Yellow sapphires are bright, crisp and glow like the summer sun. they’re not just pretty but also have historic value. Their popularity as an engagement ring stone has been growing steadily over the last few years and is forecasted to only increase in the coming years.
Like many other gemstones jewellery, yellow sapphire is also associated with a range of historical meanings. It’s said to bring success and good luck to the wearer. In Vedic Astrology in India, yellow sapphires are used for good luck and good energy. Since time immemorial, people in India and the Middle East have been wearing the yellow sapphire to bring their businesses immense success. Known as Pukhraj, Pushkaraj and Pushparagam in Hindi, this gemstone online represents power, knowledge, wisdom, good fortune and wealth.
Yellow sapphires come from the corundum mineral and develop their unique colour from the presence of iron during the formation. Over millions of years, the traces of iron colour the corundum and give it a warm, yellow colour. All yellow sapphires have a hardness rating of 9 out of 10 on the Mohs scale, putting them just one point behind a diamond. Due to their hardness, sapphires are very difficult to scratch or damage and make for an excellent buying option.
While buying gemstone online, it’s important to look for “perfection”. The real yellow sapphire is completely clear, which is still rare. Here are a few other things to consider before buying gemstone online:
The most important factors to consider in a yellow sapphire are its colour, hue, tone and clarity.
1. Colour
When it comes to gemstone online, it’s all about the colour. The colour is usually the factor that has the largest impact on its beauty and justifies the price at which it’s purchased. Yellow sapphires come in a variety of colours, ranging from pale yellow and leading up to orange and even slightly bronze shades. It’s important to consider the colour of a loose yellow sapphire gemstone before getting it fixed into a ring or a piece of jewelry. The majority of yellow sapphires are heat-treated to induce better colour and clarity. This possess is used for sapphires of other fancy colours as well. It’s important to note, however, that sapphires not heat-treated are rare and sell at a premium price. This indicates that they’re naturally yellow.
2. Hue
Hue is a sapphire’s colour in comparison with neighbouring colours on the colour wheel. The two colours surrounding yellow-orange and green can be identified in the right yellow sapphire.
3. Tone & Saturation
The word ‘tone’ means how light or dark the colour of a sapphire is. Yellow sapphires with a light tone are bright and eye-catching, whereas darker sapphires can have an orangey-yellow colour, making them less transparent.
Saturation, on the other hand, refers to the intensity, vibrancy and vividity of a sapphire. Sapphires that are vivid and have a medium tone colour are the most attractive and desirable. Unlike diamonds, sapphires are not graded by a standardized grading system and that’s why it’s important to look at a sapphire’s real colour rather than rely on colour grades.
4. Clarity
Sapphires of all colours feature inclusions, otherwise, it’s unusual. In general, a sapphire with flawless clarity is looked at with suspicion while buying gemstone online. However, yellow sapphires usually have fewer inclusions than blue, green, pink and other coloured sapphires. It’s important to pay attention to their clarity grade by making sure it’s “eye-clean”. This means it’s free of inclusions when viewed with a naked eye. Go for the yellow sapphire that’s clean and free of inclusions.
5. Cut
The cut of sapphire is a great factor in determining its beauty. A sapphire with a clean, deep cut maximizes its colour, clarity, light returns and other factors. The most common cuts for these sapphires are oval, round, cushion and emerald. Other cuts like princess, heart and pear are also used on occasions on special demand.
6. Carat weight
Yellow sapphires are slightly denser than yellow diamonds. This means that a 3-carat sapphire will be smaller than a diamond with the same carat weight. This is what determines their price.
Yellow sapphires come in a wide range of yellows from light to dark, offering different levels of vibrancy. From natural pastel light yellow and lemon yellow to a deep orangey-yellow or golden yellow, they all look magnificent. But most people opt for the medium vibrant canary while buying gemstone online.
The best way to tell if your sapphire is real is by looking for scratches and tiny bubbles. Since sapphires are durable, there shouldn’t be any scratches on the surface or tiny bubbles inside it. The scratches and the bubbles mean that the gemstone is made from glass, and is fake. Look at the sapphire closely before buying gemstone online.
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