A lot of people generally think there are just white pearls. The colors of the pearls depends upon their environment, the colors of the sand, the Flora and Fauna, the water itself...it all affects the colors and quality of the outcome of the pearls.
Thats completely false lmao, the different colors come from different mollusks. The quality of the pearl will effect shade and defects, but the sand color has absolutely nothing to do with it, and seeded pearls aren't made with sand.
@@tooterfireball4018that’s an awesome way to look at it, like everyone would love a perfect pearl but I’m sure there must be a pearl perfect or imperfect that will be more appealing to you that anyone else
@@Adrian-Trivani it can come out of either orifice. And sometimes a dead sperm whale washes up, killed by giant clumps of ambergris stuck in their intestines. Which is very nice for the people cutting open the carcass, but less nice for the whale.
@@concerningindividual629She weighs one hundred fifty kilograms and fires two hundred dollar, custom-tooled cartridges at ten thousand rounds per minute.
@@geirkselim2697 you realize that there are .50cal BB and pellet guns now right 😂 you can literally get almost any caliber bb gun now ... 38/357/9mm, .45 .50 ....
It's funny and all, but y'all need to remember, that oysters have no brain(or at least not something that can produce any actual thinking) and are practically just a mass of cells doing their things. And they are no better than a plant in terms of activity, so they probably don't have any pain sense, as pain is usually found in organisms able to learn and adapt. So yeah, they pretty much can't really feel anything.
@@anastasiaalimova5452That's what they want you to think. Real Doctors used to do surgery on infants with no anesthetic because they didn't think babies could feel pain either.
No, the difference between that tiny, dull, not round pearl and the large high luster, perfectly round is very obvious. One might not guess a $10,000 difference but it's obvious that one is far more valuable.
@@dasamont8274 kinda? Making pearls is their self defence mechanism. When an oysters accidentally inhaled some debris that is larger than a sand grain it got trapped inside of them. The closest thing I could compare it to is humans having kidney stones but it's not really like that.
You can have an even more perfect one made in a silicone mold with recirculating water with the right chemicals in a tenth of the time, and you would need a microscope to tell the difference in origin between a natural and artificial one.
I read about a lady who found a pearl in her food when dining out with her boyfriend. She ordered mussels and thought that one of her teeth must’ve fallen out when she bit the pearl, but it was a good sized and nicely shaped pearl! She kept it and commissioned a jeweller to set it in her engagement ring later :)
ahem, im clam and i agree. i made that pearl and he's trying to rip people off. thank you for your time. unfortunately my people don't have a flag in the emojis yet but i've contacted the emoji clan at Apple and and Samsung to get the Glam Clam (the name of our flag) in the emoji line up. 🦪 (i know that's an oyster but that's all i got)
I could agree when it comes to fashion, but when it comes to things like pearls, the scarcity of good pearls cannot be manufactured. The nuclei used in making pearls has to be perfectly spherical cause any imperfections will show up very clearly on the finished pearl, moreover, as explained they farm these oysters in open water. It's hard work and they deserve every dollar they get. I've met a few of these fishermen in Indonesia. Tough, hardworking guys that hang the nests in the ocean and usually a lady or two to insert the nuclei. Personally I don't like the one featured here as it lacks any iridescence like some of the other ones. The nuclei have gotten bigger as the smaller they are the more their imperfections are magnified for a given diameter pearl. However, this also means that pearls are getting bigger for a much lower price.
I actually really like those B grades. I don’t see anyone talking about them, but that dark gray color with the semi gloss luster looks so nice to me..
I actually once had an irregular shaped white pearl and I love it so much. Perfectly round pearls are being immitated and even though genuine, they sometimes look fake unless you know the diff between fake and real pearls at first glance.
Right? Looking at it now. I couldn't tell it apart from some metal ball. Honstly I'd rather have some fake colorful stone or glass to put on some jewelry
@@nonmilavodacapitalism a machine could make one identical easy but because of rampant consumerism it gets its price jacked all the way up just like diamonds
@@saturnzrose Because you're looking at it from the perspective of wanting something that looks nice. Someone else looks at it from the perspective of its history. Limited edition things, old or retro stuff, they all get expensive based on the history and lack of items available.
As beautiful as the high-grade pearls are, I still really enjoy the irregularity and imperfections in lower-grade or freshwater pearls. They can still make some beautiful and elegant pieces, but also lend an interesting naturalistic, textural look.
i honestly love the misshapen pearls. they have so much character and would look like beautiful organized chaos if made into jewelry together with each other
I made my mother a necklace of misshapen pearls I bought at an auction. They came with a hole drilled in them so I could string them. The looked lovely when bunched up together on a string. I asked a jeweler what kind of string to use for pearls, but I don't remember now what he said. If you buy some, a jeweler can string them for you.
I like artificial pearls. Perfectly round, any size you want, basically identical to natural pearls except under a microscope with niche technical knowledge, far cheaper. No-one looking at a moderately high quality artificial pearl necklace is going to know the difference at normal personal space viewing distance. If its made inside a creature or a silicone mold with tubes circulating water full of the same chemicals at higher concentrations, it's a pearl and only the very rich will care about the difference.
I bought an oyster at a touristy place in Hawaii for a dollar, my oyster had a beautiful big blue pearl, the seller tried desperately to get me to chose a different oyster, because my pearl wasn't white, I laughed and said I'm happy with what I got, he said he's never seen anything like this happen before. I feel lucky.
Or he hustled you into thinking it was unique. Touristy sellers like that do that kind of thing in hopes of using your excitement to draw in more potential customers from anyone that may have been within eye/earshot. If it WAS unique, then good on ya! But, knowing how these folks operate makes be believe it's the former, and not the latter.
@@user-sc5gr8zr3q there’s less naturally occurring copper than there is naturally occurring is gold Diamonds are neither scarce or rare Prior to electronics gold didn’t have a practical use, just decorative. Can you tell me what unique purpose it had in antiquity that lead did not? It was shiny and stayed shiny….that about it. Copper and tin was actually harder to smelt. Gold was often found out in the open. Platinum and other PGMs are rarer and much harder to refine, but the price doesn’t reflect that.
