🔎 Since January 2019, SSEF offers the gem trade a tracking service and document, known as SSEF GemTrackTM.
It not only allows the client to track a gemstone in time, but is also an attractive option for our clients to tell the story of the provenance of a specific and exceptional gemstone to their customers.
To be able to issue such a SSEF GemTrackTM document, the SSEF has to see the stone twice, for example as a rough stone and then again after cutting. It is important to know that SSEF can issue a GemTrackTM document for any gemstone which is resubmitted for a recheck and for which a previous SSEF report already exists.
The SSEF GemTrackTM is a versatile document that can be used as a
solution for different needs as it may document the journey of a gemstone
from:
🔎 a rough pebble/crystal to the cut gemstone
🔎 a loose stone to the gemstone set in jewellery
🔎 an old weight to a new weight after recutting and repolishing
🔎 an old stone, thus confirming that it has been in the market before a prior date (e.g. embargo).
Here is a selection of these gems, presented in their initial stage and after cutting/recutting.
This selection includes a ruby from Myanmar (Burma) from rough to jewel, a Sri Lankan sapphire initially of about 60 ct, a ruby from Mozambique, a pink sapphire from Myanmar (Burma) of more than 25 ct (rough), a ruby from Myanmar (Burma) and “The Lion of Merelani” an exceptional 116ct faceted tsavorite cut from a nearly 284 ct piece of rough.
