1.09 Ct. Purple Sapphire from Ceylon (Sri Lanka)

I invite you to imagine a single point of light, kept for epochs beneath the skin of the earth, now returned to the world as a jewel of quiet authority, a 1.09 carat round purple sapphire that seems to hold twilight in its heart. This stone measures 6.17 by 6.29 by 3.73 mm, it is transparent, it is cut in a mixed brilliant cut that catches a thousand small suns, and its face shows an intense color that leans toward the delicate poetry of lavender and the deep hush of early evening. When you hold it, you will notice the excellent polish that lets each facet sing, and the clarity grade of very slightly included when evaluated at eye level which serves only to remind you of its natural origin rather than to detract from its perfection. There is no enhancement, the color is as nature intended, and its origin in Ceylon Sri Lanka whispers of emerald hills and old riverbeds. At The Natural Sapphire Company we honor that story, and we present this stone as both a jewel and a legacy.

Picture now the slow drama of the earth, a chronology measured not in weeks or years but in millions of patient heartbeats, where raw elements drift and collide under furnace heat and ponderous weight. Deep below, where pressure becomes sculptor and temperature becomes artist, aluminum atoms found companions and formed the crystalline lattice that would one day become corundum, and trace elements, those playful guests of the mineral world, slipped into the lattice and painted it purple. This sapphire spent an age sealed in the belly of the planet, where time coaxed brilliance into being, and then, through eons of shifting rock and the gentle violence of erosion, it was freed. Rivers braided across the island, washing gems from their hard mother rock into alluvial beds, and here the stone rested, sleeping beneath sand and river silt until human hands of generations past found it. The island that birthed it, Ceylon Sri Lanka, is a place where geology moves like a slow poem, and this gem carries that poem within its color and clarity.

When master cutters took up the rough, they read the internal map of reflection and shadow, and they chose a mixed brilliant cut to bestow a balance of fire and depth. Each facet was conceived to play with light as a dancer plays with rhythm, to scatter radiance outward while keeping the stone mysteriously inviting when viewed face to face. The proportions, the depth and spread indicated by its 6.17 by 6.29 by 3.73 mm measurements, yield a comfortable presence for an intimate setting, and a silhouette that flatters both fine wire and grand halo alike. The polish is excellent, a silky finish that allows the purple to breathe and to change its song as you move it under different light, from the cool clarity of morning to the honeyed glow of candlelight. The stone is transparent, its soul open, and the very slight inclusions revealed only to a practiced gaze at eye level confirm that this is a natural being, not an imitation, not a treated trick of chemistry, but a genuine creation of time and earth.

To choose this sapphire is to choose a story for the hand that wears it, a narrative that begins in molten deep time and arrives now, lucid and ready to be loved. No enhancement has altered its voice, it is honest to the last facet, and its provenance from Ceylon Sri Lanka is part of its romance. At The Natural Sapphire Company we place such stones into settings that honor their past and promise their future, and we will help you imagine how this 1.09 carat round purple sapphire might become the central character in an engagement ring, a sentimental pendant, or a private treasure kept near the skin. Picture it caught in gold or platinum, a tiny twilight that awakens with touch, a companion to vows and quiet mornings. If you seek a gem that speaks in poetry and also in precise, natural truth, this stone waits, its color intense, its polish excellent, its origin known, and its story ready to continue on your finger, at your throat, or in the safe keeping of memory.