@@Menuki Well I didn’t think I’d be this guy, but i’ve seen similar remarks floating around and i feel as though it is incumbent upon me to comment. Anyone who has a better understanding of the subject, feel free to chime in. Here goes. First, gold doesn’t oxidize. Since it doesn’t form oxides, it remains pure when you have it laying around. When oxides form, rust develops and flakes away. So if you leave copper, tin, and gold bars lying around, eventually the copper and tin bars will lose their weight as rust forms and flakes off. If you’re using it as a currency, you’d want it to remain relatively stable and uniform. Next, gold is more rare than copper. In terms of all of the gold and copper on earth, by roughly two orders of magnitude. This is a consequence of copper having a lower atomic weight. Generally, the higher the atomic weight of an element, the rarer it is. This follows from the following. Most hydrogen and helium was formed from the primordial soup of subatomic particles following the big bang. Heavier elements are formed during stellar nucleosynthesis. The heavier the element is, the more energy is required to form it. Intuitively (and as a direct consequence of entropy) regions of higher energy are rarer than regions of lower energy. So heavier = rarer (this isn’t 100 percent correct, there are exceptions because nucleosynthetic theory is slightly more complicated than that. Has to do with stability during synthesis) I didn’t mention diamonds (???), and i’m aware of their artificial scarcity. While lead could be used as a means of currency (disregarding toxicity) because of its similar atomic weight (and hence rarity) to gold, it is difficult to extract lead in its pure form (relative to gold, in ancestral times this discrepancy in difficulty was obviously augmented due to technological bottlenecking). Gold occurs commonly in its natural elemental (pure) state. Even without any tools to empirically test the purity of substances, it is readily apparent to any miner of gold and lead that lead is almost always mixed in with other substances while gold is not. If you look into it, lead is rarely found in its pure form. It’s mostly found in ores, this is not the case with gold. The key take away here is that pure gold can be harvested fairly readily using primitive means of extraction and no purification is required. If you’re going to base a currency off an element and have no way of testing purity, logically you’d choose a substance that occurs more readily in its pure form in nature. Otherwise, the whole integrity of the currency is called into question because of discrepancies in purity from one bar of copper to the next (or whatever standardized form of it you choose to create, coins of certain dimensions etc). The quantity of copper that is mined is about 3 orders of magnitude greater than that of gold. If you considered just naturally occurring pure copper, not in ores or sulfur compounds etc, then based on the lower bound of estimates of the occurrence of native copper in nature (difficult to determine an exact figure but between .01% to 1%), at best pure copper would be about 10 times more rare than gold. My math could be off, feel free to correct me. But, after smelting was discovered, all that became irrelevant. It doesn’t matter if naturally pure mineable elemental copper is rarer than naturally pure mineable elemental gold. This is a logical conclusion from the following considerations. Even in the modern day purification of copper is a fairly arduous and expensive process compared to extracting gold yes, but this discrepancy in cost of extraction between the two elements (and hence the additional value attributed to copper based upon the costs of producing it) is nowhere near great enough to make it more valuable than gold. The discrepancy in atomic weight (and hence rarity and implied value) is too great for this contribution to be appreciable. There’s simply far more matter than contains copper than there is matter that contains gold, and the prevalence of pure forms in nature is fairly inconsequential if purification techniques are available. The smelting you mentioned for copper and tin that is required to isolate their pure forms demonstrates that immediately following their extraction, they are usually impure. Other than measuring the density of the substance (after archimedes) there was no reliable methods to determine the purity of a substance. How can you reliably use a substance as a form of global currency if it’s not fungible? The difficulty of purifying tin and copper from extracted matter has nothing to do with their scarcity. It’d be trivial for any advanced society to have an army of forced laborers smelting away. If you isolated all the pure copper, tin, and gold from all matter on earth, there’d be far less gold. As a coarse analogy, it took more work to build a cathedral than it did to paint the mona lisa. But cathedrals aren’t more rare. They just require more effort. Also, gold has some novel qualities which can be used in a pinch to determine authenticity (malleability). Ofc this is only relevant prior to the modern era. I recommend two google searches. “How much gold is there in the entire earth” and “How much copper is there in the entire earth”. The prevalence of copper compared to gold remains the same even if you only consider readily mineable sources of the elements, or even just global stockpiles of the respective elements. Again, it follows from the above that prevalence of pure forms is irrelevant. Yes, platinum is rarer than gold, and sure it could be used as a global currency in theory. Why it’s not used a currency backer or why it’s less expensive in financial markets is a more complicated question than the copper vs gold debate. Much of the world’s platinum is concentrated in certain regions. From my perspective, it wouldn’t be in the interest of world leaders to adopt a form of global currency that might not even be readily available on their own continent. Gold’s found on every continent. Platinum is mostly from south africa. There’s a ton of elements that are more rare than gold. However gold has that sweet spot of being just rare enough to have strong scarcity based value, but not so rare that it loses liquidity in a global marketplace. Yes, the value of gold is indeed augmented by subjective perceptions of aesthetics and historical value, but to say it has no value other than being pretty is a big reach. Throughout the above, I may use the terms currency and currency backer interchangeably. Obviously they’re different. Should be clear from context which i’m referring to. I’ve just regained my virginity for this comment, i hope you appreciate my sacrifice.
@@user-sc5gr8zr3q cool explanation, you just flaunted your vocabulary to say it’s shiny. You didn’t at all touch on what value it had in preindustrial civilization beyond it doesn’t oxidize. Why was it valuable for millennia? Throughout millennia of civilization, it had no practical use beyond decoration. Because a prevailing culture valued it, other cultures adopted the same concept to get what they wanted. Ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, Persia, medieval, renaissance….what was it used for??? You’re only reinforcing my point that scarcity, real or imagined, dictates the price. Why isn’t platinum more expensive, especially since it’s so important to saving the planet. Ty for the Wikipedia copy paste tho. You spent a great deal to agree with me. Much of the value of gold is a social construct handed down over centuries.
I got a pencil that's worth $4 million. Only catch is that now I have to find someone willing to pay that price for it.... oddly enough I think jewelers have the same issue as well.... Weird how one is taken seriously, and the other is just a smartass making a comment on a youtube video. For real Though. If you're interested hit me up. It's currently the most expensive pencil on the planet, and it could easily be yours(hell, I might even knock a few bucks off if I like you enough!)
@@nignamedmutt7270sorry bud, my pencil valuer just left, he's valued my mint condition Windsor and newton 5F with the rare obverse translocation misprint at £4.1m, as soon as my "independent" grading company slaps a hardcase on it I expect that number to increase
When I was 7 years old living in CA, a lady dived for $5.00 to get a pearl for me. I gave the Pearl to my grandmother, who's name was also Pearl. She died back in 2006. What I didn't know is that I am now 55 and this past August 17th 2023 my mother died. I was left some stuff and one thing is she had the pearl I gave my grandmother all those years ago. I got it back over 45 years later. Its a blue pearl, more valuable to me than anything.
You should get it set in some jewelry so you always have it, and can maybe pass it down someday 💜 Idk if you have anyone’s ashes.. but there’s services now that can turn them into diamonds or other gems. Imagine what a special ring *that* would be 🥹
A guy I dated once gifted me a pair of pearl earrings from Tahiti. The pearls are so beautiful. I'm not big on jewelry usually, but these I really treasure.
No. I love keshi too. They are more fun to work with than boring old round pearls which feel like grandma's string. Dont get me all pearls are good, but all keshi have a unique personality than generic roundies don't
Very true. It really kills me the diamonds which are really quite plentiful bring so much money and how one company controls the market so thoroughly. What a racket. if you’re lucky enough to get to buy direct from De Beers and you don’t want to purchase what they provide for you, you are SOL that’s it for you no diamonds for you. And the advertising making you feel obligated to buy her diamonds.
Well… that’s what money is all about. The moment something is “rare” it can become a currency, like nfts for example, or art. If there’s someone who is willing to trade what they have for the thing you have, as long as both items are of a similar rarity or one in a much higher amount than the other, a trade is valuable
We value things of the earth because that's all we have. Concrete is just mixed up minerals that we make our buildings out of, even plastic in factories is essentially the same as a bee making a hive and honey. We contort it and change it but it's all earth, and in the early 1900s we didn't even have complex variations usually just straight up wood or refined metal. So they valued exotic stones and such. Nothing you and I value is any less of the earth, it's all animal byproducts because we are animals. Humans just being animals. Artificial and natural has us very confused on what we are and the fact that anything we've made so far has been limited to and only.made up.of the elements of earth. You can refine and heat up and blend together and cause chemical reactions to something all you want but it's still just like a bee pushing out honey from flowers.
hope there’s some sort of commission on retrieving these pearls. would suck to be the guy bringing up a $10,000 pearl with a return of $17 for the entire hour lol
Another factor that makes pearls expensive is the yield. Not all harvested oysters that get artificially seeded and put back survive the process. They also need constant attention during the growing phase in order to survive, which is time and labor-intensive.
@@praetor4118The reason they're expensive is the same as diamond. Rich idiots buy the most expensive things for status and bragging rights. Normally I don't have a problem with people stealing from the rich, but when it inflates prices for regular people too it's annoying.
@@StormTheSquidI feel like pearls price is more fair than diamonds as diamond prices are artificially high due to artificially scarcity while a pearl is kind of a bitch to get comparatively
I remember reading a short story in a literature class about a pearl that was mostly perfect and worth a lot of money, but had to be shaved down to be worth a lot more, and it was so suspenseful reading it, and I don't really even know why. It was just well-written.
