14.0-16.0 mm Round Golden South Sea Pearl Necklace on bust
18K yellow gold diamond ball clasp (72 diamonds, 4.19 ctw)
14.0-16.0 mm Round Golden South Sea Pearl Necklace
Museum-grade Golden South Sea pearl necklace, 27 pearls 14.0–16.0 mm, 30.4 momme. Dark golden, intense luster, 18k YG 4.19 cttw diamond clasp.
14.0-16.0 mm Round Golden South Sea Pearl Necklace diamond clasp
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Golden South Sea · The Philippines

Assael Collection: 14.0–16.0 mm Round Golden South Sea Pearl Necklace, 17.25 inches

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$182,040.00with the clasp you choose

The strand you see is the strand you receive. We photograph every strand in our Los Angeles studio. No stock photography, and no other strand like it.

Want to see more of this strand first?
  • Free insured FedEx 2-day shipping, and free returns
  • 90 days to return it for a full refund
  • Certificate stating origin, quality and characteristics

This strand

Measured and matched by hand

Pearl size
14.0-16.0 mm
Shape
Round
Grade
Select Gem
Depth of gold
Deep Gold
Length
18 Inches
We can add pearls to lengthen it, or remove pearls to shorten it. Ask before you order.
Pearl type
Golden South Sea
Origin
The Philippines
Natural color, never treated
Clasp
18K Gold
Diamonds
4.19 carats
G color, VS1 clarity
Natural, never lab-grown
Stringing
Double-knotted silk

Golden South Sea color

What Deep Gold means

Golden South Sea pearls run from a soft, pale gold to a deep and saturated one. The color comes from the gold-lipped oyster and from the donor tissue used at nucleation. It is never dyed or coated.

Depth describes saturation, not quality. A lighter pearl with exceptional luster and a clean surface can be worth more than a darker one without them. Deep gold is simply the rarest, and when it arrives with fine luster and good shape it is among the most valuable cultured pearls in the world.

  • Light Gold Soft and pale. About the warmth of 10 karat gold. Reads as a glow across the piece rather than as a color.
  • Gold The color most people picture. Close to 14 karat gold, and the middle of the range.
  • Rich Gold Noticeably deeper, nearer 18 karat. Uncommon, and the point at which color starts driving the price.
  • Deep Gold This piece. The rarest. As saturated as 24 karat gold. Only a small part of any harvest reaches it, and matching a strand takes years.

The karat comparisons are there to give you something familiar to picture. Nothing about a pearl is measured that way, and the pearls contain no gold.

Golden South Sea grading

What Select Gem means on this strand

Our grades consider luster, shape, surface and matching together, and luster is what they turn on. For surface we describe what the piece actually looks like rather than quoting a clean percentage. At these sizes a piece will almost always carry some marking, and a number cannot tell you whether that marking matters.

  • ALow to medium luster, noticeable variation from the stated shape, and marking readily visible across the piece.
  • AA+Medium to high luster with some variation in shape. More marking, sometimes accepted for the beauty of the piece as a whole.
  • AA+/AAAVery high luster, closely conforming to its stated shape. Most pearls very clean, with a few carrying more. The combined grade describes variation in surface, not mixed luster or an inconsistently matched strand.
  • AAAVery high luster, closely conforming to its stated shape, clean overall with any marking minor enough not to draw the eye.

Select Gem. This piece. A selection that sits outside this scale rather than above it. Not a tier we sort into, but a collection built over time: exceptional natural color, shape and surface at once, with any marking slight or sitting where a setting will cover it. Collected one pearl at a time, then assembled pearl by pearl.

Read the full grading standards

14.0–16.0 mm round golden South Sea pearl and diamond necklace
27 round golden South Sea pearls · deep golden color · 30.4 momme · approx. 17.25 inches · 18K yellow gold diamond ball clasp (72 diamonds, 4.19 ctw)

Among the finest golden South Sea strands in the world. Twenty-seven perfectly round pearls measuring 14.0 to 16.0 mm, in an intensely dark natural golden color, the deepest and most coveted grade the species produces. Large round goldens are rare on their own, and to find them with color this saturated, matched evenly across a full strand, is exceptional.

With golden pearls, color is everything. Size and roundness set the stage, but it is the depth and richness of the gold, how saturated and how alive the color reads, that separates a great strand from a common one. The finest goldens glow rather than simply appear yellow, and that quality is impossible to judge from a specification. Every pearl here was selected and matched for that depth of color, the kind of selection Assael was known for.

Finished at approximately 17.25 inches with an 18K yellow gold clasp set with 72 natural diamonds totaling 4.19 carats.

The true color of a golden strand only reveals itself in person, so we’d be glad to arrange a private viewing, at our Los Angeles vault or by virtual appointment, where the depth of this gold comes fully alive.

A museum-caliber strand from the Assael Collection, held in our Los Angeles vault. Once it sells, it will not be available again.

Before you decide

We can show you this strand first

This strand is finished and it is here, in our Los Angeles vault. Before you buy it we will take it out and photograph it again for you, in whatever light or angle would help.

If there is something specific you want to see, a close look at the surface, the drill holes, the clasp, or the strand on a neck, just say so.

What you will see

New photographs of this exact strand, taken today.

We usually reply within one business day, Monday through Friday. Only one of these exists, so it stays available to everyone until it sells.

The same on every piece we sell

What you can count on before you look at a single pearl

We do our own buying

We do not outsource our buying, and we do not pick from someone else's catalog. Every pearl we sell is sourced, inspected and bought by us, from the growers, producers and dealers we have worked with for decades.

Natural color, guaranteed

Nothing we sell in this category is dyed, irradiated or color enhanced. The color you see grew in the oyster.

Finished in Los Angeles

Matched, strung and finished by our own team, with a solid gold clasp and a safety catch. Length and clasp can be changed before we ship.

Included with purchase

It arrives ready to give, or to keep

  • Certificate of authenticity

    Individually prepared, stating the origin, quality and characteristics of these pearls.

  • Presentation box and pouch

    For presenting the pearls and for keeping them safe between wearings.

  • Care kit

    A polishing cloth and instructions for keeping your pearls beautiful.

Buying from us

This piece is one of a kind

It has no reviews of its own because only one exists. These are reviews of Pearl Paradise from people who bought something else.

The first pearls received I wasn't the biggest fan of their color. They sent me some pictures closer to what I was looking for and let me trade. The pearls are even better looking in person and it was a very fast delivery

Daniel G. · Verified buyer

I was nervous purchasing something so expensive but when I received them I was mesmerize by these pearls. They are stunning and I highly recommend Hanadamas.

Laraine T. · Verified buyer

The web site was full of information and well organized. My order was lost in shipping, but PearlParadise replaced the order immediately after they were notified and paid for express shipping. Great Service.

Christopher G. · Verified buyer