Preview build. The four stones shown are samples for layout: their certificates, prices and report numbers are placeholders, not offers. Nothing here is for sale yet.
Disclosure & certification
Most sapphires are heated. Some are not. The difference is real, it is priced, and it is not a difference in honesty — but hiding it would be.
The standing policy
Treatment appears as the first row of every specification table, in the laboratory’s exact words, with the report number. It appears again on the invoice. It is never our own adjective.
We refuse diffused, glass-filled and clarity-enhanced material outright. We do not use invented grades: there is no “AAA” here, and no “investment grade”.
The laboratories
| Laboratory | Standing | How we use it |
|---|---|---|
| SSEF / Gübelin | Auction-grade final word, especially on origin. | Aspirational; not required at launch. |
| GRS | Asian trade standard; named colour calls carry price premiums. | Primary for important stones. |
| Lotus Gemology | The connoisseur’s lab for ruby and sapphire; unusually detailed reports. | Padparadscha and connoisseur stones. |
| GIA | Strongest global consumer recognition; now operating in Sri Lanka. | Consumer-facing important stones. |
| CSL (Ratnapura) / GIC | Honest local pre-screening; little international weight alone. | First screening — always framed as such. |
Five-figure stones are not published on a local report alone. Where a stone carries a CSL screening only, the page says so, and international certification at the laboratory of your choice is arranged before payment.