7 Ways To Tell If A Sapphire Is Real (Jewelers Hope You Never Learn #1)

The sapphire in your grandmother's ring is real. Real corundum. Real aluminum oxide. Nine on the hardness scale, the same as the sapphires in a royal crown. It will scratch glass. It will pass every test you'll find on the internet for telling a real sapphire from a fake one. And it may be worth about twenty dollars. 💎 ONE PIECE OF EVIDENCE FIRST: in 1902, a French chemist named Auguste Verneuil announced a furnace that melted aluminum oxide powder in a flame and grew a solid lump of sapphire in a matter of hours. Not an imitation. Sapphire. Within a decade, factories were producing it by the ton — and for the entire twentieth century it went into class rings, birthstone rings, men's star rings, and the little blue stone in the ring your grandmother wore to church. Nobody at the counter was lying. It WAS sapphire. So "is it real?" is the wrong question. The right question is: mined, or made? Same material. Same hardness. A difference in price of a hundred times — and the only thing that separates them is the shape of time inside the stone. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- This video is based on over 20 years of firsthand experience in the jewelry industry combined with extensive research into publicly available financial reports, SEC filings, brand earnings calls, material spot prices, and secondary market resale data from platforms including Chrono24, The RealReal, and major auction houses. Every production cost estimate and markup figure cited in this video is based on industry-standard calculations using current precious metal and gemstone wholesale pricing. FAIR USE NOTICE This video is made for educational and commentary purposes. All brand names, logos, and trademarks mentioned belong to their respective owners. Any images or footage of branded products are used under fair use for the purpose of criticism, commentary, and consumer education. This video is not sponsored by, affiliated with, or endorsed by any bra