The natural baroque pearls are the best.🤗 The Marie Antoinette pearl pendant fatched 32 milion and 36 milion with vat. 🤔 Some are more rare than diamonds.
Well baroque pearls tend to have more colorful overtones and are more likely to exhibit orient. They also come in different shapes that people like, from near round to flame ball to free form. Most natural pearls today and throughout history have not been perfect rounds, so some of the most famous pearl jewels, from the Canning Jewel to some of the pearls set in the British Royal Crown, are baroque or semi-baroque. Baroque pearls may not be to everyone’s tastes, but they are hardly “waste pearls.”
You could look at it that way, but some people love them for their unique and one of a kind shapes. A lot of modern cultured pearls are “perfectly round” because the bead nucleus is covered with only a thin layer of nacre. Apparently, Akoya pearls with only a mere 0.40mm layer of nacre covering the bead nucleus is considered “thick” according to industry standards, lol… you’re basically paying for beads that had been plated with thin layers of nacre. Over time, the nacre could eventually wear down and expose the bead nucleus. Because of this, I personally think that “perfectly round” pearls are usually a scam. Those with “thicker” nacre would be approximately 2mm to 4mm and you would have to pay a premium for them. These are usually found in larger South Sea Pearls, but the fact that the nacre grew around a bead nucleus still makes their “perfectly round shape” feel “unnatural”… it feels like “cheating” because the nacre simply took the shape of the bead nucleus that they’ve implanted into the oyster. If we go back in time, then you would see that the vast majority of royals and nobles didn’t wear “perfectly round” pearls… even Marie Antoinette’s jewelry collection features “slightly-off-round, off-round and baroque” pearls. Personally I don’t see anything wrong with pearls that are not perfectly round, if anything, their different shapes actually gives them a bit of character.
