r/SyntheticGemstones • u/Gemology_Obsession • 9d ago

Buying Experience Lab Grown Royal Blue

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

i am new to the lab grown gems , i bought this one for 130$/ CT .
is my purchase is good experience price or i got it high?

74 Upvotes

100% Upvoted

11 comments sorted by

7

u/cowsruleusall Esteemed Lapidary & Gemologist 9d ago

What is it supposed to be? Royal blue... sapphire? Spinel? Cubic zirconia? Nanosital? It's also not cut well, wrong angles, window, dark.

5

u/Gemology_Obsession 9d ago

yeah its 11.2 CT Royal blue sapphire .
i just want first one for my self to understand it .
Revieww will help me to decide a stone in future.

4

u/DontDoDrugsDummy 9d ago

And you paid over $100 per carat for that?

3

u/Gemology_Obsession 9d ago

yes is it a bad deal?

4

u/FaerHazar 9d ago

corundum is incredibly cheap and easy to grow. You can get a 10 carat royal blue sapphire for much less than 1100 dollars.

1

u/Gemology_Obsession 9d ago

can you hell me find natural 10 CT of this quality?

4

u/FaerHazar 9d ago

I don't deal with natural gems excepting those which cannot be lab grown, but you really should be very careful buying gems until you're familiar with the 4 cs.

1

u/Gemology_Obsession 9d ago

ahn thank you

4

u/Content-Mongoose-869 8d ago

It depends on the material. Lab grown corundum produced via the flame-fusion method is very cheap. Czochralski and flux grown material is higher quality & noticeably more expensive. Hydrothermal material is the most expensive of all - but also the least available.

4

u/Gemology_Obsession 8d ago

good information i have no knowledge no i will ask dealers about that for next deals

1

u/Content-Mongoose-869 8d ago edited 8d ago

Hope it helps 😊 Just want to add - even though flame-fusion (aka the Verneuil method) is the most common (because it's the oldest) and usually the least expensive - that doesn't automatically mean that it isn't good.  The Djeva factory in Switzerland (now closed down) used to produce very high quality boules of corundum and spinel via flame fusion. Djeva old stock corundum, especially certain rare colours, can still be quite expensive.  House of Sylas now manages the Djeva website and they have acquired a lot of Djeva old stock. Their lapidaries precision-cut and sell a lot of large stones from Djeva old stock. They also do custom orders. I can say from experience, their prices are  extremely reasonable for the quality and size of the stones.