Black Tahitian Pearl- Things You Need to Know Before Buying the Black Tahitian Pearl

Black Tahitian Pearl is the most beautiful pearl in the world. No wonder it has their own sophisticated elegance when it turn to jewelry creation. On that reason we need may need to know or have a little bit knowledge of these gorgeous creature before we start buying them.

Here a little bit information you may need about Black Tahitian Pearl.

1) Pearls Grades.

Basically, pearl are graded into 3 types of grade and they are A, AA and AAA. Each grade definitely have their own properties. This definitely will help you to know what grade you should pick and to make sure that it is within your budget.

2) Shape.

Black Tahitian Pearl comes with variety of shapes and for sure round shape is the rare shape among them. It is important for you to decide which shape you may choose to suit your earring style. We can find them in round, near round, drop, circle, baroque and oval.

3) Nacre.

Nacre plays an important rule before start buying them. It is all about the greenish-black and blue orient color reflected from the black pearl when you applying the light through the layers of nacre. Strong orient means higher quality.

4) Size.

Pearls shaped in several range of size. Black Tahitian Pearl are tend to be larger than the others. The minimum size is 8 mm and normally the average size is between 10 mm to 11 mm. If you are looking on valuable pearl, you might pick the bigger size.

5) Lustre.

Lustre is the shine reflected from the pearl and it is collaborated with nacre. The more thicker of nacre, the more shining it has.

6) Color.

Black Tahitian Pearl doesn’t mean the color is only black. It may be gray, cream, blue, turquoise, pink or gold. Another interested part from black pearl itself. The color is depends on what occasion you may wearing it.

7) Surface quality.

Make sure the surface is smooth. Some Black Tahitian Pearl having a blemishes and crack on its surface which down the grade.

Black Tahitian Pearl

Tahitian pearls are produced in the black-lipped oyster ‘Pinctada margaritifera’, in and around Tahiti and the French Polynesian islands. They are the only pearl to achieve a black body color naturally and are typically very large(9mm - 16mm).

Tahitian pearls although mostly dark can come in a wide range of hues, including black, gray, silver, green, blue and purple. Truly black pearls are among the most beautiful pearls in the world, and are extremely rare.

Black Tahitian Pearl are highly valued because of their rarity; the culturing process for them dictates a smaller volume output and can never be mass produced. This is due to bad health and/or non-survival of the process, rejection of the nucleus and their sensitivity to changing climatic and ocean conditions. Before the days of cultured pearls, black pearls were rare and highly valued for the simple reason that white pearl oysters rarely produced naturally black pearls, and black pearl oysters rarely produced any natural pearls at all.

Black cultured pearls from the black pearl oyster — Pinctada margaritifera — are not South Sea pearls, although they are often mistakenly described as black South Sea pearls. In the absence of an official definition for the pearl from the black oyster, these pearls are usually referred to as "black Tahitian pearls".
The correct definition of a South Sea pearl — as described by CIBJO and the GIA — is a pearl produced by the Pinctada maxima pearl oyster. South Sea pearls are the color of their host Pinctada maxima oyster — and can be white, silver, pink, gold, cream, and any combination of these basic colors, including overtones of the various colors of the rainbow displayed in the pearl nacre of the oyster shell itself.