A taste of the district
Silom is the world's coloured-stone trading floor — the densest concentration of ruby and sapphire dealers, cutters and exporters anywhere, where rough corundum from Myanmar, Sri Lanka and East Africa arrives to be transformed by Thai heat-treatment skill and moved on. Most of that stone leaves in a parcel bound for a foreign bench; these are the forms it takes once it's cut and set, sourced on Amazon so a taste of the trade can travel home.
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Ring
14K gold · natural ruby
A single red corundum on a band — the stone Silom is built to serve, since the trade's reputation rests on getting ruby's colour right. Thai cutting and heat expertise is what draws the world's rough rubies through this district first.
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14K gold · natural sapphire
Ruby's twin from the same corundum family, worn in deep blue — the other half of the trade that made Silom the coloured-stone capital. The cut and the treatment that set the colour are both, more often than not, Bangkok's work.
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Natural ruby · silver or gold
One ruby on a fine chain, from a house that crafts in Thailand — the district's signature stone worn plainly at the collar, the single skill Silom is known for on show.
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14K gold · natural sapphire
A matched pair of blue sapphires, where the bench's quiet test is finding two stones of one colour. In a district that trades corundum by the parcel, matching a clean pair is where a cutter's eye shows.
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10K gold · natural ruby
A line of set rubies with diamond accents — the district's finished coloured-stone bracelet, each stone asked to answer its neighbour.
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Gold vermeil · natural sapphire
A row of natural sapphires around the band — the multi-stone format that reflects Silom's volume sapphire cutting and setting.
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14K gold · natural emerald
A natural emerald in gold — the secondary coloured stone rounding out the district's big-three alongside ruby and sapphire.
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Natural spinel · loose
An unset natural spinel — the rarer stone of the Thai-Myanmar trade, sold the way Silom actually deals: for colour and clarity, ready to become whatever a jeweller decides.
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