The Journal
Notes on gemstones, craftsmanship, and the decisions that make a piece meaningful.
The padparadscha is the rarest of the sapphires, a single stone that holds the balance between pink and orange. Named for the lotus, it is the hardest colour in the gem world to judge. What defines it, and how to know the real thing.
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Whether a stone has been heated changes both its value and its character. What the distinction means, and why the house deals in unheated Ceylon stones.
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From the first conversation to the final setting, a commission is led by the stone and held to the founder's eye. How a one-of-one piece is made.
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The gem fields of Ratnapura have produced the world's finest sapphires for centuries. The place, the families who work it, and why origin begins there.
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