Santa Maria Aquamarine--

https://youtube.com/shorts/XWXIjtBhszU?feature=share

Red Spinel--

https://youtube.com/shorts/bRKXMn_uha8?feature=share

Other--

Question:
Would you choose the --

Santa Maria Aquamarine --

Red Spinel --

Other --

Kenny said always put an ""Other" and I'm taking his advice.

My favorite gems are Santa Maria aquamarines, red spinels, citrines (a cousin of aquamarines), chrysoprase, tourmalines, and diamond (high clarity and low color).

It would be a hard choice if I had to choose one of these two-- but I would have to choose the aquamarine because it's my favorite gems.

Choices:
Santa Maria Aquamarine
Red Spinel
Other

 

I feel it inadequate to choose simply the stone without also considering the setting, the skin tone, and perhaps also the rest of the attire ensemble and the expected lighting color theme of the venue.

Anymore contextual information you can share with this poll?

Well, yes.

Please let me amend my question--

Which of these two jewels would you choose-- or any others that you could imagine?

I hope that this helps, Ax.

Feel free to send me either, Daniel. Though my personal preference is the acquamarine.

I'm also very partial to fire opals, since you asked. Feel free to send me any of those as well.

I have a lovely aqua marine stone in a box...My ex bought it for me when he/we were into jewelry.

Now, it is not so much part of my life. I will probably sell it.

https://www.cellinijewelers.co...xican-fire-opal-ring

Oscar Heyman fire opal ring.

I hope it doesn't get lost in the mail, Nina!

As an object, I prefer the spinel and its beautiful diamonds, so I voted for it.

As a piece of jewelry that I might wear, the spinel's setting is a bit flashy for me. (And I do like flash, so that's saying something.) Since I don't attend high-end galas or premieres, I'd put it in a different setting if it were mine.

If you see top quality ruby, blue sapphire, jadeite, then very little if anything will compare.
Diamonds complement the colours.
I'm also quite fond of mother of pearl.

I find aquamarines usually very pale, preferring tanzanite.

But this is jewellery, personal to you or whoever you're buying for. I'd never buy Rolex, my taste being IWC or Blancpain styles

I sold my 34mm Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Ultra Thin with solid back. It's one of the few regrets I have in life.

I had an IWC Cal. 89 but I disassembled it. Lol.

I couldn't wear either of these rings and couldn't wear the Oscar Heyman fire opal ring.

I adhere to the modern conventions of what men and women 'can' do regarding clothes and jewels.

I wouldn't be comfortable breaking these conventions.

But that's just me.

If anyone does want to break them-- more power to them.

The red one, definitely.

Probably the aquamarine. Sentimental attachment.

My grandmother gave me hers when I turned 16. This ring made it from Lithuania to the United States, passing through World War II on the way.







This is my grandmother's other ring that made it from the old country. My mom had it until a few years before she passed away, when she gave it to me.

The family story is that it is alexandrite, quite a rare stone. Alexandrite has been mined in Russia for centuries, so it always seemed like a plausible story.

I had a garden variety jeweler look at it and it refracts like an alexandrite, but it could be synthetic. Even back in the early 20th century when my grandfather bought it for my grandmother they were doing synthetics.

I've been told by knowledgeable amateur gemologists that the color just isn't quite right for a natural alexandrite, and that the light area in the center diminishes its appeal. But everyone loves the overall cut and setting.





And an aquamarine my Mom got as a gift from a friend. It's half faceted, half cabochon, facets on the back. Mom wore it as an everyday ring and it has a ding or two on the top. It's a large stone and an odd setting.





Have to admit, I don't wear any of them; I would have to have them resized to fit my old pudgy fingers. And the alexandrite setting is damaged from my Mom putting it on and taking it off when it got too small for her. I really should have that ring evaluated by a gemologist to see what it really is. And have it resized and repaired.

The aquamarine ring from the old country is beautiful!

All three of those are very cool and very beautiful, wtg!

Those rings are beautiful, wtg!