@@drewfu2671 One of the best books out there, probably the best from Verne It does have some 3 pages long parts talking about sardines, but the story is worth it Fun fact, that's where the name "Nemo" came from
I collect antique jewelry….. I wish I had a way to know pear value without paying someone because farmed vs natural pearl I cant figure out I have a strand of pearls that had diamonds and sapphires in the clasp that I think might be natural they dont look like my other cultured pearls they are quite lusterous and Very round the sizes are nearly perfectly the same but if you look hard you see slight size or shape difference
@@InfiniteDarkMass google "pearl cut in half." in images there's cultured, natural, and rejected ones. very interesting. your comment got me to look it up
So cool seeing the Tahitian keshi.. in the Philippines we have golden keshi especially from Jewelmer pearl farms in Palawan, they are like little liquid golden rocks. Just like yours the pearls too are beautiful, just different golden color
Say this again after you've tried living in the middle of the ocean, diving for the oysters and have the eqiupments needed to sell and harvest the pearls
Good quality pearls have always been valuable. Especially when they were not cultured. It is easier to produce same exact pearls when you are artificially germinating them, however when high quality pearls of same color and shape are found by collectors and somehow land in the hands of a jeweler in a large number that they can be assembled into a necklace or other jewelry, then you have something fit for a queen.
My stepdad got my mom a set of Tahitian pearl necklace & bracelet as an anniversary gift… it is her most prized possession. Like they have their own mahogany wood case. If the house burns down. I’m suppose to take the pearls and leave the passports since those can be replaced 😂 which I get because those pearls are literally the amount of a house down payment.
disgusting. If the house burns down don't stop for the pearls. Save yourself and let these disgusting rich people burn down along with their prized possessions.@@cocochocookiedough
Here in Philippines we produce the south sea pearl aka gold color pearl from palawan area,we have other colors too but the golden ones are the most expensive.
@@evilsharkey8954 the species that produces a golden south sea pearl is the Pinctada maxima. They are normally white or silver lipped, and the recessive gene is the gold-lipped oyster that produces the gold pearls.
The funny thing is that these pearls are really only worth what someone is willing to pay, so the valuation can be as arbitrary as you want. I would argue that an oblong pearl in the shape of a heart with rainbow discoloration could be more valuable than a single colored sphere, simply because someone would pay more to be the only one who has it.
@@GregMoress And also "adopting" an animal at the zoo. You're not actually getting anything out of it, it's a donation by a different name, but just the idea you're getting something tangible in return (even if that's a little paper you can show off to your social circle) still influences people to do it
The oyster itself will sustain life for you. Instead sellers value the pearl within that doesn’t. People really want to be sold something. But they won’t buy into God who’s absolutely free. Wisdom comes with age. During our youth, we haven’t a clue as to what’s really valuable. It’s all associated with material wealth and perceived value. I’m older now and have lived in the light of life for quite some time now. I’m vibrant and healthy and set free from the illusion of SELF. My quest and thirst of me me me was quenched a long time ago. My friends and associates still dye their hair and adorn themselves in the faux realities of a proposed/supposed happy life though a visual material existence. This illusion/delusion is the dichotomous choice made by people themselves. They are like lambs being led to the slaughter. 🤔 Hmmm, that sounds familiar? Godspeed!
Some people look particularly great wearing irregular shapes as they can pull off the relaxed look without looking untidy. I tend to have an easier time wearing more symmetrical shapes, so I just rarely do pearls lol :)
Isn't that life in general? There are pokemon cards that are selling for thousands, millions of dollars and people pay 10x the price for name brand clothes, ect. Not to mention common folk spending $10,000+ on diamond wedding rings when they could get a nice ring for $50
I think diamonds are a girl's best friend and diamonds are forever and the marketing of them as engagement, wedding and commemoration of special events ran off with that trophy like the road runner beep beep😂
@@vincenzomusella5363 we can't all experience the kind of satisfaction you get from having shiny pebbles. We use stupid, un-fulfilling things like family and friends to fill that pearl shaped hole in our lives...
It's valued at 10k because people actively pay that much for pearls of equal grade. That specific pearl may not have been sold yet, but notice dude said "one of the best pearls we've ever harvested", implying it wasn't even the best pearl they've harvested, just among the best.
@@PhReAk58 You still need a buyer, and not everyone is willing to spend 10K on a single pearl that was farmed, you can say "oh, we farm it in the Ocean so it's more dangerous", that's you bud, I could put a pond in the middle of a tiger pit with pearl-producing oysters and claim the same then sell my $1 keshi pearls for $1,000 because: "oh, it's dangerous work! We farm them in the middle of a tiger pit!".
I was never into pearls, and then all of a sudden I fell in love with a pearl ring. Now it’s my favorite piece of jewelry. It’s so flattering to the skin.
It should also be noted that 66%+ of oyster harvesters *euthanize* or let their --clams-- oysters (whoops!) die during the process, so the fact these guys are doing *such* a laborious process is amazing. It seems pretty clear they care about their animals and their comfort 😊 _("Comfort" may be a strong word since bivalves don't have a central nervous system, so they can't really process pain the same way we, and many other animals, do.)_
@@darellmanatrajagukguk5621 Bruh, I'm _ambivalent_ about it. I *eat* oysters. Merely pointing out that it takes a lot of work to do what they're doing isn't crying about it, you absolute dustball 😑
I think pearls are some of the most beautiful items of decorative jewelry out there. I would feel so fortunate if I was able to have a necklace of my own and I would love the $1 ones as much as the $10,000 ones they are all equally beautiful to me. I love gems, rocks, and stones too but there's something very unique and calming about a pearl.
While I don't personally find pearls all that interesting, I'm glad to hear about others out there who are interested in gems and minerals ^^. My personal favorite is probably either Tanzanite or Amethyst.
@@oblivi8games808 I find myself drawn to all natural materials really. Gems, rocks, crystals, stones and so on. There something about them that I really can't get enough of.
@@bewilderedbytheonlinecommunity Jokes on you, I like dated stuff. I will avoid a trend until 10+ years later when I suddenly love it. As of right now my tastes involve the 1950-60's.
@@randomstreynjah9705 jokes are funny. yours was not, you just made yourself look like you had bad vision. you’ll understand our reaction. Also, it’s 2023, let’s not evade a real conversation and justify every little thing by saying “it was just a joke bro”
it's not inflated, the demand is high and there are no others with the same quality. a better take would be that one can simply take a less perfect one and trade its appearance for perfect symmetry by sanding them down.
my mom was eating fried oysters in savanah ga once time i was like 10 and she broke a tooth on a pearl they had missed before they fried it she kept the pearl and sued the restaurant lol
In Tahiti, free divers often take the wild black pearls and put them in their mouths until they come to the surface. It's not uncommon to see teeth marks on them :)
@@escapetherace1943A bag with a rubber opening would be better. The mesh bag could get turned upside down and empty its contents and/or take too long to get the pearl into. They’re doing this on one breath, so not a lot of time to futz around.
Imagine if aliens traded our kidney stones as high commodity jewelry.
You may have just debunked the probe.
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How much to buy? 😂
Don’t give them any ideas- I’m not looking to live that way 😭
Thanks for the ideas, I'll take it back to the mothership to discuss the matter.
A lot of people generally think there are just white pearls. The colors of the pearls depends upon their environment, the colors of the sand, the Flora and Fauna, the water itself...it all affects the colors and quality of the outcome of the pearls.
Which means somewhere there is one of the most unique pearls, relative to you. A personal pearl that can only be truly appreciated by your eye.
If I give a clam green sand would it make a green pearl?
Thats completely false lmao, the different colors come from different mollusks. The quality of the pearl will effect shade and defects, but the sand color has absolutely nothing to do with it, and seeded pearls aren't made with sand.
@@tooterfireball4018that’s an awesome way to look at it, like everyone would love a perfect pearl but I’m sure there must be a pearl perfect or imperfect that will be more appealing to you that anyone else
My penis shows the same thing but you don't give me 10k, even when it's beating you over the head as a mushroom stamp.
pearls are so weird when you think about them. they're basically oyster hairballs and we put them on our bodies
And whale hairballs for fancy perfume lol
@@toastercatxbackward hairballs because of what orifice it left from.
And insect byproducts are highly sought after for linens and dresses
Diamonds are rocks...people are losers
@@Adrian-Trivani it can come out of either orifice. And sometimes a dead sperm whale washes up, killed by giant clumps of ambergris stuck in their intestines. Which is very nice for the people cutting open the carcass, but less nice for the whale.
