Stones in Pandora products, a brief overview. > read on Braslety.com.ua

Gems

The gem­stones that Pan­do­ra uses in her jew­el­ry are known for their beau­ty, rar­i­ty and dura­bil­i­ty. They are shaped nat­u­ral­ly under the influ­ence of heat and pres­sure, and then with great care and skill are processed by the com­pa­ny’s jew­el­ers to give them a per­fect appear­ance. Stones can be clas­si­fied into dif­fer­ent grades based on col­or and clar­i­ty. Most gem­stones are min­er­als.

Imi­ta­tion pearl

It was cre­at­ed with the direct inter­ven­tion of man, but the way of its cre­ation is exact­ly the same as that of the nat­ur­al one. Nat­ur­al pearls are very rare now, and their price is very high. The mar­ket share of arti­fi­cial pearls in rela­tion to nat­ur­al is 95%. All pearls in Pan­do­ra jew­el­ry are arti­fi­cial. Its val­ue depends on the col­or, size and shape (more round pearls are val­ued more).

arti­fi­cial stones

These stones are cre­at­eds man, not nature. Most of them have their nat­ur­al coun­ter­parts and are so close to them that only an expe­ri­enced jew­el­er’s eye can dis­tin­guish them. Of course, arti­fi­cial stone does not car­ry that halo of romance that we attribute to nat­ur­al stone, but it also has its advan­tages, such as a low­er price and a more uni­form col­or. The most com­mon­ly used stone in the pro­duc­tion of Pan­do­ra jew­el­ry is cubic zir­co­nia or oth­er­wise zir­co­ni­um or cubic zir­co­nia. Its nat­ur­al coun­ter­part is zir­con. The stone was pro­duced as an ana­logue of a dia­mond, it shim­mers beau­ti­ful­ly in the sun and sparkles. Zir­con is pro­duced in var­i­ous col­ors and shades.

Below you can see the abbre­vi­a­tions that are assigned to a par­tic­u­lar stone and their full names.

Gems and pearls:

BK /RC — rock crys­tal

BLA — blue lace agate

Arti­fi­cial stones:

On the Amer­i­can site, you can search for jew­el­ry by stones — enter the abbre­vi­a­tion of the stone you like, and you will see all the jew­el­ry in which it is present. This makes it very easy to find if you need a cer­tain col­or of the stone in the charm. For some rea­son, this search does not work on the Ukrain­ian ver­sion of the site.

The stones in the prod­ucts may dif­fer in shades — some­where brighter, some­where calmer — this is with­in the accept­able range.

After watch­ing this video, you will under­stand why mura­nos are dif­fer­ent from each oth­er. Faceted mura­nos are also cut by hand — each of them con­sists of 7 rows of facets, and there are more than 70 facets in total. There­fore, they can also vary slight­ly in size rel­a­tive to each oth­er.