.26ct Princess cut Rubies. These matching gemstones are genuine Ruby, not man-made, not synthetic. They have been heat treated, as are over 95% of all Rubies, and virtually 100% of all Rubies world-wide that weigh less than 30pts; the heat treatment of the above pair of .26ct Princess cut Rubies has been professionally executed to enhance the colour by removing many of the normally incurring inclusions, and the effect is permanent, so that the clarity and brightness of these two gemstones now is what will be seen many years from now.
Ruby is one of the most costly of gemstones and for any given size there will exist a range in price from one grade to another, and the difference in price between a low grade Ruby of a particular cut and weight, and the same in a high grade, can easily stretch to 300%, and this only for smalls, Rubies weighing .20ct each or less. The bigger the weight involved, the greater the price differential between mediocre and top grades.
Grading in Rubies is not as strictly regimented as in the grading of Diamonds; basically, what counts in grading Rubies is colour, clarity, and intensity. And weight, of course; the bigger the Ruby, the more rare and more costly.
The above earring design created and crafted in Sydney, solidly and made to last, and the gemstones professionally set in Sydney by one of the City’s top gemstone setters. The Ruby gemstones themselves are of east African origin. The Rubies therefore constitute the only component of these earrings not Sydney-worked.