewed in motion, yet so subtly as to appear to be an illusion.
The result is a one-of-a-kind blue/teal quasi-parti color sapphire having subtle yellows and greens showing from some side angles, magically near-invisible chatoyance, and a reflected and refractive brilliance owing to an original, commercially unavailable pixel-cut inspired faceting design. Precision cut and precision polished with choices tailored during cutting to suit this particular stone. Far from the typical rounds.
https://youtube.com/shorts/xd4tgEWexCk?feature=share
#SubtlyChatoyant
Shipping to continental US only. (For shipping elsewhere, please contact before purchase to make shipping plans.)
This gem is a beautiful rarity cut from natural Australian rough blue/teal sapphire. We faceted this stone to feature a razor thin chatoyant layer on its uppermost boundary facet, i.e., "the table". (Chatoyance of this kind is due to a rutile/"silk" inhomogeneity found in some sapphires which is responsible for making a star sapphire when more pronounced and the stone is cabochonned.) The result is a blue/teal sapphire with yellow green cross-table with precisely enough chatoyance on the gem's table to give a plainly clean gem that nonetheless exhibits the "winking" effect of a chatoyant stone when viewed in motion, yet so subtly as to appear to be an illusion.
The result is a one-of-a-kind blue/teal quasi-parti color sapphire having subtle yellows and greens showing from some side angles, magically near-invisible chatoyance, and a reflected and refractive brilliance owing to an original, commercially unavailable pixel-cut inspired faceting design. Precision cut and precision polished with choices tailored during cutting to suit this particular stone. Far from the typical rounds.
https://youtube.com/shorts/xd4tgEWexCk?feature=share
#SubtlyChatoyant
Shipping to continental US only. (For shipping elsewhere, please contact before purchase to make shipping plans.)