Precious Gems
We are happy to consult and source whatever gemstone is required and arrange for the client to compare several options in a viewing to ensure the best gem is selected. Our experience with diamonds (GIA certified or independently graded) can help you to make the best choice to suit your budget and ensure it has the scintillation and beauty they are renowned for. All shape and sizes and grades are available for your consideration.
Diamond
Diamond - the gem that captures, reflects and releases light with a scintillating brilliance and blaze of colour beyond all other gemstones. The perfect combination of beauty and strength unsurpassed for its hardness and renowned as "a girl’s best friend". Available in a range of shapes and colours to create beautiful jewellery for both men and woman in timeless and contemporary designs.
Hardness: 10
Anniversary: 5th, 10th, 15th, 20th, 30th, 60th
Birthstone: April
Zodiac: Aries, Taurus
Ruby
Ruby - excellent hardness combined with rich colour and silky shine makes fine rubies so valuable.
Hardness: 9
Anniversary: 40th
Birthstone: July
Zodiac: Cancer, Leo
Sapphire
Sapphire - from the same corundum family as the Ruby. Sapphires durable hardness that makes them perfect for jewellery. Available in a wide range of colours from green to purple and yellow with the rich, velvety and intense blue the most highly regarded.
Hardnesss: 9
Anniversary: 6th, 45th
Birthstone: September
Zodiac: Virgo, Libra
Emerald
Emerald – has long been held in high esteem for their wonderful green colour like no other, require a little more care as do most precious things.
Hardness: 7.5
Anniversary: 17th, 55th
Birthstone: May
Zodiac: Gemini, Taurus
Pearl
Pearl - the gemstone gift from the sea whose combined qualities of colour, lustre, size and shape make pearls a lasting treasure to be enjoyed by that someone special. Available South Sea white and Black, Keshi and Akoya quality cultured pearls perfect for earrings, pendants and strands.
Hardness: 2.5 - 3.5
Anniversary: 35th (Modern)
Birthstone: June
Zodiac: Cancer, Gemini
Opal
Opal - natures own fireworks captured in a gemstone and once described as "for in them you shall see the living fire of the Ruby, the glorious purple of the Amethyst, the sea green of the Emerald all glittering together in an incredible mixture of light". Beautiful solid opals with their depth of flashing colours, stunning Boulder opal with its sparkling brilliant colour contrasting on darker ironstone.
Hardness: 5.5
Anniversary: 14th
Birthstone:October
Zodiac: Libra, Scorpio
Coloured Gems
Coloured Gems - we have a great range of quality coloured stones that are fabulous alternatives to consider Spessarite and Tsavorite Garnets, Aquamarine, Amethyst, Citrine, Burmese Spinel, Topaz, Tourmalines, Kunzite,Tanzanite, as well as ornamentals. Come in and have a look to find your new favourite gemstone.