Natural Sphene 0.95ct 5.8mm Round Cut VS

This round sphene has a rich, warm golden-yellow body color with a buttery, honeyed quality that catches light well. The VS clarity is immediately apparent in the stone's open, transparent character, and the facets show cleanly through the body without the haziness typical of SI material. Sphene's extraordinary dispersion is prominently on display here, with vivid spectral flashes of orange, green, and rainbow colors playing across the crown in direct light. A lively and appealing stone with notably clean material for its type.

Sphene, also called titanite, holds the distinction of having dispersion significantly higher than that of diamond, making rainbow fire and spectral play its defining characteristic as a gem species. A warm golden-yellow tone is a crowd-pleasing color in sphene that flatters yellow gold and rose gold settings equally. This stone is untreated, its color entirely natural. VS clarity is worth noting for sphene, where cleaner material is less common than SI in African parcels of this type. Sphene works beautifully in pendants, drop earrings, and collector settings.

Natural sphene (titanite), VS clarity, untreated, sold loose.