2.87 Ct. Blue Sapphire from Thailand

There is a cobalt whisper captured in a perfect cushion, a small night sky held between the tips of your fingers, offered to you by The Natural Sapphire Company. This transparent blue sapphire weighs 2.87 carats, and measures 8.44 by 7.42 by 4.64 millimeters, its mixed brilliant cut designed to draw light into deep wells of color, and then return it as sapphic fire. At eye level its clarity reads very slightly included, which lends the stone a gentle honesty rather than detracting from its beauty, and the polish is excellent, so each facet sings when touched by light. Heat treated to enhance its hue, and originating from Thailand, this gem carries both the quiet confidence of the earth and the skilled hands of those who reveal its voice. Imagine the stone seated in a ring, pendant, or keepsake, a heart of midnight blue that moves with you, catching and releasing light like tide and moon.

Lift this sapphire to the sun and you will notice how it behaves differently from the sharper, crystalline flash of a diamond, and from the airy transparency of aquamarine. Diamonds scatter light into prismatic fire, they glitter like a constellation broken into its smallest stars, and diamonds demand attention with a brightness that leaps from every facet. This sapphire prefers a more intimate display, its dark color intensity tempering the raw flash and instead producing broad, velvety flashes of blue that glow from within. Against other blue gemstones the difference is a study in temperament. Tanzanite can show dramatic pleochroism with a violet blue one moment and a more azure blue the next, but often it reads lighter and more ephemeral than this stone. Spinel may rival sapphire in durability and sometimes reflect light with a similar brilliance, yet spinel tend to present a clearer, more open sparkle, lacking the same pooled richness. Aquamarine and blue topaz transmit light easily and can appear luminous and floating, but they do not achieve this sapphire so called oceanic depth. Even within sapphires this example stands apart because of its mixed brilliant cut and dark intensity, a pairing that prioritizes inner radiance over external dazzle, and that offers a kind of sophisticated glow which invites the eye to linger.

The reflective qualities of this gem are a careful choreography between cut, clarity, and color. The mixed brilliant cut blends the lively scintillation of pavilion facets with the broad, antique charm of a cushion crown, creating flashes that are both lively and profound. Where a shallow cut might pour light back too quickly and a too deep cut might trap it, this proportion allows light to enter, travel, and return in delicious, measured currents. The very slightly included clarity noted at eye level simply means that the stone is honest about its origin, carrying natural inclusions that do not interrupt the gem s dialogue with light, yet give it character and a fingerprint of the earth. The excellent polish ensures that every reflected moment is clean and lucid. In soft indoor light the sapphire envelopes the wearer with a satin glow, while under a midday sun it reveals complex layers of blue that seem to shift as you move, sometimes nearly black at the edges, sometimes a luminous royal blue in the heart. Compared to the high dispersion of diamond which scatters white light into color, this sapphire offers a more monochromatic optical romance, its reflections a steady song rather than a scatter of notes.

To hold this stone is to consider the life it will lead as jewelry, to imagine how its reflective voice will converse with metal and skin. Set in a warm gold, the dark intensity of the blue will sing against the metal s glow, the polish creating fast little flashes at every turn. In platinum or white gold, the sapphire s depth will read cooler and more modern, its reflections edged with the metal s own brightness. The cushion silhouette lends itself to vintage settings and contemporary designs alike, a shape that flatters the finger and allows the mixed brilliant cut to work with generous planes and intricate pavilion facets. Because it has been heat treated, which is a standard and stable enhancement for sapphires, you may wear it daily with confidence in its color stability, though, as with all fine gems, gentle care keeps its polish at its best. Originating from Thailand, this sapphire carries with it a history of gem cutting and trading that has long connected Southeast Asian mines and workshops with collectors around the world, and The Natural Sapphire Company honors that lineage by presenting each stone with transparency and care.

When you choose this cushion blue, you are choosing a stone that speaks in deep notes, that offers reflection rather than demand, that holds stories in its slight inclusions. Let it become the silence in which your promises are made, the blue heart in which memory and meaning rest. The Natural Sapphire Company invites you to consider this 2.87 carat, transparent, cushion shaped sapphire, its dimensions eight point four four by seven point four two by four point six four millimeters, its mixed brilliant cut, its very slightly included clarity, its dark color intensity, and its excellent polish, as a companion for those moments when you wish to give something both beautiful and enduring. Place it into a setting and watch how its reflective qualities compare each day to the light around you, how it will be different in morning and evening, how it will grow familiar to your gaze, and how, in time, it may become that quiet, irreplaceable voice that speaks only to you.