Pawn shop owner looking at the 10,000 dollar pearl: best I can do is 5 bucks.
😆 I remember that struggle.
Velmi artret
@@tardigrademicro do you have any relics on you?
@@TotallyNotADolphinIRL I have a gum wrapper and a handful of pencil shavings
😂
“What’s your favorite gun round?”
“9mm B Grade pearls”
“$10,000 a bullet 😎”
@@WidgyAinz**meet the team intro plays**
@@bullet_outsmarter_5000I am the Heavy Weapons Guy... and this... is my weapon.
@@concerningindividual629She weighs one hundred fifty kilograms and fires two hundred dollar, custom-tooled cartridges at ten thousand rounds per minute.
@@jaysonvancouofficial6100 it cost $400000 dollars to fire this weapon for 12 seconds
Accidentally loads my $1 million pearl into my BB gun
did your bb guy make a ka-ching noise?
Battle pass level 100 BB skin
The BB size one is only worth a dollar
@@geirkselim2697 you realize that there are .50cal BB and pellet guns now right 😂 you can literally get almost any caliber bb gun now ... 38/357/9mm, .45 .50 ....
Come on shoot me
“Ahh god thanks for getting that impurity out of me it was such a pain-“
*inserts another one*
They don't feel pain tho
It's funny and all, but y'all need to remember, that oysters have no brain(or at least not something that can produce any actual thinking) and are practically just a mass of cells doing their things.
And they are no better than a plant in terms of activity, so they probably don't have any pain sense, as pain is usually found in organisms able to learn and adapt.
So yeah, they pretty much can't really feel anything.
@@anastasiaalimova5452Why wouldn't they?
@@anastasiaalimova5452That's what they want you to think. Real Doctors used to do surgery on infants with no anesthetic because they didn't think babies could feel pain either.
@@anastasiaalimova5452Of course they feel pain, why wouldn't they??
imagine wearing a $10 000 pearl around your neck without anyone being able to tell the difference to a $1 pearl.
Same thing for jewelry in general.
'Wealth is quiet, rich is loud'
I want keshi pearls. They look yummy.
IT’s a SICKNEEEESSSS
No, the difference between that tiny, dull, not round pearl and the large high luster, perfectly round is very obvious. One might not guess a $10,000 difference but it's obvious that one is far more valuable.
Fixes kidney
Gives a new one
So fucked up frfr
I know nothing about oysters, but I think I've heard that it's good for them to have something in there instead of nothing
bullshit its essential a protection mechanism like forming a cystic cavity
@@dasamont8274
@@dasamont8274 kinda? Making pearls is their self defence mechanism. When an oysters accidentally inhaled some debris that is larger than a sand grain it got trapped inside of them. The closest thing I could compare it to is humans having kidney stones but it's not really like that.
@@dasamont8274meh I feel like it’s equivalent to a tumor 😂 harmless until it gets a bit too big and starts screwing up the shell
"No imperfections..."
*STARES AT THE LITTLE BLACK BUMP*
Thanks, I wasn't the only one that saw that
I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE THANK FUCK
You can have an even more perfect one made in a silicone mold with recirculating water with the right chemicals in a tenth of the time, and you would need a microscope to tell the difference in origin between a natural and artificial one.
Man, I could’ve gone on believing it was perfect. But you pointed it out and I went back and I noticed it and now it annoys me too… thanks though
@blumoogle2901 cool and what do jewlers do to che k authenticity? 🤔
"It has a complex and vibrant colour"
The pearl: ⚫️
true. i could see a slight oil spill effect but still
Lol the camera probably doesn't show it's true glory, but I would not pay that much for a shiny bead.
Lmao just admit you’re colorblind. It’s dark but it’s got undertones.
@@mochalotte4702sure, its gray if thats what you mean lmaooo
@@mochalotte4702 When I think vibrant, undertones of grey is not my first thought.
"Ah ... The Black Pearl."
- Captain Jack Sparrow -
Underrated comment 😂
Imagine your whole life is being a biological jewelry maker for a colossal titan 💀
Honestly, probably comparable to my current life as a Kroger cashier.
If only there was a colossal titan that liked partially digested corn
@@Excalibur2A coprophiliac?
now I just have to find a rich one @@Diskaria
Imagine not even being alive
I read about a lady who found a pearl in her food when dining out with her boyfriend. She ordered mussels and thought that one of her teeth must’ve fallen out when she bit the pearl, but it was a good sized and nicely shaped pearl! She kept it and commissioned a jeweller to set it in her engagement ring later :)
That's actually a really nice side story, l bet the ring becomes a family heirloom or should I say l hope it does! Thank you for sharing 🙏💐
LIES, 🫵😤YOU TELL LIES!!
@@zoogeographic396 Do interesting things not happen to other people? Mussels can produce pears just fine so this story isn't completely unrealistic.
@@CapitalLuke You believe LIES🫵🤡, LIES I SAY😤!!
@@Computer4869 Another lost soul FOOLED by the LIES, so much that you’re willing to defend them 😡. HOW PATHETIC 🫵🤡😤!!!
“Complex and vibrant color”
Tainted Shikon Jewel:
Yeah, doesn't he know it's supposed to be pink?
ahem, im clam and i agree. i made that pearl and he's trying to rip people off. thank you for your time. unfortunately my people don't have a flag in the emojis yet but i've contacted the emoji clan at Apple and and Samsung to get the Glam Clam (the name of our flag) in the emoji line up. 🦪 (i know that's an oyster but that's all i got)
THATS WHAT I WAS THINKING
OMG THE FANDOMS STILL ALIVE-
Kagohmei inubasha the final axe
"what makes this pearl so expensive..." is the fact that there are idiots willing to pay that absurd price.
Right cause where did $10,000 even come from? 😭 where did that specific price tag come from?
Best comment I've seen yet!
I could agree when it comes to fashion, but when it comes to things like pearls, the scarcity of good pearls cannot be manufactured. The nuclei used in making pearls has to be perfectly spherical cause any imperfections will show up very clearly on the finished pearl, moreover, as explained they farm these oysters in open water. It's hard work and they deserve every dollar they get. I've met a few of these fishermen in Indonesia. Tough, hardworking guys that hang the nests in the ocean and usually a lady or two to insert the nuclei. Personally I don't like the one featured here as it lacks any iridescence like some of the other ones. The nuclei have gotten bigger as the smaller they are the more their imperfections are magnified for a given diameter pearl. However, this also means that pearls are getting bigger for a much lower price.
You've just described luxury goods in general. The richest man in the world sells useless shit to people 😂
@@varun009 cool
Still completely pointless and artificially inflated
the pearls have good music taste
Pls
What do you mean?
@@G0ddessKellykeshi is a music artist
LMFAOOOOOOOOOO
They listen to Pearl Jam, of course.
I actually really like those B grades. I don’t see anyone talking about them, but that dark gray color with the semi gloss luster looks so nice to me..
I agree mate, in my opinion better than the 10k one.
Hard same. And honestly? I really like the keshi. Like... Maybe I'm weird but i love the silvery Lustre and the unique shapes.
I agree. Pearl jewelry is my favorite kind. The unique shapes of the Keshi are what make those pearls beautiful.
They are gorgeous to me too
I actually once had an irregular shaped white pearl and I love it so much. Perfectly round pearls are being immitated and even though genuine, they sometimes look fake unless you know the diff between fake and real pearls at first glance.
I've been long enough in this business but never heard fake pearl. Do you mean culture (fresh water) pearls!
@@hadiya2179i think he means plastic pearls
@@duckpotat9818 as you said, that's plastic. Not a pearl. 😊
@@hadiya2179 I believe he meant people who reshape pearls into a perfect orb using sanding and polishing
@@duckpotat9818they can also use types of glass and porcelain
“With no imperfections”
*has imperfections*
Yeah, right?????? 😂
For $10,000 I was expecting significantly more lustre..
Everything is so expensive for no reason
@@nonmilavodashe just said the reason. It is very rare and hard to find. And the demant is willing to pay that much to have it.
