GRADING REPORT PADz132
- Identification: Natural Unheated & Untreated Zircon
- Carat: 1.32
- Shape: Oval Brilliant
- Measures: 7.03x5.67x3.84mm
- Color Grade: Excellent
- Tone: Light Medium 40
- Color Zoning: None
- Clarity: Free of Inclusions
- Cutting Grade: Excellent (precision cut)
o Brilliancy: 95%
o Depth: 68%
- Origin: Sri Lanka
- Treatment: None
Certificate No: IGI 365922469
Overall Grade: Excellent+
Comment: To my memory this is the first zircon graded as 'orange pink', the official padparadscha color. I'm not going to call it a padparadscha zircon (though tempting since we already have pad spinels and pad tourmalines). Our premier orange-pink zircon presents a solid face-up of 7x6mm but no window, nor inclusions or treatments. Precision-cut in Germany. Orange and pink aside, one may also detect a dash of yellow in the gem. An intense sparkler like all high zircons. See the rainbow-colored dispersion in the image below. Such is typically associated with diamonds only, but a few other gems, like sphene, sphalerite and some rarities perform the same miracle. Of those, however, it is only zircon that has the necessary hardness to be used in unprotected jewelry. Sphene and sphalerite are soft gems though they can be set by an experienced goldsmith-team into protective settings and then worn with care. Zircon needs no special care, only what we bestow on any material that we love and honor. IMO, its color would combine best with yellow gold, even 22k, or rose-gold. A mild but lively character, unique, not only in zircon.
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