Sapphires

Can anyone recommend anywhere to purchase sapphires in Hong Kong. I am going up in March 2007.

Thanks

Sapphires

only purchase sapphires in asia if you know what you are doing. the best place in the region is myanmar (burma) - they have the best natural stones. you need to be aware that a huge percentage of the stones you will see are either synthetic or heat treated (they take cheap poor qaulity stones and chemically heat treat them to change the colour). if a stone is synthetic or heat treated it greatly reduces the value.

if you are not experienced with sapphires then I would only buy from the big retailers (and even then there is no guarantee of authenticity).

if you want a good deal on natural sapphires I would skip asia and head to the queensland gem fields. they produce some of the best natural sapphires in the world, and there is far less chance of them being fakes as you can buy direct from the individual miners.