The Sapphire Cathedral
CEYLON SAPPHIRE · ROUND · PT 950 · RISEN SHOULDERS
Sapphire the color of late afternoon, harder than any gold. Every piece shown is a real work in the studio today. · 1 WORKS
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CEYLON SAPPHIRE · ROUND · PT 950 · RISEN SHOULDERS
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Before you choose
Long fingers carry tall settings; working hands want a bezel or a low prong. If you wear gloves or type all day, height is the first decision, not the last.
A ring worn daily needs 8 or harder on the Mohs scale: sapphire, spinel, diamond. Softer stones like opal and emerald are occasion stones, or need protective settings.
Fingers run a half size larger by evening and in summer. We size to your afternoon measurement and resize free within two sizes.
A well-cut smaller stone reads larger and livelier than a lazy big one. This is where our money goes, and where yours should.
The short answer
Round yellow sapphire rings at Made With Color: one one of a kind work at $7,400, each built around a stone chosen loose, in daylight, in New York. Sapphire the color of late afternoon, harder than any gold. Every stone ships with a passport naming origin, carat, cut, and any treatment in plain words. Maximum light return, the cut every other cut is measured against.
Sapphire the color of late afternoon, harder than any gold. We choose every stone loose, in daylight, and every work above carries a passport that says exactly what it is.
In colored stones, round costs the most rough and shows the most brilliance. Buy it when sparkle leads.
Yellow sapphire is 9 / 10 on the Mohs scale. Hard enough for daily wear in any setting, including rings.
Measure a ring you already own at the end of the day, when fingers run largest.
Decide setting height first. Hands that type, garden, or lift want the stone low.
Best at brilliance, not at color depth. Saturated stones sometimes read richer in cushion or oval, which hold color longer in the eye.
Yellow sapphire is 9 / 10 on the Mohs scale. A ring takes more knocks than any other jewel. Below 8 on the Mohs scale, choose a bezel or a low setting.
Yellow sapphire is the Sep birthstone and the traditional stone of the 5th anniversary. We set it for both, and for no occasion at all.
Untreated unless the passport says otherwise. When a stone of ours is heated or grown in a lab, the passport says so in that word, in the same type size as everything else, and the price reflects it.
Today, one work at $7,400. Each is one of a kind, so the page moves as stones sell and new ones are set.
Ready-now works leave the studio within two business days, insured and signed for. Made to order pieces state their bench time on the page, most within three to four weeks.
Kept for life
◆Cleaning and polishing◆Prongs tightened and retipped◆White gold re-plated◆Resizing◆Resetting into something newEvery page below is real: filtered from the works in the studio today, or an open invitation to commission the piece that is missing.
Client notes, unedited
“They talked me out of a bigger stone and into a better one. Who does that?”M. CHEN, SEATTLE · COMMISSION No. 114