1.13 ct Natural Heated Purplish Pink Sapphire – Oval Cut | GIA Certified | Vietnam

A natural 1.13 carat purplish pink sapphire in an oval mixed cut, heat treated, documented by GIA Sapphire Origin Report #6247017777. The report gives Vietnam as its origin opinion, records the heat treatment, and gives the colour as Purplish Pink. Pink with a violet cast is a colour in its own right among sapphires, and at 7.03 x 5.06 mm it has the face-up size to carry a ring on its own.

Rarity Analysis

What separates this stone from the run of pink sapphire on the market:

• Colour: Purplish pink — pink with a violet cast, cooler and less sugary than the straight pinks and magentas that most "pink sapphire" listings show. The colour name is GIA's, taken from Report #6247017777.
• Weight: 1.13 carats, above the sub-carat material that fills the entry-level market. Read the face-up measurements alongside it: 7.03 x 5.06 mm.
• Treatment: Heat treated — the oldest and by far the most common treatment applied to corundum, recorded openly on the GIA report. No diffusion treatment is recorded.
• Loupe examination: No inclusions visible at 10x magnification. That is our own assessment: GIA coloured-stone reports carry no clarity grade, so we do not attribute it to the laboratory.
• Documentation: A GIA Sapphire Origin Report giving Vietnam as its origin opinion, recording the heat treatment, and stating the colour. GIA gives geographic origin as an expert opinion rather than a finding of fact — we quote it the way GIA writes it.
• Combined effect: A named laboratory colour, an origin opinion, a disclosed treatment and a stone our own examination finds clean at 10x. Each is ordinary on its own; together on one stone under a thousand-something dollars they are less common than any of them sounds.

Buying Guidance

A few practical points to weigh before deciding on this particular stone:

• Look at it under more than one light. Warm indoor light brings the pink forward; daylight lets the violet cast read more clearly. Both are the ordinary response of a purplish pink sapphire to different light temperatures — this is not a colour-change sapphire, and the GIA report records no colour-change phenomenon.
• Read the measurements, not just the carat weight. The stone is 7.03 x 5.06 x 3.82 mm, so its depth is 75.5% of its width. It carries more weight than a 7.03 x 5.06 mm oval usually does, which means it faces up a little smaller than 1.13 ct might suggest, and the depth is where the colour saturation comes from. Tell your setter: the mounting needs room underneath rather than less.
• Ask what the report actually covers. Colour, origin and treatment are three separate entries, and a report may carry one without the others. This one carries all three. It does not grade clarity — no GIA coloured-stone report does.
• Heat is the norm on corundum. The large majority of sapphire on the market has been heated, whatever its origin. An otherwise identical unheated stone commands a premium; that is a different market, not a verdict on this one.
• This is a single stone. As a natural gem it exists once, and this combination of colour, weight, documentation and treatment cannot be reordered.
• Use the Try Before You Buy option if you would like to see the stone in hand before deciding.

Learn More About This Gemstone

• Pink Sapphire Buyer's Guide
• Oval Sapphire Guide
• GIA Guide
• Custom Ring Guide
• Sapphire Buying Guide

Why Choose this 1.13 ct Oval Purplish Pink Sapphire?

An oval sets cleanly and is easy to build a design around, and the elongation flatters a hand — provided the mounting leaves the height this stone's pavilion needs. The cut is a mixed cut: brilliant faceting and step faceting used together rather than one style throughout, which is how most fine ovals in coloured stone are cut. The stone is on the deep side for its outline, and that depth is doing work — it is where the saturation of the colour comes from. Under warm indoor light the pink comes forward; in daylight the violet cast reads more clearly. That is a lighting response, not a colour-change effect.

Purplish Pink and Padparadscha

Padparadscha is a colour name with a narrow definition: a sapphire has to combine pink and orange, in a soft, pastel balance, with neither hue dominating. It is a trade denomination assessed stone by stone by the laboratories, not a mineral species, and laboratories do not all draw the line in the same place.

This stone is outside that range. Its secondary hue is violet, not orange — the opposite side of pink. GIA describes it as Purplish Pink on Report #6247017777, and that is how we describe it too. It belongs to the pink–violet family, which is a colour in its own right rather than a near miss at something else.

One thing worth saying plainly, because it is what buyers of pink and orange-pink sapphire ask about: the GIA report records heat treatment only. It records no diffusion treatment and no beryllium treatment.

Key Benefits of this Natural Sapphire

• Colour, Origin and Treatment All on One Report
  Purplish Pink as the colour description, Vietnam as GIA's origin opinion, and the heat treatment recorded — GIA Report #6247017777.
• A Colour of Its Own
  Pink with a violet cast: cooler and less sugary than the straight pinks that dominate the category.
• Heat Recorded; No Diffusion Treatment Recorded
  The report records heat treatment and records no diffusion or beryllium treatment — the question buyers of pink and orange-pink corundum ask.
• Versatile Design Use
  Suited to a ring, a pendant, or a custom piece built around a single stone.
• Hard-Wearing
  Corundum at Mohs 9 — it resists the scratching that dulls a stone worn every day. Mohs measures scratch resistance, not resistance to a knock.

Features

• SKU: CG8452
• Carat Weight: 1.13 carats
• Gem Type: Natural Purplish Pink Sapphire (corundum)
• Shape: Oval
• Cut Style: Mixed cut
• Dimensions: 7.03 x 5.06 x 3.82 mm
• Colour: Purplish Pink — GIA's colour description on Report #6247017777
• Origin: Vietnam — GIA's origin opinion on Report #6247017777
• Treatment: Heat treated, recorded on GIA Report #6247017777; no diffusion treatment recorded
• Phenomenon: None — not a colour-change sapphire
• Transparency: Transparent
• Loupe examination: no inclusions visible at 10x — our own assessment, not a GIA grade
• Hardness: 9 on the Mohs scale
• Laboratory report: GIA Sapphire Origin Report #6247017777

Care

The heat treatment on this stone is permanent and needs no special handling. The notes below apply to any mounted gemstone.

• Clean with lukewarm water and mild soap using a soft brush, then rinse and dry with a soft cloth
• Store separately — at Mohs 9 this stone will scratch almost anything it is kept with
• Remove the piece before heavy physical work or sport
• Avoid ultrasonic and steam cleaners — vibration and thermal shock can stress fine internal features in any gemstone

What's included with the gemstone

• GIA Sapphire Origin Report #6247017777
• Gemstone packed in a gem sleeve.

This purplish pink sapphire was selected for the clarity of its colour call and the completeness of its report — colour, origin opinion and treatment all recorded by GIA on one document.

What to Look at First

• The colour: pink with a violet cast, named Purplish Pink by GIA rather than by us.
• Three entries on one report: colour, Vietnam as GIA's origin opinion, and the heat treatment.
• The proportions: 7.03 x 5.06 x 3.82 mm, deep for its outline — read the millimetres alongside the carat weight.
• What the report does not say: no clarity grade, no diffusion treatment, no colour-change phenomenon.

This 1.13 ct oval purplish pink sapphire is documented more completely than most stones at its price — colour, origin opinion and treatment, all on one GIA report.