Right? Looking at it now. I couldn't tell it apart from some metal ball. Honstly I'd rather have some fake colorful stone or glass to put on some jewelry
@@nonmilavodacapitalism a machine could make one identical easy but because of rampant consumerism it gets its price jacked all the way up just like diamonds
@@saturnzrose Because you're looking at it from the perspective of wanting something that looks nice. Someone else looks at it from the perspective of its history.
Limited edition things, old or retro stuff, they all get expensive based on the history and lack of items available.
As beautiful as the high-grade pearls are, I still really enjoy the irregularity and imperfections in lower-grade or freshwater pearls. They can still make some beautiful and elegant pieces, but also lend an interesting naturalistic, textural look.
Agreed! I really like the keshi!
I agree also. I have not seen them in real life but they look lovely in this video.
I think older pearls, ones that aren’t seeded, are significantly cooler, honestly.
Perfectly spherical pearl shape is common and uniformed. The shape of a Keshi is completely unique, making it easily identifiable for the owner.
@@PhantomFilmAustraliaBut easier to get
i honestly love the misshapen pearls. they have so much character and would look like beautiful organized chaos if made into jewelry together with each other
I made my mother a necklace of misshapen pearls I bought at an auction. They came with a hole drilled in them so I could string them. The looked lovely when bunched up together on a string. I asked a jeweler what kind of string to use for pearls, but I don't remember now what he said. If you buy some, a jeweler can string them for you.
like a pooka shell necklace, except with keshi pearls. at a dollar a piece i absolutely wouldn't care about drilling a hole through a bunch of them.
They creep me out remind me of tonsil stones 😭
cool idea
I like artificial pearls. Perfectly round, any size you want, basically identical to natural pearls except under a microscope with niche technical knowledge, far cheaper. No-one looking at a moderately high quality artificial pearl necklace is going to know the difference at normal personal space viewing distance. If its made inside a creature or a silicone mold with tubes circulating water full of the same chemicals at higher concentrations, it's a pearl and only the very rich will care about the difference.
The expensive one is beautiful, but I actually like all of them....even the $1 pearl. ❤
I bought an oyster at a touristy place in Hawaii for a dollar, my oyster had a beautiful big blue pearl, the seller tried desperately to get me to chose a different oyster, because my pearl wasn't white, I laughed and said I'm happy with what I got, he said he's never seen anything like this happen before.
I feel lucky.
Did you keep the pearl ?
You are lucky. I would prefer the blue one
Or he hustled you into thinking it was unique. Touristy sellers like that do that kind of thing in hopes of using your excitement to draw in more potential customers from anyone that may have been within eye/earshot.
If it WAS unique, then good on ya! But, knowing how these folks operate makes be believe it's the former, and not the latter.
@@ozaru90it was a dollar and they already paid anyway. Don’t matter.
You are, that's definitely a keeper.
Honestly I think those faulty pearls are really cool looking. I’d love to use them in crafting or something.
They’re pretty common in less expensive jewelry. The pink, freshwater variety is pretty cheap.
You can literally find some at hobby lobby in the crafts isle
@@eden20111 Oh I’ll have to look next time I’m in the area!
@@eden20111cool. I used to think all pearls were costly even the farmed ones.
Me too..I like the irregular shapes..I've also bought some on ebay to make earrings with & they're pretty cheap!!
I personally love keshi pearls, I find their irregular shape very appealing :)
That's a good way of putting "im broke and can't afford a round Pearl" 😂 I'm right there with you homie
@@JuarezDerrick uuhh, no. Just as I dislike gold. It's a matter of preference.
@@JuarezDerrick
I like silver far more than I like gold.
So more expensive does not make something better looking for some people.
It is up to taste.
@@JuarezDerrickI want copper rather than gold or silver. Much prettier.
I think you'd like me when i'm constipated, i do exact irregular shapes... Pearls.
"This pearl has no issues or bumps or tarnishing....."
"Let's charge people $10,000 dollars for it"
As long as you have a demand.
As with everything, historically gold had no real purpose other than being shiny
@@Menuki its purpose is based upon its scarcity. you can’t print gold.
@@user-sc5gr8zr3q there’s less naturally occurring copper than there is naturally occurring is gold
Diamonds are neither scarce or rare
Prior to electronics gold didn’t have a practical use, just decorative. Can you tell me what unique purpose it had in antiquity that lead did not?
It was shiny and stayed shiny….that about it. Copper and tin was actually harder to smelt. Gold was often found out in the open.
Platinum and other PGMs are rarer and much harder to refine, but the price doesn’t reflect that.
@@Menuki Well I didn’t think I’d be this guy, but i’ve seen similar remarks floating around and i feel as though it is incumbent upon me to comment. Anyone who has a better understanding of the subject, feel free to chime in. Here goes.
First, gold doesn’t oxidize. Since it doesn’t form oxides, it remains pure when you have it laying around. When oxides form, rust develops and flakes away. So if you leave copper, tin, and gold bars lying around, eventually the copper and tin bars will lose their weight as rust forms and flakes off. If you’re using it as a currency, you’d want it to remain relatively stable and uniform.
Next, gold is more rare than copper. In terms of all of the gold and copper on earth, by roughly two orders of magnitude. This is a consequence of copper having a lower atomic weight. Generally, the higher the atomic weight of an element, the rarer it is. This follows from the following. Most hydrogen and helium was formed from the primordial soup of subatomic particles following the big bang. Heavier elements are formed during stellar nucleosynthesis. The heavier the element is, the more energy is required to form it. Intuitively (and as a direct consequence of entropy) regions of higher energy are rarer than regions of lower energy. So heavier = rarer (this isn’t 100 percent correct, there are exceptions because nucleosynthetic theory is slightly more complicated than that. Has to do with stability during synthesis)
I didn’t mention diamonds (???), and i’m aware of their artificial scarcity.
While lead could be used as a means of currency (disregarding toxicity) because of its similar atomic weight (and hence rarity) to gold, it is difficult to extract lead in its pure form (relative to gold, in ancestral times this discrepancy in difficulty was obviously augmented due to technological bottlenecking).
Gold occurs commonly in its natural elemental (pure) state. Even without any tools to empirically test the purity of substances, it is readily apparent to any miner of gold and lead that lead is almost always mixed in with other substances while gold is not. If you look into it, lead is rarely found in its pure form. It’s mostly found in ores, this is not the case with gold. The key take away here is that pure gold can be harvested fairly readily using primitive means of extraction and no purification is required.
If you’re going to base a currency off an element and have no way of testing purity, logically you’d choose a substance that occurs more readily in its pure form in nature. Otherwise, the whole integrity of the currency is called into question because of discrepancies in purity from one bar of copper to the next (or whatever standardized form of it you choose to create, coins of certain dimensions etc).
The quantity of copper that is mined is about 3 orders of magnitude greater than that of gold. If you considered just naturally occurring pure copper, not in ores or sulfur compounds etc, then based on the lower bound of estimates of the occurrence of native copper in nature (difficult to determine an exact figure but between .01% to 1%), at best pure copper would be about 10 times more rare than gold. My math could be off, feel free to correct me.
But, after smelting was discovered, all that became irrelevant. It doesn’t matter if naturally pure mineable elemental copper is rarer than naturally pure mineable elemental gold. This is a logical conclusion from the following considerations.
Even in the modern day purification of copper is a fairly arduous and expensive process compared to extracting gold yes, but this discrepancy in cost of extraction between the two elements (and hence the additional value attributed to copper based upon the costs of producing it) is nowhere near great enough to make it more valuable than gold. The discrepancy in atomic weight (and hence rarity and implied value) is too great for this contribution to be appreciable. There’s simply far more matter than contains copper than there is matter that contains gold, and the prevalence of pure forms in nature is fairly inconsequential if purification techniques are available.
The smelting you mentioned for copper and tin that is required to isolate their pure forms demonstrates that immediately following their extraction, they are usually impure. Other than measuring the density of the substance (after archimedes) there was no reliable methods to determine the purity of a substance. How can you reliably use a substance as a form of global currency if it’s not fungible?
