Mystery Ring unveiled!

Alright...

It really is time to break the mystery behind what's on my ring:

The central stone is a rough sapphire crystal that has been just polished to show its inner beauty...

And this is further accentuated with two little yellow diamonds on the side..

I think this piece is an interesting mixture of both rough and facetted stones!

White Sapphire: From rough to gem..

I found this very interesting video on Youtube that shows the whole process of mining white sapphire.. all the way to polishing and facetting as a gem!

Extremely educational.. something that is so behind the scenes, I would even say, unglam, of the gem stone industry!

Enjoy!

Sapphire and Ruby Tieclip add-on

Alright, this is the answer to what the mystery object:

A sapphire and ruby tie clip add-on

In this add-on, there is a white sapphire, a blue sapphire, a green sapphire and an untreated Vietnamese ruby!

These members of the conundrum family are assembled together to resemble a popular frog cartoon character, Keroppi.

The image below shows the add-on deattached from the main tieclip body:

... and this one shows the add on on the tie clip...

Wacky ideas...

White Sapphire

I managed to get this white sapphire recently:

White sapphire is an excellent diamond substitute as it is brilliant and second only to diamond itself in hardness.

White or "Colorless" Sapphires have a great deal of brilliance, are attractive, durable and well priced. Gem quality Colorless Sapphires are not common.

This particular piece of mine has quite a good cut and is relatively eye clean.

Another Book from Montblanc

Bought my damaged Montblanc Marlene Dietrich pen, which had its missing sapphire, back to the Montblanc Botique..

The outlet staff handled the matter well and immediately took action by sending the pen and the warranty card to their local office for analysis.

Was also told that the repairs if done locally, would take about 3 weeks. If done back in Montblanc Germany, it could take 3 months or even 4 months...

I am so glad, I do have other pens to use in the mean time..

Anyway, the staff gave me a book about the watch collection from Montblanc:

Interesting pictorial book.. but at this point of time, I shall not think of whether to get a Montblanc watch, lest I end up with dropping/faulty parts again!

Montblanc missing sapphire!

I got a shock of my life when I took out my Montblanc Marlene Dietrich pen from my pocket today!

A missing sapphire, the setting of the blue sapphire on the clip of the pen appears to have been merely pasted on.

For a pen, that I have not been using that frequently, I am rather dismayed by the fact that such high end pens would be of such a quality. Looking at the warranty that came with it, I just bought the pen in October, and it is barely even 2 months and such a thing happened!

I wonder how Montblanc will actually be looking into this matter!

Stay tuned for updates!

Montblanc Marlene Dietrich Ballpoint Pen

Just got this pen today...

It's by Montblanc, part of the Marlene Dietrich collection.

Ballpoint pen with twist mechanism, barrel made of black precious resin inlaid with Montblanc signet and mother-of-pearl inlay, platinum-plated rings and clip set with a deep blue sapphire




Been loving such pens that feature nice natural gem stones. This one is unique, as it features both Mother of Pearl and a sapphire!

Blue Familliar

A very familliar piece... done with blue sapphires instead of black diamond

Blue Sapphire Ring

A simple blue sapphire ring in white gold!

Enough to chase the blues away?

Fancy sapphire, fancy ring!

This yellow sapphire comes set in such a fancy designed ring that it was love at first sight!

Look at the side view of the ring!

Diamond and sapphire pendant

This diamond and sapphire pendant is one of my faves! It's also one of my first too!

I like the contrast between the colours!