Sapphire
Color is the most important feature on a sapphire’s value. The most valued blue sapphires are blue to violetish blue, in medium to medium-dark tones. The best sapphires have strong to vivid color saturation.
Cornflower Blue
The most valuable blue sapphires are called cornflower blue, having a medium-dark violet-blue tone
Royal Blue
Royal blue is both a bright shade and a dark shade of azure blue
Navy Blue
Navy blue is a very dark shade of the color blue
Violet Blue
The most valuable blue sapphires are called cornflower blue, having a medium-dark violet-blue tone
Blue sapphires are classified by GIA as Type II this means that they typically have inclusions, Blue sapphires with extremely high clarity are rare, and valuable.
Very Included
Too many inclusions that the sapphire is unpleasant to see
Included
Inclusions are visible to the naked eye, inclusions are no so much distracting
Very Slightly included
Inclusions are visible to the unaided eye but they do not distract from the beauty of the Sapphire
Eye Clean
Inclusions are not seen by the unaided eye
This is how we know that your sapphire is Natural
Growth Zones
Straight colour zoning
Healed Fracture
Partly healed inclusions
Crystal
Graphite inclusion with halo in sapphire
Stress crack
Crystal inclusion with stress crack also known as Poached egg