The difficulty of purifying tin and copper from extracted matter has nothing to do with their scarcity. It’d be trivial for any advanced society to have an army of forced laborers smelting away. If you isolated all the pure copper, tin, and gold from all matter on earth, there’d be far less gold.
As a coarse analogy, it took more work to build a cathedral than it did to paint the mona lisa. But cathedrals aren’t more rare. They just require more effort.
Also, gold has some novel qualities which can be used in a pinch to determine authenticity (malleability). Ofc this is only relevant prior to the modern era.
I recommend two google searches. “How much gold is there in the entire earth” and “How much copper is there in the entire earth”. The prevalence of copper compared to gold remains the same even if you only consider readily mineable sources of the elements, or even just global stockpiles of the respective elements. Again, it follows from the above that prevalence of pure forms is irrelevant.
Yes, platinum is rarer than gold, and sure it could be used as a global currency in theory. Why it’s not used a currency backer or why it’s less expensive in financial markets is a more complicated question than the copper vs gold debate. Much of the world’s platinum is concentrated in certain regions. From my perspective, it wouldn’t be in the interest of world leaders to adopt a form of global currency that might not even be readily available on their own continent. Gold’s found on every continent. Platinum is mostly from south africa.
There’s a ton of elements that are more rare than gold. However gold has that sweet spot of being just rare enough to have strong scarcity based value, but not so rare that it loses liquidity in a global marketplace. Yes, the value of gold is indeed augmented by subjective perceptions of aesthetics and historical value, but to say it has no value other than being pretty is a big reach.
Throughout the above, I may use the terms currency and currency backer interchangeably. Obviously they’re different. Should be clear from context which i’m referring to.
I’ve just regained my virginity for this comment, i hope you appreciate my sacrifice.
@@user-sc5gr8zr3q cool explanation, you just flaunted your vocabulary to say it’s shiny. You didn’t at all touch on what value it had in preindustrial civilization beyond it doesn’t oxidize. Why was it valuable for millennia? Throughout millennia of civilization, it had no practical use beyond decoration. Because a prevailing culture valued it, other cultures adopted the same concept to get what they wanted. Ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, Persia, medieval, renaissance….what was it used for???
You’re only reinforcing my point that scarcity, real or imagined, dictates the price. Why isn’t platinum more expensive, especially since it’s so important to saving the planet. Ty for the Wikipedia copy paste tho.
You spent a great deal to agree with me. Much of the value of gold is a social construct handed down over centuries.
"So what makes you think you can provide for my daughter?"
"I'm a doctor, oyster surgeon to be exact."
actually, the resale value of pearls is dismal as compared to other comparable things like precious gems, gold, silver, etc
....
@@GizziiusaYeah, thats why Jews don't deal in Pearls lol
*Sturgeon
"Valued at 10,000" by the same person who isn't buying it. I love the jewelery industry
It's all about exclusivity... but you also have the choice to exclude expensive purchases like $10,000 pearls
Look at the imperfections he claims that arent there. Too funny
"oh thats just uuh uuh dust on the uh"@@mugnuz
I got a pencil that's worth $4 million.
Only catch is that now I have to find someone willing to pay that price for it.... oddly enough I think jewelers have the same issue as well....
Weird how one is taken seriously, and the other is just a smartass making a comment on a youtube video.
For real Though. If you're interested hit me up. It's currently the most expensive pencil on the planet, and it could easily be yours(hell, I might even knock a few bucks off if I like you enough!)
@@nignamedmutt7270sorry bud, my pencil valuer just left, he's valued my mint condition Windsor and newton 5F with the rare obverse translocation misprint at £4.1m, as soon as my "independent" grading company slaps a hardcase on it I expect that number to increase
I love this youtube channel. They remove the pearls carefully without killing the thing like other videos do.
my thieving ass could NOT be a pearl harvester
ong 👺
This comment is extra funny imaging it without context
"How have you spent a week here and got no pearls?!?!"
nicoledeal2085: 💰😎💰
lmao
please do not insert it rectally
I found a natural pearl while sifting for shells once! It wasn't extraordinary or anything but a neat find nonetheless
The keshi look so pretty!!
My favorites!
When I was 7 years old living in CA, a lady dived for $5.00 to get a pearl for me. I gave the Pearl to my grandmother, who's name was also Pearl. She died back in 2006. What I didn't know is that I am now 55 and this past August 17th 2023 my mother died. I was left some stuff and one thing is she had the pearl I gave my grandmother all those years ago. I got it back over 45 years later. Its a blue pearl, more valuable to me than anything.
really emotional story, hope you doing ok
Such a sweet story. Know they are always with u❤
You should get it set in some jewelry so you always have it, and can maybe pass it down someday 💜
Idk if you have anyone’s ashes.. but there’s services now that can turn them into diamonds or other gems.
Imagine what a special ring *that* would be 🥹
that's a beautiful story ❤️ sending u love
What a heartwarming story 🦪 📿🤍
Yep! When my dad got married in Tahiti, he brought me a Tahitian black pearl necklace back. It is amazing.
A guy I dated once gifted me a pair of pearl earrings from Tahiti. The pearls are so beautiful. I'm not big on jewelry usually, but these I really treasure.
100L
I live in Tahiti too, it's very nice
I like the keshi!
Imagine the oysters leave the ocean and see the little grain of sand that was bothering them sell for hundreds to thousands of dollars
Only to have another one take it’s place immediately.
Imagine thinking an oyster would suddenly understand that concept because it left the ocean
@@trickybarstewardimagine not understanding a joke
@@Zlowkyget the sand out of your clam...
And they get no royalties
Paying 10k for a farmed operation opposed to natural is mind blowing.
Paying anything just because it's "wild" is mind blowing 😂
Is it weird i love the keshi more than the 10000 dollar pearl?
No honestly it has more character in my mind than just another perfect round sphere.
No. I love keshi too. They are more fun to work with than boring old round pearls which feel like grandma's string. Dont get me all pearls are good, but all keshi have a unique personality than generic roundies don't
Yes
I like full necklaces of them it gives a seashell kinda organic look.
Nag you're just cheap.
Humans value silly things.
Very true. It really kills me the diamonds which are really quite plentiful bring so much money and how one company controls the market so thoroughly. What a racket. if you’re lucky enough to get to buy direct from De Beers and you don’t want to purchase what they provide for you, you are SOL that’s it for you no diamonds for you. And the advertising making you feel obligated to buy her diamonds.
Well… that’s what money is all about. The moment something is “rare” it can become a currency, like nfts for example, or art. If there’s someone who is willing to trade what they have for the thing you have, as long as both items are of a similar rarity or one in a much higher amount than the other, a trade is valuable
We value things of the earth because that's all we have. Concrete is just mixed up minerals that we make our buildings out of, even plastic in factories is essentially the same as a bee making a hive and honey. We contort it and change it but it's all earth, and in the early 1900s we didn't even have complex variations usually just straight up wood or refined metal. So they valued exotic stones and such.
Nothing you and I value is any less of the earth, it's all animal byproducts because we are animals. Humans just being animals.
Artificial and natural has us very confused on what we are and the fact that anything we've made so far has been limited to and only.made up.of the elements of earth. You can refine and heat up and blend together and cause chemical reactions to something all you want but it's still just like a bee pushing out honey from flowers.
I'm not saying you're wrong but the way you phrased it made me think of an alien just trying to learn about humanity online
Yes.
This pearl is called Keshi
The pearl: “You’re the only one that understaaaAaaAaand OooOooh”
You ok man? 🤯
@@wessley4606he ment Keshi, the singer
Bro😭
*you’re
@@NillerMann 😭😭😭 oh come on
He definitely didn't tell how to spot difference 💀
hope there’s some sort of commission on retrieving these pearls. would suck to be the guy bringing up a $10,000 pearl with a return of $17 for the entire hour lol
And no one talks about poor oysters?
@@hardshell9236yeah especially the ones forced to hold 50 cultured pearls!
@@hardshell9236 This. Humans just exploit animals. Farms, sometimes pets, wildlife. Humans are cruel.
