1.85 ctw Blue Sapphire Flower & Diamond Huggie Earrings – 18k White Gold

18k White Gold Huggie Drop Earrings. Pear-Shape Blue Sapphires, 1.61 carats. Diamonds, 0.24 carats. 1.85 carats total.

Diamond-set 18k white gold huggies, each finished with a bezel-set diamond and a four-petal flower of pear-shape blue sapphires that swings just below the lobe. That is 1.61 carats of sapphire against 0.24 carats of diamonds — serious color in an earring that still wears like an everyday piece.

Sapphire is corundum, rated 9 on the Mohs scale and second only to diamond in hardness, which makes it one of the few colored stones truly suited to earrings you reach for daily. Most sapphires are heated to improve their color, a standard and stable treatment that should always be disclosed. Next to diamonds in white gold, the blue reads especially clean.

Each petal is framed in fine beaded metal, which protects the points of the pears and gives the flower a crisp outline. Easy from morning to evening; a rhodium refresh every year or two keeps the white gold bright.