1970s
The first generation
Our grandfather begins dealing in Ceylon sapphires, sorting rough by hand and trading among the island's cutters.
Our Heritage
A family sapphire house in Sri Lanka
Three generations of sourcing, grading and trading the sapphires of Sri Lanka, with nothing hidden about where each stone comes from.
About us
A family rooted in the Ceylon gem trade
We source, grade and trade natural Ceylon sapphires, and we tell you exactly what each one is.
Rohan Sapphires began in the gem fields of Sri Lanka, where our family learned to read a rough stone by eye long before any certificate existed. A good gem was judged by the light it held and the weight in the hand.
That same discipline still shapes our work. We know this trade and the people in it, from the miners who win the rough to the cutters who finish each stone.
Our Philosophy
Asapphireisonlyworththetruthtoldaboutit.AcrossthreegenerationswehavechosenCeylonstonesbyeye,namedoriginandtreatmentplainly,andpassedeachoneonexactlyasitformed,withnothingaddedandnothinghidden.
Three generations
From the gem fields to a gem house
A continuous line of family knowledge, the same eye refined across three generations.
1990s
From rough to refined
The family moves into cutting and grading, building relationships with the master lapidaries of Beruwala and the first independent laboratories.
2010s
Provenance, in writing
We formalise full source-to-certificate traceability, documenting every significant stone from the gravel bed to the laboratory report.
Today
A house for collectors
Rohan Sapphires serves private collectors and designers worldwide, inquiry-first, with the same eye and discipline we began with.
1970s
The first generation
Our grandfather begins dealing in Ceylon sapphires, sorting rough by hand and trading among the island's cutters.
1990s
From rough to refined
The family moves into cutting and grading, building relationships with the master lapidaries of Beruwala and the first independent laboratories.
2010s
Provenance, in writing
We formalise full source-to-certificate traceability, documenting every significant stone from the gravel bed to the laboratory report.
Today
A house for collectors
Rohan Sapphires serves private collectors and designers worldwide, inquiry-first, with the same eye and discipline we began with.
What we stand for
The standards we hold to
How we source, what we disclose, and how we deal with the people behind each stone.
01
Direct from the miners
We buy at the source, from the small-scale miners who work these pits by hand, with no anonymous middlemen in the chain.
02
Fair dealing
The Ceylon trade is artisanal by nature, worked by hand. We deal fairly with the miners and cutters we buy from.
03
Nothing hidden
Origin, treatment, and the character of every stone, disclosed in full and documented.
“We trade only in stones we can account for, and we describe each one by its origin, its treatment, and exactly what it is.”
The Rohan family
Questions
The house & its stones
Where our sapphires come from, how we deal, and why unheated matters to us.
Three generations. The family has dealt in Ceylon sapphires for over fifty years, from sorting rough by hand to the inquiry-first house we are today.
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