Discover: Opals

Words by Elise

Australian Opal Necklace by Brooke Gregson

A celebration of earth’s natural wonders. This necklace is a color story made of gems arranged alongside harmoniously-adjacent hues.

Wear solo to striking effect, or layer to echo and enhance a variety of natural tones and textures.

This one-of-akind piece is exclusive to Chariots on Fire

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.