Verdelite Tourmaline 8.01ct

Verdelite – 8.01 Carats of Green Tourmaline, Elongated and Unforgettable

At 17.94 x 8.04 x 5.42 mm, this verdelite does not behave like a typical gemstone. It stretches. It reaches. Its elongated proportions give it an architectural quality that immediately suggests grand jewellery – the kind of piece that gets passed down, written about, remembered. And at the centre of all of that: the green.

Verdelite is the trade name for green tourmaline, derived from the Latin viridis, and it has been prized by collectors and jewellers for centuries – not for rarity in the way alexandrite is rare, but for the particular quality of its colour. Tourmaline green is warm where emerald is cool, organic where tsavorite is electric. It carries depth rather than intensity, the kind of green that recalls light filtering through forest canopy, leaves held against the sun, living colour rather than mineral colour. Across 8.01 carats of eye-clean material, that quality has genuine room to express itself.

The octagon cut – eight sides, step-cut facets, measured and architectural – suits these proportions perfectly. It emphasises the length of the stone, organises its surface with quiet precision and allows light to travel through in long, even paths. There is no aggressive sparkle here, no rapid-fire scintillation. Instead there is a steady, deep luminosity that grows more compelling the longer you look.

Eye-clean at this size is genuinely noteworthy. Tourmaline, particularly in larger stones, is prone to inclusions – and a specimen of over eight carats that shows none to the naked eye represents a real quality threshold.

For anyone building a piece of jewellery around a stone that truly leads – this verdelite is exactly that stone.

When purchasing this tourmaline, you will receive a report from Ms. Breisach, which also states a replacement value of €2,750.