Rubies shinning just as brightly as diamonds and emeralds

Global diamond market is worth more than $80 billion and buyers are seeking colored gemstones, where the value is predicted to reach $292 billion. The new generation buyers are highly fascinated to rubies, emeralds and sapphires, and the high fashion industry is using these stones for designing sets and costumes. Colored gemstones and diamond markets are flooding with lab grown stones but the natural ones – emeralds, sapphires and rubies, constitute the top lots of high value jewelry auctions, where rubies can sell for more value as compared to diamonds per carat.

Millennials are buying more colored stones in comparison to diamonds, and at auctions colored gems get unexpected growth in price. E.g. Colombian 18.04 carat emerald got $5.5 million at a Christie auction.

Jewelries or watches where to invest?

Expensive luxuries have potential to provide huge gains in future. The exotic class of precious stones - rubies and emeralds can offer valuable returns if the stones are unusual. One should know that investment in poor quality diamonds or gold may not provide the expected returns. The value of jewelry increases with the brand, age, time, demand, quality, historical significance and designs.  

People invest in watches, cars and art, but even similar items may not provide the same returns. Instead, some items depreciate after purchase, hence, one need to navigate through a series of various different types of options to get the original and the right product.

The concept of collectibles and jewelry investment can be tricky where the ones with celebrated designs or endorsed by celebrities get, substantially, higher values as compared to others – of the same price.

Rubies gaining

One of the largest suppliers of rubies is Mozambique - the Fura miners’ that offers rare ruby treatment facilities to process such stones into high value gemstones. Rubies gained in the last decade significantly and rough rubies auction in June 2018 by Gemfield, generated more than $71.8 million at an average rate of $122 a carat.  The rate of Mozambique MRM gemstones demonstrated record breaking growth in such stones.

These are rarer stones as compared to diamonds, and some of the exceptional stones get significantly higher values at the international markets.  The director at Christie London David Warren suggest the Burmese pigeon and top quality Mozambique stones are   still one of the highest paid stones on the earth due to appealing cherry  mystery set color versions.  

High quality classic pieces offers the best returns where the simple gold chains, flash designs, gemstones- emeralds, rubies , sapphires  and others with classic settings are preferred.  

Buyers should carefully examine stones or pearls, and choose from the colors or designs which are gaining or are expected to gain in future.

Most such investments are made for luxury, or as a hobby, where one should not fall for unscrupulous investments.

A proper in-depth research should be conducted to examine the pros and cons of buying such items and mitigating risks.  

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