My Deep-sea Fishery

Song Chaoshu took the bead and looked at it carefully.

Black pearl is actually a kind of bronze-colored pearl, which is a very precious jewelry variety. It symbolizes the crystallization of the most difficult years. It is called the most painful tears of mother shells. It is rare and noble after suffering.

"Black pearls are very rare and the most expensive of all types of pearls. Every natural black pearl is worth a fortune."

Song Chaoshu carefully observed the black pearl, "Especially before the black seeded South Sea pearl was successfully put on the market, there were only very expensive natural black pearls on the market at that time, or the seeded akoya pearls that would fade. Pearls are dyed black with silver nitrate, and there are also a small number of imitation black pearls. In the past three decades, pearl cultivation in French Polynesia has been successfully developed. In 1976, the Gemological Institute of America recognized the cultured black pearls produced in Tahiti. It was a cultured pearl with a natural color and then black pearls started to drop in price.”

Xiang Yang asked: "Then how much is my black pearl worth?"

Song Chaoshu shook his head, "I don't know."

Xiang Yang blinked, "Aren't you in the jewelry business?"

"Because the market has never priced natural black pearls."

The annual output of high-quality black pearls is estimated to be no more than 150,000, of which more than 95% are cultured pearls, and the remaining small part is the real wild natural black pearls.

More than 60% of this small part of natural black pearls are collected by big families such as the British royal family and the Dubai royal family.

Less than 40% of wild natural black pearls are sold through annual international auctions.

Moreover, most of the black pearls in the auctioned natural black pearls have a particle size between 9mm and 10mm, and more than 60% of the black pearls have a particle size of no more than 11mm.

Therefore, in the circle, 11mm is generally regarded as the treasure limit of black pearls. Fine round black pearls above 11mm are so rare that there are no ready-made reference market prices, and the price of each pearl varies greatly.

"This is a very rare black seedless natural pearl. You can't find more than a hundred of them in all the jewelry stores across the country. Each one is like the treasure of a super-large jeweler's town store. , it is difficult to use an accurate market price to measure." Song Chaoshu explained.

Common black pearls on the market are generally divided into four types.

Among them, the best quality is plant-planted cultured black pearls, which are also called natural pearls. The price of this kind of black pearls is about 7,000 to 8,000 yuan per gram, and the price is 20 times that of an equivalent amount of gold.

Slightly inferior are also very rare brown to black seedless cultured pearls, which include nucleated akoya pearls that fade after two or three years of wearing, dyed black pearls, radiant pearls, and the latest pearls that appear on online shopping malls. The so-called "laser-treated" pearls.

The most representative of this kind of pearls is the lophelia Tahitian seawater black pearl pendant, the color is not pure black, malachite green, dark blue, etc. This kind of pearl, which is well-known at home and abroad, is lethal to women from the age of eighteen to eighty, and it can be sold on a certain treasure.

Next in class is the imitation pearl made of black shell, which is a pearl imitation made of black shell that has been shaped into a bead and polished to give it a pearly luster.

The lowest and cheapest kind of black pearls are painted pearls, which are directly painted with black pigment on the milky white pearls, such pearls will fade directly, and do not have jewelry, and are usually dragged by a large truck. It is sold at the door of vegetable markets in some cities.

The difference between natural black pearls and cultured black pearls is to change the color of black pearls and imitations. In fact, it is only necessary to carefully observe the luster of the pearls to see if the pearls of the pearls come from under the thin polymer layer. The surface, treated from the inside of the pearl, is the same as the glass marble.

Professionals can observe whether the color of the top and side of the pearl is reflected normally,

Some pearls have a pink tinge on the top and a blue tinge on the sides, and some black pearls have a purple tinge on the top and a green tinge on the sides, all of which are artificially processed black pearls.

"Boss Xiang, your luck is really boundless." Song Chaoshu said enviously, "Are you ready to sell this black pearl? If you sell it, you can make a price first."

Xiang Yang was indeed prepared to make a move, but he didn't know the price of the black pearl very well, so he said: "Boss Song, you are specialized in this field, so it's not easy to price this black pearl. How can I, a fisherman, know the price of this black pearl?" How much is a good price for the black pearl?"

Song Chaoshu stared at Xiang Yang for a while.

It is not difficult to see the so-called "black pearls" in ordinary jewelry stores, but those merchants seem to have forgotten to add the word "dye" before the word "black". When ordinary people ask whether these black pearls are real, profiteers Generally speaking, they will also answer in a clever way: this is a real cultured pearl.

Yes, those pearls are usually dyed with real seawater or freshwater cultured beads, but they will not tell the seller whether the jadeite has been optimized B or C like the jadeite sellers.

Because it is not against the law not to tell the seller whether the pearls have been dyed or not. If a businessman dares to sell dyed pearls in Tahiti, the main producing area of ​​black pearls, he will be jailed in return.

Song Chaoshu wanted Xiang Yang to call himself to check the prices of those black pearls in the mall and make an offer, but he had certain concerns.

Doing jewelry business is actually doing word of mouth.

For example, some jewelry brands advertised that wedding rings of a certain quality can only be purchased for one pair in a lifetime with an ID card. When you go to buy the second pair, even if you give them double the money, they will not sell it.

Why not make money? Their boss is stupid?

No, these are actually the word-of-mouth and brand culture of those big jewelry industries. As long as they spread this word-of-mouth, they will be a gold-lettered signboard in the future.

No amount of money can exchange the word-of-mouth that has been accumulated little by little over decades or hundreds of years.

If he cheated Xiang Yang here, his reputation would be ruined if this matter got out in the future.

Song Chaoshu thought for a while before saying: "According to the rules of the industry, we will not ask for a price for such pearls. These things that have no market price are priced by the owner of the item. You give me a price in your heart." Then I will roughly evaluate whether it is worth the price, if it is worth it, I will buy it, if it is not worth it, you can bargain the price yourself, do you think it will work?"