{"product_id":"blue-sapphire-diamond-double-butterfly-earrings-18k-white-gold","title":"0.94 ctw Blue Sapphire \u0026 Diamond Double Butterfly Earrings – 18k White Gold","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e18k white gold. 36 blue sapphires, 0.26 ctw. 86 round diamonds, 0.68 ctw. 1.22 carats total. Double butterfly design.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThirty-six blue sapphires across 0.26 carats. That is about seven thousandths of a carat per stone — roughly a millimeter each.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHere is the part most people never hear: melee sapphire at that size is harder to source than melee diamond, and more expensive per carat than its weight suggests. With diamonds you are matching colorlessness, which is a narrow target but a familiar one. With blue sapphire you are matching a color, and blue sapphire varies wildly — steel, inky, violet, greenish, pale. Finding thirty-six that agree at a millimeter across, where you cannot recut or adjust anything, means sorting through a great many to keep a few.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe design puts them where they earn it. Sapphire carries color but very little brilliance at this scale; diamond carries brilliance. So the sapphires trace the wing pattern and the eighty-six diamonds do the sparkling around them. Reverse those roles and the piece would read washed out.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwo butterflies per ear, at slightly different sizes, which is what gives the design its sense of motion — a single symmetrical butterfly reads static and a bit literal. The offset pair reads like something caught mid-flight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhite gold throughout. Blue sapphire is easily dulled by warm metal reflecting into it; a cool setting keeps the blue true and lets the diamonds stay icy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBoth stones are near the top of the hardness scale — sapphire at 9, diamond at 10 — so despite the delicacy of the design, there is nothing fragile in it\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Diamond Tales","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49127372488858,"sku":"AH7766","price":2800.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0514\/5054\/4282\/files\/blue-sapphire-diamond-double-butterfly-earrings-18k-white-gold.png?v=1787775651","url":"https:\/\/www.diamondtales.com\/products\/blue-sapphire-diamond-double-butterfly-earrings-18k-white-gold","provider":"DIAMOND TALES","version":"1.0","type":"link"}