TWILIGHT TOUCH
The rarest colours do not announce themselves. They reveal themselves slowly.
Twilight Touch is built around a 3.58 carat pear cut spinel from Sri Lanka, grayish violet in colour and cut to draw every trace of light through its depth. Set in 950 platinum with three sharp prongs and encircled by 35 VS1 brilliant cut diamonds totalling 0.21 carats, the pendant moves the way good jewelry should. Effortlessly.
This pendant is part of a sibling set, paired with a second 3.60 carat spinel pendant from the same collection. Each piece stands entirely on its own. Together they are something else entirely.
No heat. No treatment. What you see is exactly what was found.
Twilight Touch comes with a LOTUS Gemology certificate and is presented in an original Orloff of Denmark jewelry box.
ONE OF A KIND.
ORLOFF OF DENMARK.
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About Spinel
Spinel is one of the most underappreciated gemstones in the world, and among collectors, that is precisely what makes it so desirable.
For centuries, the finest red spinels were mistaken for rubies. The Black Prince's Ruby, one of the most famous gemstones in the British Crown Jewels, is in fact a spinel. It was only in the late 18th century that science caught up with what the stone actually was.
Spinel forms in a wide range of colours, from intense reds and vivid pinks to deep blues, grays and violets. It occurs naturally without the heat treatment that is standard practice for sapphires and rubies, meaning a no-heat spinel is genuinely rare and genuinely natural. What you see in the stone is what the earth made.
The finest specimens come from Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Tanzania and Vietnam. Mahenge spinels from Tanzania are particularly prized for their intense neon pink, while Ceylon spinels from Sri Lanka are known for their soft, complex violets and blues.
For those who know gemstones, spinel needs no introduction. For those who are discovering it for the first time, consider the ones we offer.