Sapphires are said to symbolize loyalty and are associated with the Goddess of Love - Venus. Sapphires are also known to have powerful and transformative energy helping the wearer to connect to the universe.
Sapphire Buying Guidelines
As with most gemstones, the factors that come into play are color, cut clarity and carat. Amoro believes that in Sapphires color is the most important, and although the most well known color of Sapphire happens to be blue, which itself can range from vivid medium dark violet to a purplish blue, Sapphires can also come in other colors ranging from yellow through to purple.
Blue Sapphires are evaluated based upon the purity of their primary hue. Purple, violet and green are the normal secondary hues found in blue Sapphires. Violet and purple can contribute to the overall beauty of the color, while green is considered a negative.
Sapphires normally contain inclusions, even highly valuable Sapphires. The value of Sapphire depends more on its color, the ideal color of Sapphire would be vivid, pure and highly saturated with no tinge of gray or brown, there would be some inclusions and a complete absences of these make a gem suspect.
Treatment & Enhancement
Clarity and color of a Sapphire improve drastically with heat treatment .Due to the permanent nature of this treatment the gemstones do not alter in quality, only in appearance.
Ceylon Sapphires (Sri Lankan Sapphires)
Ceylon Sapphires are one of the most beautiful and prized gemstones in the world but there are Sapphires that originate from other areas of the world that generally command higher prices.
Amoro believes however that Ceylon Sapphires offer the best combination of beauty for the money, over any other fine Sapphire available regardless of source. Ceylon Sapphires are found in a myriad of colors, but it is the rich blue color that is most famous and most in demand.
Blue Sapphires originating from Kashmir command the highest price due to the fact that sapphire mining has ceased in Kashmir and rarity adds to their appeal. Sapphires mined in Burma are the next highest in market price due to their beauty but also because of their limited supply and rarity value. On the other hand Sri Lanka, despite its political upheavals, continues to be a relatively plentiful source of fine blue Sapphires, while Ceylon Sapphires rival the beauty of the gems from Kashmir and Burma can be acquired at a much more favorable price.
Rich, blue Ceylon Sapphires that are deeply and uniformly saturated in color but still exhibit brilliant flashes of light are considered the most desirable and command the highest prices.
Beautiful Ceylon sapphires are frequently found with an uneven distribution in the intensity of color and require expert cutting to maximize the beauty of the stone. Consequently the cut of each stone is not judged by its uniformity as in Diamonds but in how best the cut maximizes the beauty of the gemstone. No two Ceylon Sapphires are alike and their beauty is assessed through the combination of one’s own unique appreciation of the gemstones color, saturation and life. When evaluating Ceylon Sapphires the 4 C’s of gemstones are taken into account, the color, Clarity, Cut and Carat weight and Amoro offers a 5th C, the C for Confidence.
Amoro’s buyers have extensive Ceylon sapphire knowledge and use their vast experience to select stones that they believe exhibit the best combination of depth of color, saturation and life for the their price. Amoro works exclusively with the world’s leading supplier of Ceylon Sapphires and is confident that its stones originate exclusively from Ceylon (Sri Lanka) when detailed as such.
Each Amoro Ceylon sapphire design is crafted in 18kt gold and comes with its own Certificate of Authenticity
