Alexandrite Color Change Ring — Magic & Duality

The Stone That Is Never the Same Stone Twice — Alexandrite Ring

This Alexandrite Color Change Ring brings the most dramatic and magical optical phenomenon in the gemstone world to the finger — alexandrite, the stone that is emerald green in daylight and ruby red under incandescent light, the stone that changes its entire identity depending on the light that falls on it, the stone that has been called an emerald by day and a ruby by night. One ring. Two completely different gemstones. Endless fascination.

Product Details

• Alexandrite-effect color change ring design
• Genuine alexandrite or high-quality alexandrite-effect stone
• Green in daylight, red/purple under incandescent light — dramatic color change
• Elegant ring setting that showcases the stone’s magical transformation
• A complete duality statement, endlessly surprising and deeply meaningful

Alexandrite — The Tsar’s Stone of Imperial Russia & the Color Change Miracle

Alexandrite was discovered in the Ural Mountains of Russia in 1830 — the same day, according to legend, as the future Tsar Alexander II came of age, and named in his honor. Its color change — green in daylight, red under artificial light — conveniently matched the colors of Imperial Russia, making it immediately the most fashionable gemstone at the Russian court. Alexandrite’s color change is caused by an extraordinary absorption property: chromium within the stone absorbs light differently depending on the wavelength of the light source, making it appear green in the broad-spectrum natural daylight that emphasizes blue-green wavelengths, and red under incandescent light that emphasizes red wavelengths. No other commonly available gemstone does this so dramatically. June’s birthstone, alexandrite is the stone of duality, of adaptability, and of the understanding that showing different aspects of yourself in different lights is not inconsistency but the fullest expression of complexity.

A magnificently magical and complex gift for June birthdays, for those who contain multitudes, and for anyone who deserves jewelry as endlessly fascinating and impossible to fully know as they are.