Weight alone marks this stone: at 2.165 carats, this pear-shaped alexandrite ranks among the largest pieces of clean, facetable rough this deposit has produced in recent memory — most Ural material this size gets sacrificed to yield well before it holds a full pear silhouette intact. The cutter kept the shape rather than chase a rounder, safer outline, and the result carries real scale on the hand at 9.11 × 6.59 × 5.39 mm. In daylight it shows a deep bluish green with genuine tonal weight; under incandescent light it shifts into a dense, saturated purple that matches the stone's overall gravity rather than a light, easy change. This is alexandrite doing what collectors chase size specifically to see — the full transformation, at full scale.