Like someone who works at enterpirse😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂I am 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Why else is nearly nothing made in the US. Us greedy Americans demand fair wages and safe working environments. God we're so whiny.
Another factor that makes pearls expensive is the yield. Not all harvested oysters that get artificially seeded and put back survive the process. They also need constant attention during the growing phase in order to survive, which is time and labor-intensive.
Only thing that makes them expensive is the rich dummies buying them .
@@maitreyoda7404 "The reason this item is expensive is because there is a demand for it"
Holy shit you cracked the code
@@praetor4118The reason they're expensive is the same as diamond. Rich idiots buy the most expensive things for status and bragging rights. Normally I don't have a problem with people stealing from the rich, but when it inflates prices for regular people too it's annoying.
@@praetor4118 Yeah… They’re still dumb as fuck .
@@StormTheSquidI feel like pearls price is more fair than diamonds as diamond prices are artificially high due to artificially scarcity while a pearl is kind of a bitch to get comparatively
I remember reading a short story in a literature class about a pearl that was mostly perfect and worth a lot of money, but had to be shaved down to be worth a lot more, and it was so suspenseful reading it, and I don't really even know why. It was just well-written.
Twenty thousand Leagues under the sea, I still remember that part of the book
@@Dervitoxgood read? I know it's a classic but just wondering your opinion
@@drewfu2671 One of the best books out there, probably the best from Verne
It does have some 3 pages long parts talking about sardines, but the story is worth it
Fun fact, that's where the name "Nemo" came from
I believe I read a book like that as well for school but it was maybe titled “ The Pearl” . Don’t quite me in the name though.
@@ShessoMaruStlkrThe Pearl is about a guy who finds a huge expensive pearl but then has all this bad luck and ends up throwing it back into the ocean
If you mixed that $10,000 pearl in with the other ones, you’d lose it.
“Perfect lustre, with no imperfections…”
*literally zooms in on an imperfection on the right hand side of it* 💀
I just saw the imperfections on the left... Its too funny
"vibrant color"
**Shows the least colorful pearl of the set**
Literally trying to hide the imperfections in the bottom 😂
Nope that is the reflection of the phone
I collect antique jewelry….. I wish I had a way to know pear value without paying someone because farmed vs natural pearl I cant figure out I have a strand of pearls that had diamonds and sapphires in the clasp that I think might be natural they dont look like my other cultured pearls they are quite lusterous and Very round the sizes are nearly perfectly the same but if you look hard you see slight size or shape difference
I love organic-shaped fresh water pearls the most! The round ones just look cheap to me now, weirdly
Well, because it's mostly the artificial ball as the base. I wish we could crack one open to see how thick the actual pearl layer is.
That's because it looks like an industrially constructed ball bearing you can buy for cheap.
Just say you can’t afford the round ones
@@InfiniteDarkMass google "pearl cut in half." in images there's cultured, natural, and rejected ones. very interesting. your comment got me to look it up
@@naveenfrancis3467😂😂😂 the round ones are mostly plastic😂😂😂 just tell me you dunno a bad investment when you see it
I love the off shape ones the most. Each is so unique
Good thing pearls are made artificially and can be made into any shape you want. Don't waste your money to this guys scam.
keshi omg 😭😭😭 I love the artist too
We basically take the oyster equivalent of tonsil stones and use them as decoration and jewelry
So cool seeing the Tahitian keshi.. in the Philippines we have golden keshi especially from Jewelmer pearl farms in Palawan, they are like little liquid golden rocks. Just like yours the pearls too are beautiful, just different golden color
That 10k pearl is actually really beautiful, I’ve never been struck like that before
You can't be serious.....
Imagine having a bunch of humans come shove sand down your throat and then pull it out once it's a stone 🥵
Ayo 😨😨😨
Hahahaha "throat"... more like gonads...
Literally
Actually it's traditionally a muscle shell, not sand with cultured pearls.
Well, at least it's not their ass
Pearls are another market that is ridiculously overinflated...
Wrong 😂
Say this again after you've tried living in the middle of the ocean, diving for the oysters and have the eqiupments needed to sell and harvest the pearls
Good quality pearls have always been valuable. Especially when they were not cultured. It is easier to produce same exact pearls when you are artificially germinating them, however when high quality pearls of same color and shape are found by collectors and somehow land in the hands of a jeweler in a large number that they can be assembled into a necklace or other jewelry, then you have something fit for a queen.
@@dan_ta_lionExcept... There's zero use for it
@@dan_ta_lionpathetic human hybris
Complex and vibrant colour
The pearl: 🗿
😂
why do the keshi pearls look like i could color them, put them into a box of nerds, and give them to an unsuspecting child on halloween
My stepdad got my mom a set of Tahitian pearl necklace & bracelet as an anniversary gift… it is her most prized possession. Like they have their own mahogany wood case. If the house burns down. I’m suppose to take the pearls and leave the passports since those can be replaced 😂 which I get because those pearls are literally the amount of a house down payment.
❤
disgusting. If the house burns down don't stop for the pearls. Save yourself and let these disgusting rich people burn down along with their prized possessions.@@cocochocookiedough
Priorities! LOL
what's the address? Just want to get a more vibrant imagination. Peace to you
My wife just inherited a black Tahitian pearl necklace it's a beautiful necklace
"No imperfections" *proceeds to ignore the craves on the pearl*
Here in Philippines we produce the south sea pearl aka gold color pearl from palawan area,we have other colors too but the golden ones are the most expensive.
I’ve never seen a golden pearl, only white, black, grey, and pink.
I intend to come back to the Philippines one day so will be on the lookout!
Ew stinky pearls
@@evilsharkey8954 the species that produces a golden south sea pearl is the Pinctada maxima. They are normally white or silver lipped, and the recessive gene is the gold-lipped oyster that produces the gold pearls.
Scavengers going wild with this one
That 10k pearl was flawless. It would also make an incredible paint job.
The funny thing is that these pearls are really only worth what someone is willing to pay, so the valuation can be as arbitrary as you want.
I would argue that an oblong pearl in the shape of a heart with rainbow discoloration could be more valuable than a single colored sphere, simply because someone would pay more to be the only one who has it.
@@GregMoress And also "adopting" an animal at the zoo. You're not actually getting anything out of it, it's a donation by a different name, but just the idea you're getting something tangible in return (even if that's a little paper you can show off to your social circle) still influences people to do it
It's a rock with no value or use to mankind. Not even science. It's a rock.
The oyster itself will sustain life for you. Instead sellers value the pearl within that doesn’t. People really want to be sold something. But they won’t buy into God who’s absolutely free. Wisdom comes with age. During our youth, we haven’t a clue as to what’s really valuable. It’s all associated with material wealth and perceived value. I’m older now and have lived in the light of life for quite some time now. I’m vibrant and healthy and set free from the illusion of SELF. My quest and thirst of me me me was quenched a long time ago. My friends and associates still dye their hair and adorn themselves in the faux realities of a proposed/supposed happy life though a visual material existence. This illusion/delusion is the dichotomous choice made by people themselves. They are like lambs being led to the slaughter. 🤔 Hmmm, that sounds familiar? Godspeed!
Yeah ok buddy
That goes for everything. All things are as valuable as someone is willing to pay for it
Keshi are my favorite kind of pearl, something about the one of a kind shape is so magical to me
I adore them too!! Way more than a perfect round pearl.💖
Totally agree. I’d rather have a string of keshi than a string of $10K pearls.
Some people look particularly great wearing irregular shapes as they can pull off the relaxed look without looking untidy. I tend to have an easier time wearing more symmetrical shapes, so I just rarely do pearls lol :)
They ugly asf bro go get a rock or smth 😂
"SEE! I TOLD YOU I HAD A PLAN AORTHUR"
HAVE YOU COMPLETELY LOST YOUR FAITH IN ME ARTHUR?????
"This pearl is worth $10,000"
Bro it's literally just a brown sphere tho 💀
I just want to see the person who's buying that $10k pearl
And slap him.
