An Amazing Pearl

[jshepherd]

Sometimes you happen across a pearl that is just so amazing, you have to do something special with it.

This pearl has quite a story. I brought it to Mexico to show Blaire, Caitlin and Douglas with a few other, similar pearls. It it a color-changing, baroque, metallic freshwater pearl (tissue nuke).

The bag of "special" pearls was swiped from my hotel room and I thought the pearls were gone forever. After returning to LA, Douglas emails me to tell me that someone showed up at his farm trying to sell a bag of pearls that looked very much like the bag of pearls I had brought with me. He got them back!

Blaire and Caitlin talked me into turning this extra special pearl into a ring so I designed a ring to showcase the pearl.

Here it is! It's 18 karat, with just under one carat of VS2 diamonds and .4 carats of pink saphire.

 

[jshepherd]

PS
This one is not for sale

 

[GemGeek]

PS
This one is not for sale

You have to warn us off because it's absolutely gorgeous!

 

[barbie biggs]

PS
This one is not for sale

I should hope not.

 

[pattye]

Gorgeous! Hope it will be on view at the Rukus!!

 

[pearlescence]

amazing pearl and quite a setting.
Hurrah for Douglas

 

[Keshibelle]

*MAGNIFICENT* - the pearl and her setting

 

[jshepherd]

Gorgeous! Hope it will be on view at the Rukus!!

It certainly will. It's going to be on someone's finger!

 

[Kelo]

Wow!!! Got a spare one? lol

 

[Pearl Dreams]

Beautiful! In what ways is it color changing, Jeremy?

 

[jshepherd]

Blaire is here right now taking some shots. I'll try to talk her into posting a few. It looks like a completely different pearl in her shots.

 

[jshepherd]

This is Blaire's shot, the master photographer She captured a lot of green at this angle.

 

[jshepherd]

I just realized, you can see Blaire in the reflection along with a few other of the special baroques.

Beautiful! In what ways is it color changing, Jeremy?

Do you see the way the pearl in this last shot goes from pink to a sort of gold and then into green? The color changes depending on which angle you view the pearl from.

 

[Heidi]

That is some astonishing color! It's good to see different shots to get a sense of that color changing-ness of it.

Just curious - does this lead to marketing/a market for color-change in the same way we see it for some other gemstones?

 

[jshepherd]

It's something one finds all the time in Tahitian pearls and something you see a lot in the fireball freshwaters. I don't know really about a separate market for something like this. Every pearl is so different and individually beautiful. I think they seem to work best in pieces like this ring, where the ring was built for the pearl, not a pearl selected for a setting.

 

[Caitlin]

That is really mirror-like surface!

 

[Pearl Dreams]

Really nice, and yes, I see the colors!

 

[newberry]

Love that ring! Well done!

 

[GemGeek]

Pretty Pearls! Here are the purloined pearls, embraced by a natural white hanadama strand...

 

[Nora]

Blair and Jeremy,
What camera was used to photograph that beautiful pearl on that ring?
Was the picture photoshopped and if so how?