How to estimate the price of a sapphire?

With the aim of correctly estimating the price of a sapphire at the time of an appraisal or repurchase, we will briefly explain some of the criteria used to define a price.

Firstly, a gemmological certificates from recognized laboratories of your sapphire will be an asset for its redemption.
What's more, the color of a sapphire varies according to its mine of origin.

For example, sapphires from Burma and Kashmir are often the most sought-after and therefore also the most expensive.

Is a rough sapphire worth more than a jewel-mounted sapphire?

If your sapphire is natural and untreated, it will be more valuable.
In effect, this means that a rough sapphire will be more valuable than one mounted on a ring, for example.
With the exception of designer jewelry, in which case your jewel may even benefit from a premium over the raw price of the sapphire.

The value of a signed jewel ( Cartier, Van Cleef, Boucheron etc.) varies according to its rarity, condition, period and market demand.
High jewelry can therefore have a clear influence on the price of a sapphire.

How can you tell a sapphire from a ruby?

Sapphire and ruby are corundum one is blue and the other is red.
The most sought-after sapphires are cashmerethe Burmese and the ceylan.

Its color must be a deep blue, uniform, limpid and untreated. There are sapphires in all colors: padparadsha (orange-pink), candy-pink, white-pink and white-pink. yellow canary, bluish green, intense violet.

Selling a sapphire

We buy sapphires above 3 cts, preferably with a gemmological certificate.

We buy back sapphires inheritance, for example.
Rightly so, we respect the privacy of those wishing to sell a sapphire.
We expertise in sapphires from 3 carats. You can request a sapphire for sale on our website.
Read our article on how we calculate the weight of a piece of jewelry.