Chapter 332 A dozen times the price difference (100 monthly, monthly tickets)
Cornflower blue is a soft and bright color with a hint of purple in the blue, which is very similar to the color of cornflower flowers;
Royal blue is a rich, deep, and very dignified blue.
Currently, the best gem producing area in the world is Sri Lanka, which produces high-quality cornflower blue and royal blue.
However, it is unlikely that this kind of top-grade sapphire will appear in large numbers in front of Chen Wenzhe.
Therefore, he can only look for some fish that have slipped through the net, and can only rely on Kashmir sapphires to make up for the rest.
This is a last resort, but Kashmir sapphire is not a defective product.
It has even recently been revealed that some people have used other gemstones to pass them off as Kashmir sapphires.
Recently, the Swiss Jewelry Institute disclosed that they received a batch of sapphire samples suspected to be produced in Kashmir.
Based on a series of tests and judgment, it was discovered that the real origin of these sapphires was Madagascar.
For this reason, they issued a warning to the industry, hoping that sellers would be wary of the new "Kashmir" sapphires emerging on the market and conduct more detailed confirmation of their origin.
After all, sapphires from Kashmir are far more expensive than sapphires from Madagascar.
The difference in price per carat can reach 30-50 times. If you make a mistake, the loss will be considerable.
He kept picking out sapphires one by one, and soon there were dozens of them on the table, and only three minutes had passed.
This small safe is just an ordinary suitcase about 40 centimeters long, 30 centimeters wide, and 10 centimeters thick.
But there are thousands of sapphires in just such a small box.
Thinking again about the size of that gloomy wooden coffin, Chen Wenzhe was really a little shocked.
At that time, he kept moving things out. He really didn't expect that he would get so many gems out of them.
There are quite a few pearls and jade beads inside, right?
Unfortunately, the price of jade is not easy to determine, or it simply cannot be sold at a high price, because Chen Wenzhe has no shipping channels at all.
Pearls are even more fragile because they are made of protein and can easily deteriorate and rot.
As a result, Chen Wenzhe has much less room for choice.
He can only choose from gems and gold. Since gold is linked to the RMB, naturally he can choose less, so he must choose less.
Besides, if he simply chooses gold, he will definitely suffer a loss.
Therefore, Chen Wenzhe would naturally not be polite if given the opportunity.
Any sapphire here must be over ten carats in size. After all, it is about the size of a fingernail!
In fact, such a large sapphire only weighs a little more than two grams, but for such a small sapphire, the price is definitely high.
According to incomplete statistics, from 1979 to 2008, a total of 150 top-quality sapphires were auctioned around the world, 121 of which were Kashmir sapphires, with auction prices ranging from US$39,000 to US$135,000 per carat.
After 2008, prices have increased a lot.
Even using this outdated data, Chen Wenzhe made a lot of money this time.
Even if the carat price is taken as low as one hundred thousand dollars per carat, he still made a lot of money this time.
A top-grade sapphire is worth more than one million U.S. dollars, which is more than six million dollars when converted into RMB.
Now Chen Wenzhe buys sapphires of ten carats for a price of 500,000 yuan each. The average price of one carat is only 50,000 yuan.
This is the difference between ordinary sapphires and top-grade Kashmir sapphires, the price difference is more than ten times!
As for whether the sapphires selected by Chen Wenzhe are of the highest quality, it goes without saying.
If you can get it in front of the Empress Dowager Cixi, there is nothing wrong with it.
Not to mention Kashmir sapphires, even sapphires from other origins are all fine products and top-notch jewelry.
As time goes by, Chen Wenzhe's cheating methods become more and more skillful.
He doesn't need to look carefully at all, he can make a judgment by just touching it and seeing the origin of the sapphire.
After all, Empress Dowager Cixi a hundred years ago had people help Chen Wenzhe make countless choices.
The sapphires that can appear here are not defective.
He just needs to pick out the one with higher value.
Star sapphires are the first choice for those with good color and slightly larger size, followed by Kashmir sapphires. With this selection, I quickly collected a hundred pieces.
Even if calculated at US$50,000 per carat, the price of any gemstone is more than US$500,000.
Even if one U.S. dollar is exchanged for six yuan, this is still three million sapphires.
What's more, clarity, transparency, color, and size can also affect the price of sapphire, making them somersault upward.
Therefore, Chen Wenzhe's valuation of a sapphire at US$6 million is still a bargain price. It is considered a wholesale price, not a market price.
If it is star sapphire, the price will be higher.
This is the role of a qualified jewelry appraiser. If you are not qualified, the losses will be huge.
This means that this batch of treasures has just come out of the water. If it takes a long time, after a large number of experts, after rounds of appraisals, Chen Wenzhe will never be able to pick up such leaks.
There are no ifs in things in the world, so this time, Chen Wenzhe was not polite because he deserved such a high reward.
"Is there anything else I can choose from? I will choose these from this box, or else I will choose rubies!"
Feeling that there was really no choice left, Chen Wenzhe stopped.
After collecting them, he finally picked out nearly two hundred sapphires.
And they are all very uniform in size, color and quality.
As for the star sapphires, maybe the cut of the Wanqing period was not good, or star sapphires were simply not popular, so there are not many, and each one does not look very transparent. That is, the color is good, so it was included in the Empress Cixi.
in the coffin.
This one is inconspicuous, and the others are not too conspicuous in front of a box of sapphires.
In fact, Chen Wenzhe knew very well that among the sapphires that came out of the water, the sapphires he got were just small pieces of garbage, because the big ones were all missing.
He discovered these gems and brought them out of the water. He naturally knew that among the sapphires that came out of the water, there were many quite large ones.
As long as it's big enough, the price can skyrocket.
As Chen Wenzhe knows, there was once a 35.09-carat Kashmir sapphire that was sold at auction for US$7.45 million. Its single-carat price was US$210,000, breaking the auction record for Kashmir sapphires.
There are still more, which can often be auctioned for three to five million US dollars. It can be said that the heavier the sapphire, the better and the more expensive it is.
The weight of sapphire, like diamonds, rubies, emeralds, etc., is expressed in carats, 1 carat = 200 mg = 0.2 g.
Weight, or carat, is second only to color in terms of the value of a sapphire.
When the color and clarity of gemstones are the same, the larger the gemstone, the higher the value.
If two cornflower blue sapphires are placed in front of you, there is no doubt that the one with the larger carat is heavier and more expensive.