Tanzanite Purple-Blue Pendant Necklace — Rare Beauty

The Rarest Color in the Gemstone World — Tanzanite Pendant Necklace

This Tanzanite Purple-Blue Pendant Necklace brings the most extraordinary trichroic gemstone in the world to the neckline — tanzanite, found only in a single square mile of Tanzania at the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro, the stone that shifts between deep blue and vivid violet depending on the angle of light, the stone that Tiffany & Co. declared the most beautiful gemstone discovered in two thousand years. Rare, spectacular, and utterly unlike anything else.

Product Details

• Tanzanite-effect purple-blue pendant on a fine chain necklace
• Trichroic color shift — blue, violet, and burgundy depending on light angle
• Deep, rich color with natural luminosity and depth
• Adjustable chain length for versatile styling
• A complete rare beauty statement, spectacular and deeply meaningful

Tanzanite — Found Only Once, in One Place, in the History of the Earth

Tanzanite was discovered in 1967 by a Maasai tribesman named Ali Juuyawatu, who found brilliant blue crystals glittering in the sun near the village of Merelani in northern Tanzania. Within two years, Tiffany & Co. had acquired distribution rights and named it tanzanite after its country of origin — and declared it the most significant gemstone discovery in two thousand years. Its extraordinary quality is trichroism: viewed from different angles, tanzanite shows deep sapphire blue, vivid violet, and a warm burgundy — three completely different colors in a single stone, depending entirely on where the light falls. Geologists estimate that tanzanite is a thousand times rarer than diamond and that the existing deposits will be exhausted within decades. To wear tanzanite is to wear a piece of geological history that cannot be replaced.

A magnificently rare and beautiful gift for those who appreciate genuinely extraordinary things, for December birthdays, and for anyone who deserves jewelry as rare and irreplaceable as they are.