This contemporary custom-made platinum ring features a very rare 2.05 carat oval Russian Alexandrite.
The Alexandrite changes its color from bluish green (daylight) to pinkish purple (incandescent light). The color change is prominent to strong (80-90%) and the quality of color change is excellent to very good.
The ring is accompanied by the American Gemological Laboratories Prestige gemstone report No. 1140480.
Ring size 7 (17 mm) resizable.
Alexandrite, the color-changing variety of Chrysoberyl, was first discovered on April 17, 1834 in the Russia’s Ural Mountains by the Finnish mineralogist Nils Gustaf Nordenskiold of the St. Petersburg Science Academy. He was amazed that at night, under a candle light, the stone changed its color from green to purple. He named the newly discovered stone Alexandrite, in honor of Tsarevich Alexander (later Tsar Alexander II, ruled 1855-1881), who was turning 16 on the day of the discovery.