1.62 Ct. Padparadscha Sapphire from Madagascar

This padparadscha has a story that begins deep beneath the earth in Madagascar, where rare corundum crystals slowly formed over millions of years under the right balance of trace elements, pressure, and time. From that patient beginning this transparent 1.62 carat cushion shape padparadscha sapphire emerged, measuring 7.43 by 6.59 by 3.39 millimeters. Its cutter respected that natural story and chose a mixed brilliant cut to honor both the gem’s color and its potential for light performance. The result is a stone that reads as intensely colored and eye clean at normal viewing distance, with an excellent polish that allows each facet to return light with warm, lively flashes. Importantly this gem is untreated, no enhancement, so the coral to salmon tones you see are wholly natural, a direct conversation between the rough from Madagascar and the skilled hands that shaped it.

When you compare its brilliance to more common gemstones the difference is subtle and compelling. Diamonds are known for their extreme fire and scintillation, and they disperse light differently, but they cannot reproduce the living sunset that a padparadscha offers. Standard blue sapphires deliver deep, velvety color and strong luster, yet a padparadscha’s orange pink spectrum creates a soft, velour glow that plays across the mixed brilliant facets in a way that feels more like warm light than pure sparkle. Compared to topaz or garnet, this sapphire combines better transparency with higher color saturation and far greater rarity, especially as an eye clean, unenhanced example. The mixed brilliant cut here maximizes light return without sacrificing the gem’s weight or color depth, so you get flashes of brilliance and broad, luminous color fields in equal measure. At The Natural Sapphire Company we appreciate how such a gem stands apart in both rarity and aesthetic presence, and we are happy to advise on settings that will showcase this padparadscha’s unique interplay of color and light, whether you prefer a minimalist solitaire or a more elaborate halo that contrasts and amplifies its warm radiance.