Bluish White South Sea Pearls

Cultured white south sea pearls and golden south sea pearls are the largest gemstones on the cultured market making them both rare and very valuable.

Bluish white south sea pearls.

And natural pearl colors found nowhere else on earth. Silver blue white south sea pearls range from 9 mm to 16 mm in size sometimes larger pearl colors. Currently the most expensive pearls that are commonly found on the market are the south sea variety which occurs primarily in white and gold colors. Almost universally described by pearlers as satiny in look the south sea pearl s luster is softer in appearance than that of the japanese akoya.

South sea pearls are considered the most valuable. While white pearls are generally less expensive than colored varieties a natural white pearl would be more expensive than cultured colored pearls. White and golden south sea pearls are known to have the thickest nacre layers of all cultured saltwater pearl types averaging between 2 0 4 0mm thick or more. Because of the rarity and sensitivity of this type of oyster cultivation of these pearls is much more difficult making.

They are also the largest pearl variety on the market. Silver blue white south sea pearls are a rare fancy color mostly known to pearl specialists and collectors. Pearls can range from gray to gray blue to silver blue. This oyster is much larger than the oysters that produce akoya and freshwater pearls so the pearl that it produces is much larger as well.

And when they do chocolate pearl jewelry owners find themselves with rare gems with. With white south sea pearls feature predominately bright silver overtones with some warmer creamy colors and the most rare overtone is rose. Although it is possible to get pearls smaller than 10mm and larger than 16mm in the south sea they are scarce. Chocolate color pearls are rich with shimmering hues and gleams of gold.

Pearl necklace 18 14k white gold white cultured south sea graduated pearl strand 10 13mm 17 500 00 sale 9 625 00. A strand of south sea pearls can range from 1 000 to over 100 000. South sea pearls come from the white lipped variety of the pinctada maxima oyster. Please see the chart below to view the size range of white south sea pearls from australia and black south sea pearls from tahiti.

A pearl is a hard glistening object produced within the soft tissue specifically the mantle of a living shelled mollusk or another animal such as fossil conulariids just like the shell of a mollusk a pearl is composed of calcium carbonate mainly aragonite or a mixture of aragonite and calcite in minute crystalline form which has deposited in concentric layers. For silver blue south sea pearls the main body color will generally be a gray tone and the overtone is an iridescent blue color.