It is the Prettiest Sapphire, I have ever seen...I have had midnight colored and I have had light sapphires, but none of them compares to this one---This color is right in the middle of all of them ... And it is so very pretty...and sparkles like no other sapphire has ever done ...it's not like a diamond, but better than i have ever seen... It's dainty, but pretty, and since I have Loved Black Hills Jewelry for the last 40 years...and now no Nickle is in them...since I am allergic to that, I was very tickled to find that out... It took close to 2 months, but not quite, but it was being manufactured for just me, and was like hand-made...so perfection takes time... And might I add, Jason is a saint...His wife may not think so, but I think so...at times, i was drawing short on patience...and it was more than once, I am ashamed to say...to see this ring finished...But Jason, would encourage me, with His patience, to lengthen mine...to wait longer...And I am forever Grateful! Then one day, it was being shipped and soon after that, it was in my mail box...I was so tickled, it was as if I had gotten the biggest diamond, money could buy...I was so excited, I got a hold of Jason, and told Him...it's like we birthed something...not possible, might I add...but it felt like it. And it was better in person, than pictures could ever do...I love it! Those of us who are directionally-challenged, I now have this on my right hand...so when some one says to me, Donna, turn right at this next light...I will then look down at my beautiful Sapphire, and know what they are wanting me to do....What always, baffles me, is why am I driving? ok, I think I am done...you are in luck...I have not written a book length...to read...and read...and read... Thank you for offering this to me, and it does come, it's just not in a couple of days...but it's better than you will ever expect it to be...once it arrives... Thank You! Have a Great Day! Donna