3.60 Ct. Blue Sapphire from Ceylon (Sri Lanka)

From the first whisper of dawn over the hills of Ceylon Sri Lanka this sapphire began its journey, a fragment of ancient earth that dreamed of light. Miners moved with patient hands along riverbeds and in the cool hush of tunnels, sifting stories from stone, until at last a rough crystal revealed its promise. That rough was carried by craftsmen who understand the language of facets and fire, who listened to the seed of color inside and coaxed it into being, and The Natural Sapphire Company watched over each step as a quiet guardian, ensuring that the gem that would cross oceans and cultures kept the memory of its birthplace alive. Imagine the monsoon sky reflected in each grain of the original crystal, imagine the slow turning of the earth over centuries compressing color into depth, and imagine the human touch that freed that deep blue to become visible, a relic of time transformed into a companion for the moments that matter.

Polishing and cutting were an act of translation, the story turned into a structure of light, and in the hands of a master the sapphire took on a cushion shape, a gentle pillow of blue that sits like a piece of midnight captured and softened by dawn. The weight is 3.60 carat, the dimensions are 9.95 x 7.14 x 5.46 mm, the cut is a mixed brilliant cut that blends the sparkle of modern precision with the warmth of traditional form. It is transparent, and when examined at eye level it reads very slightly included, a subtle honesty that speaks of natural origin rather than laboratory perfection. The color intensity is vivid, each facet conveying a depth like the ocean at first light, like the hush of a blue evening when the sky remembers the sea. The polish is excellent, surfaces so smooth that light slips across them and is returned transformed, and the enhancement is heat treated, a gentle stewardship that deepens tone and clarity without erasing the soul of the stone.

When this sapphire arrived at The Natural Sapphire Company it was wrapped in the kind of reverence reserved for things that carry memory and promise, and then it waited for the right setting, for a moment in which it could complete its journey into a life. Envision it as the heart of an engagement ring, a single light held between palms, or as a pendant that rests near the throat like a small private horizon. Picture the way the mixed brilliant facets catch ambient glow in a candle lit room, scattering flecks of azure and deep sea, the cushion outline flattering the contours of a hand, the 3.60 carat presence that feels generous yet intimate. Our gemologists and jewelers speak of balance and proportion, of bezel and claw, of the way a setting can both cradle and reveal, and we invite you to imagine a design that honors the sapphire, that allows the vivid color intensity to sing, and that keeps visible the slight inclusions that confirm it is a piece of the earth rather than a mirror of the sky.

Choosing this sapphire is accepting a story that began beneath tropical rains and ended at a quiet counter where hands met and decisions were made. It is a stone whose origin in Ceylon Sri Lanka is stitched into its color, whose heat treated enhancement is an act of respectful tending, whose mixed brilliant cut and excellent polish are a promise of light and movement. At The Natural Sapphire Company we do not simply sell gems, we steward them from mine to market, we honor their past while helping them become part of new narratives, and we offer guidance for settings that will let a sapphire of 9.95 x 7.14 x 5.46 mm and 3.60 carat become an heirloom, a seal on an intention, a quiet witness to vows and promises. Hold it and you hold a glacier and a monsoon, a craftsman and a dream, a piece of Ceylon wrapped in a lifetime of small, deliberate, luminous care.