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Collection Quality Pearls
CHOSEN BY CHARLIE HIMSELF
Collection Quality pearls have a surface that is UNLBLEMISHED or what we call FLAWLESS. In other words, there are no surface markings on the pearls. AMERICAN PEARL is your source for the thickest NACRE (skin) PEARLS IN THE WORLD. Known as the "Collection Pearls", COLLECTION QUALITY refers to the roundest, cleanest most lustrous Japanese Akoya pearls harvested each year from Japan. Each pearl is personally chosen by world-renowned pearl dealer CHARLIE BAKHASH (a modern day Mikimoto), passing a strict grading standard for luster, roundness, cleanliness, pure white bodycolor and the quintessential "nacre thickness" and the coveted "Rose" hue that makes these paragan of pearls known as the "collection pearls". For over 55 years, everyone in America and Japan knows that CHARLIE sells the finest quality Japanese Akoya pearls available in the world. Period.
INCONTROVERTIBLY THE FINEST, GUARANTEED TO BE JAPANESE AKOYA
If you are looking for the finest quality Japanese Akoya Cultured Pearl necklace available, with the assurance of knowing that the necklace is indeed Japanese Akoya, you are looking for COLLECTION QUALITY pearls. Each pearl is documented to have a total "nacre thickness" or the skin of the pearl of 2mm for an average size of 8mm to 9mm. Smaller sizes such as 7mm to 8mm will have a total nacre thickness of 1.5mm wheras 6mm to 7mm will have a total nacre thickness of 1.2mm.
American Pearl feels so strongly about this superior quality pearl necklace that each necklace is accompanied by a PROOF PEARL taken from the necklace that is cut in half to reveal the nacre and a numbered certificate reporting the grading each pearl necklace receives based on its nomenclature. Please click below to learn more...
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IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING PEARL QUALITY
Not all pearls are created equally. In addition, there are several characteristics that make up a pearl's quality that are easy to overlook. We believe that consumers are entitled to the whole story.
In summation, THERE IS ONLY ONE BEST.
We know our pearl strands are the finest quality as we have the first look of the Japanese Akoya pearl harvest each year as we have been doing so for the past 55 years. Anything else from an outside source is simply second best. In addition, the seller and the buyer will cherish this business relationship as it is built up over decades even centuries and they will pass it down to the second and third generations as is the case with American Pearl. Rest assured, your newly bought Collection Quality strand represents three generations of trust, honesty and integrity in pearling.
Unlike diamonds that are subject to a subtractive grading system, pearls are bound by an additive grading system. What does this mean? The best diamond in the world is D color and flawless; there is no better. With pearls, there is always some pearl elsewhere that could be slightly better. How do we know this? If you examine the nomenclature for which Japanese Akoya cultured pearls are graded against (luster, nacre thickness, bodycolor, shape, matching, surface imperfections and overtones) as set forth by the Gemological Institute of America (GIA), most of the criteria in each category are additive except shape. That is, there is always something better.
For example, take Luster. Luster is the mirror-like quality of a pearl. According to the Gemological Institute of America's pearl grading system, luster can be low, medium, high or very high. What if it is extremely high and off the charts? Any pearl farmer will tell you that they frequently find pearls whose characteristics are “off the charts" as is the case with Hanadama.
Pearls whose matching is not 100% (meaning that not 10 out of every 10 pearls matches exactly) are also worth less. Having a cultured pearl necklace where all of the pearls truly look like one another is a paragon; resulting in more valuable pearls.
In addition, what if the pearl's are much cleaner than the highest grade of "very slightly" imperfected on the certificate? What if the pearls are UNBLEMISHED? Did you know that pearls that are very slightly blemished can be worth half as much as their UNBLEMISHED counterparts?
American Pearl sells the thickest nacre pearls in the world in our Collection Quality, Hanadama, AAA, AA, A+ and A Grades. What is the exact NACRE THICKNESS (the skin of the pearl) measured to be for your exact strand? Is it 1mm, .50mm or .6mm? Pearls are bought and sold by weight. Thicker NACRE pearls are heavier, more durable and therefore worth more. In addition, luster and nacre are directly correlated, a nacre thickness of 1mm on each side of the pearl (which we can guarantee you) is more lustrous than a .6mm or .5mm and therefore worth more.
It is truly difficult to capture the awe of an exceptional strand of cultured pearls; although we have tried here in many, many words. As a second generation pearl company, we can assure you that the pearls we offer are consistently the finest that we have ever seen in our 55 years of business. As the first seller of this quality pearls online, we have truly pioneered this space and have a legion of happy customers who have purchased this specific product.
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