It's only worth what someone is willing to pay for it 💯
I would if I had the money ❤
@@SilverAspen1 Mentality of showing off ! 🙂
@@timbocf76💯🫡😅
What makes this pearl so expensive is that : there is a goof willing to pay 😂😂😂
Isn't that life in general? There are pokemon cards that are selling for thousands, millions of dollars and people pay 10x the price for name brand clothes, ect. Not to mention common folk spending $10,000+ on diamond wedding rings when they could get a nice ring for $50
@@steveharper879 😆
Pearls r rare and quality item. It enhances our beauty
@@Deepak_Dhakad lot of ppl abuse and destroy nature to make money. It’s all about the money 💰😀
@@Deepak_DhakadNo it doesn't. It just means you have too much money to spend, so you buy worthless overpriced dog shit you dont really need
Humans really do value the strangest things...
I love pearl- especially keshi ones. I just think they're neat.
Convincing someone to pay 10,000 dollars for a thing that came out of an oyster has to be the greatest sales move since the dawn of mankind.
I think diamonds are a girl's best friend and diamonds are forever and the marketing of them as engagement, wedding and commemoration of special events ran off with that trophy like the road runner beep beep😂
It's not worth $10,000 until someone actually pays $10,000 for it.
Exactly, notice they still have it and are the ones claiming it's 'valued at 10k' not purchased for 10k. No one else think's it's worth that much lol
cope harder 😂
@@vincenzomusella5363 we can't all experience the kind of satisfaction you get from having shiny pebbles. We use stupid, un-fulfilling things like family and friends to fill that pearl shaped hole in our lives...
It's valued at 10k because people actively pay that much for pearls of equal grade. That specific pearl may not have been sold yet, but notice dude said "one of the best pearls we've ever harvested", implying it wasn't even the best pearl they've harvested, just among the best.
@@PhReAk58 You still need a buyer, and not everyone is willing to spend 10K on a single pearl that was farmed, you can say "oh, we farm it in the Ocean so it's more dangerous", that's you bud, I could put a pond in the middle of a tiger pit with pearl-producing oysters and claim the same then sell my $1 keshi pearls for $1,000 because: "oh, it's dangerous work! We farm them in the middle of a tiger pit!".
I was never into pearls, and then all of a sudden I fell in love with a pearl ring. Now it’s my favorite piece of jewelry. It’s so flattering to the skin.
It should also be noted that 66%+ of oyster harvesters *euthanize* or let their --clams-- oysters (whoops!) die during the process, so the fact these guys are doing *such* a laborious process is amazing. It seems pretty clear they care about their animals and their comfort 😊
_("Comfort" may be a strong word since bivalves don't have a central nervous system, so they can't really process pain the same way we, and many other animals, do.)_
Cry about it
@@darellmanatrajagukguk5621 Bruh, I'm _ambivalent_ about it. I *eat* oysters. Merely pointing out that it takes a lot of work to do what they're doing isn't crying about it, you absolute dustball 😑
Didn’t realize Keshi was a pearl. Makes since as to why his music is so good
Ikr?????
KENSHI;
@@stacele9521Not Keshi;
@@nosajsamaniego4512bruh
@@nosajsamaniego4512there is an artist called Keshi though. I love his song "2 soon"
“Complex and vibrant colors”
Black with a little red tint, take it or leave it
That opening shot reminded me of the Facehugger autopsy in alien
The lumpy ones are my favorite, they seem more authentic and natural.
Me too. They seem more unique because you never see 2 that’s alike , similar but not alike.
Right? Knowing that a pearl is 80% plastic really threw me off.
@@tswan137Not all of them are. Almost all pearls since about the mid fifties have been. Antique pearl jewelry has a lot more personality.
That's interesting because in my opinion these ones or any that aren't perfectly round & beautiful should be destroyed.
@@roboticunclephil What a cool and unique opinion. Definitely worth saying.
“What makes this pearl so expensive is it’s size, shape, and quality”
“Hmm yes, this floor is made out of floor”
fail comment lol
Is the joke in the room with us
....what
Beneath this oyster we find a pearl. And beneath this pearl we find… his… nucleus
I could already tell just form looking that the 10k Pearl would be worth a hefty price bc it is simply gorgeous
I like the pale yellow pearls the most. They have a nostalgic seashell color to them.
apparently a shiny rock is worth more than my life
You must have ibsanely bad blood and organ values...
No. If you were to add up the market cost of all of your organs, it would be vastly higher than all of the pears in this video combined.
@@Fancyman-g9n ohhh does that count for everyone
Then I can just sell them organs and be rich right?
Someone needs to give that oyster a raise.
How about some lemon juice and Tabasco?
It's a pearl. I mean... it really is just a pearl. How we value one thing over another is pure madness.
I think pearls are some of the most beautiful items of decorative jewelry out there. I would feel so fortunate if I was able to have a necklace of my own and I would love the $1 ones as much as the $10,000 ones they are all equally beautiful to me.
I love gems, rocks, and stones too but there's something very unique and calming about a pearl.
Go back to the early 1900s and grab one of of every middle class lady... they look very dated which makes their value 0 in my perspective
@@bewilderedbytheonlinecommunity lol well u have the right to feel that way. I just think they have a very classy simple look and I like them.
While I don't personally find pearls all that interesting, I'm glad to hear about others out there who are interested in gems and minerals ^^. My personal favorite is probably either Tanzanite or Amethyst.
@@oblivi8games808 I find myself drawn to all natural materials really. Gems, rocks, crystals, stones and so on. There something about them that I really can't get enough of.
@@bewilderedbytheonlinecommunity Jokes on you, I like dated stuff. I will avoid a trend until 10+ years later when I suddenly love it. As of right now my tastes involve the 1950-60's.
"Complex and vibrant color"
Said color: black
It's just the lighting (the guy is looming over it and casting a shadow) if you hold it up to the light you can see a kind of holographic(?) effect
@@wolfgangchen7287 congrats for explaining a joke
@@randomstreynjah9705what joke?
@@randomstreynjah9705jokes are supposed to be clever and funny. Yours was neither.
@@randomstreynjah9705 jokes are funny. yours was not, you just made yourself look like you had bad vision. you’ll understand our reaction. Also, it’s 2023, let’s not evade a real conversation and justify every little thing by saying “it was just a joke bro”
I love how hyper inflated the prices are for what is essentially a small sphere shaped object.
For real, I would never pay 10k for a shiny bead.
it's not inflated, the demand is high and there are no others with the same quality.
a better take would be that one can simply take a less perfect one and trade its appearance for perfect symmetry by sanding them down.
@@matheusfaria7230 Woosh
Especially since them being mass farmed should actually drive down the price because they are no longer rare jewels
@@Tobias5036chronically online
Most people view themselves as vastly superior to other animals … but they also treat large, shiny rocks as a symbol of high-status.
Me who never even seen a pearl in my entire life:
reminder, while some gems have actually applications in useful and vital tech, pearls are literally decoration.
I thought the higher cost was the result of waiting longer to harvest, which means a thicker layer of pearl on the seed bead?
If I find any pearl in general I'd be ecstatic
my mom was eating fried oysters in savanah ga once time i was like 10 and she broke a tooth on a pearl they had missed before they fried it she kept the pearl and sued the restaurant lol
In Tahiti, free divers often take the wild black pearls and put them in their mouths until they come to the surface. It's not uncommon to see teeth marks on them :)
Why do they do that?
@@libera317so they don’t lose them maybe
@@kyetes.866yeah, but there has to be a better way?
@@SaphiraTessa yeah a mesh bag would blow their minds
@@escapetherace1943A bag with a rubber opening would be better. The mesh bag could get turned upside down and empty its contents and/or take too long to get the pearl into. They’re doing this on one breath, so not a lot of time to futz around.
No wonder why those pearls gave Bruce ptsd. Martha had a nice house around her neck.
We really went and said "I'll pay for scar tissue"
Casually shows off hundreds of those pearls
It's 6 AM. I have a class at 9, but that doesn't matter anymore. Screw you college, We're gonna farm pearls boys!
"No imperfections"
The ultra mega little dot:i'm still standin here