Discover: Opals

Words by Elise & Ritsuko

Brooke Gregson’s Unique Boulder Opal Specimen Georgian - set in 18K Gold.

Ancient Greek mythology spoke of the opal as ‘Zeus’s tears;’ Arabic legend claims the stone to be born at the moment of a lightning rod’s strike to the earth. In equal manner does the Boulder-Opal harness for itself the seeming dichotomies of fire and ice—across the stone’s interplay of color, each surges forth to a kind of mesmerizing coexistence.

A stone endlessly reticent of any singular tonal expression, it displays an unpredictable, seemingly mystic diffraction of light—the literal manifestation of ‘opalescence.’

Amongst the rarest varieties of opal, Boulder-Opal embeds itself on the surface of sedimentary rock—sandstone or ironstone, customarily—which lends it a unique durability.