We are excited to announce that we have a new selection of beautiful opals at our London Pearl Showroom!
Opals are the stone of inspiration and are meant to inspire the imagination and creativity – and it is easy to see why with their mesmerizing colours. Opal is the birthstone for October and in the Middle ages was believed to bring the wearer good luck.
With their beautiful rainbow colours opals are the perfect complimentary companion to your pearls. Opals pick up on the natural luster of a pearl through their impressive play of colour. Opals come in a range of colours from white to black! Other common body colours include red and orange “Fire” opals as well as blue and green. Black opals are the rarest with the black body colour allowing the best play of colour to be seen.
Our opals are Australian boulder opals which mean that they are not fully separated from their rock matrix.
We mainly have black opals with predominantly blue and green play of colour which set off our pearls – especially our tahitian pearls perfectly.
We also have some truly amazing black opals showing the full colour spectrum from violet through to red.
Opal is a form of silica and the play of colour that you see is due to its internal structure. Opal is actually made up of hundreds of tiny silica spheres in a tightly packed lattice, and the regularity of the size and shape of these spheres determine the opals quality and how much play of colour you can see through the diffraction of light passing through. Smaller gaps between the spheres produce the blue and violet colours and larger gaps give red’s and oranges. The greater the uniformity of the spheres, the more intense and brilliant the colours produced will be.
If you want to pop in and take a look at our opals and pearls we are open Monday – Saturday, 11am-7pm at our store in Beauchamp Place. We can make a bespoke design to meet your individual needs if you can’t find what you are after in store.
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