Masterpiece Australian Black Opal Ring
Introducing this captivating 6.89ct Masterpiece Australian Black Opal Ring, featuring a gemstone that displays an extraordinary play of colour across its dark body tone. As light moves across the surface, vivid flashes of red, orange, green, and blue appear in motion, creating a kaleidoscopic brilliance unique to Lightning Ridge. A rare optical phenomenon found only in the world’s finest opals, it stands as a truly phenomenal gem.
Phenomenal Gemstones
The Art of Colour
Black Opal is renowned for its mesmerising play of colour, created as light interacts with the silica spheres within the stone. Each flash of red, orange, green, and blue appears to shift and dance across its surface, giving the gem an energy that feels almost alive. Formed millions of years ago beneath the Australian outback, this phenomenon, known as opalescence, defines the rarity and allure of Lightning Ridge’s most treasured gemstones.
Lightening Ridge
Born Beneath the Australian Outback
Australian Black Opals trace their origins to Lightning Ridge, a remote region of New South Wales famed for producing the world’s most vivid examples of this rare gemstone. Around sixty million years ago, mineral rich water filled the cracks and voids of ancient rock, leaving behind deposits of silica that solidified into opal. The region’s dark ironstone earth gives each gem its dramatic contrast and depth of colour, making Lightning Ridge synonymous with the finest black opals ever discovered.
Craftsmanship
Designed by Nature, Perfected by Hand
Born from the philosophy of the Skimming Stone collection, this Masterpiece reimagines the beauty of nature’s simplicity. The collection takes inspiration from pebbles smoothed by water over time, their soft, rounded forms reflected in the ring’s sculptural curves and balanced proportions. At its centre, the Australian Black Opal displays a kaleidoscopic play of colour, held by refined talon claws that allow light to reveal its shifting brilliance. Around it, a precise arrangement of carré cut sapphires, Paraiba tourmalines, rubies, and tsavorites mirrors the opal’s spectrum of hues, creating perfect harmony between gemstone and design. Handcrafted in England, it exemplifies the artistry and care that define every Pragnell Masterpiece.
In Detail
A Study in Colour and Craft
Born from the philosophy of the Skimming Stone collection, this Masterpiece reimagines the beauty of nature’s simplicity. The collection takes inspiration from pebbles smoothed by water over time, their soft, rounded forms reflected in the ring’s sculptural curves and balanced proportions. At its centre, the Australian Black Opal displays a kaleidoscopic play of colour, held by refined talon claws that allow light to reveal its shifting brilliance. Around it, a precise arrangement of carré cut sapphires, Paraiba tourmalines, rubies, and tsavorites mirrors the opal’s spectrum of hues, creating perfect harmony between gemstone and design. Handcrafted in England, it exemplifies the artistry and care that define every Pragnell Masterpiece.
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