SSEF GemTrack™: exceptional cases from the last few months

Since January 2019, SSEF offers the gem trade a tracking service and document, known as SSEF GemTrack™. 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.

The SSEF GemTrack™ 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 not being a new find from a source under boycott today

Tobe able to issue such a SSEF GemTrack™ 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 GemTrack™ document for any gemstone which is resubmitted for a recheck and for which a previous SSEF report already exists.

In the past few months, our clients have again supplied exceptional gems for the SSEF GemTrack™ service. A selection of these gems is shown in the photo above, presented in their initial stage and after cutting/recutting. This selection includes a tsavorite garnet of more than 200 ct (rough), a Colombian emerald of more than 40 ct, a Burmese sapphire and a Sri Lankan sapphire, each initially about 60 ct, a pink sapphire from Myanmar of more than 25 ct (rough), and several rubies from Mogok and Namya in Myanmar and from Mozambique.

For any further information about our SSEF GemTrack™ service, please check our website https://www.ssef.ch/gemtrack/ or contact us directly at SSEF (phone: +41 61 262 06 40, email admin@ssef.ch).