Why Pearls Are So Expensive | So Expensive
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- Pearls come in many different colors and sizes, and these variables help determine their value. The most expensive pearl ever sold was Marie Antoinette's pendant. It went for $32 million in a 2018 Sotheby's auction. Celebrities like Rihanna, Uma Thurman, and Cardi B all adorned themselves in pearls for last year's Met Gala.
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Why Pearls Are So Expensive | So Expensive - Jak na to + styl
My grandma found a purple pearl in an oyster she was eating and they valued it at like $650
Damn, that's some incredible luck. And purple at that.
Well a little similar story happened to me too...
I ate an oyster I felt something round and slippery...and I *ACCIDENTALLY* swallowed it ;-;
I'm thinking that it might be a pearl...
Thanos pearl
You found a stone my dude
Super cool! Oysters - good for libido and your bank account! Off to the oyster bar to get a dozen more oysters.
It was weird to me when they said “the more round the better.” My grandma always told me that bumpy/more oval/imperfect pearls were worth more because they were natural and “one of a kind” since there would never be a pearl that ever looked like it. She said how you knew it wasn’t artificial because real oysters couldn’t make perfect pearls. Technically all real pearls are natural and that uncultured pearls that are perfectly round are possible, but the mindset never left me because whenever I buy pearls they have to be imperfect, otherwise they just look fake
I agree with ur grandma!
I approve the logic
That’s true. One of the reasons Marie Antoinette’s pearl sold for that much
Maybe because round pearls in nature are much more rarer and looks better to the eye that they are more expensive
As far as cultured pearls go (especially for Tahitian and freshwater pearls) the round pearls are far harder to produce. They’re considered more valuable because they’re rarer, and that perfectly spherical line of pearls is what a lot of people want.
However, baroque pearls tend to have better luster and orient than round pearls. That meant that when colourful pearls catch the light, they show off the most beautiful rainbow of colors. I may prefer round pearls, but your grandma has good taste!
"A gemologist at the gemological institute" sounds like someone caught in a lie when asked about their career
Hello, actual studying gemologist here. It's the same thing as saying a professor at a university.
Namron9797 I didn’t mean to insult that guy, it’s just a bit silly. Like saying a butcher is a ‘meatologist and a meatological institute”
No, there is a job called Gemmology, and you have to get a degree to do it, as the Gemstone Jewellery business is big business, so knowing about the physical properties, grades, and how they can be processed to increase their quality is a mix of knowledge coming from geology, chemistry, engineering, marketing, and art and design. A niche discipline, but a necessary one because of the money concerned.
Yeah it sounds funny I really didn’t know it was a real thing
@@clownfromclowntown there's nothing silly about it. It's just a lack of understanding on your part.
So harvesting a pearl is like :
Poking a person with a pin so a scab forms,
And then harvesting the scab.
Abhisar Rawat Ew you ruined pearls for me
Imaginine a neclace of scabs.
Now I'm traumatized
i think its more like this
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithopedion
More like a kidney stone
exactly... so its Keloid.
All the dislikes are from oysters
Kkkk
This made me giggle 😂
And bitter poor people.
I would dislike it too, if I were an oyster. Think about it, they are being kidnapped from their homes, taken to a strange place and essentially raped so the kidnappers can come back later and cut the baby out and sell it to rich people at high prices!!
Why are pearls so expensive? Same reason why AirPods are: Great marketing
Pearl is so expensive because she's Mr.Krabs daughter
boti like father like daughter, pay her more to do more 😏
I have free V-bucks boi WHAT O.O.. but if she was.. well.. 😏
Lame
HAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHA lmao
boti
Thats pearl the whale. This is talking about a real pearl.
I eat oysters from my family's oyster farms every so often and I almost always get a pearl. I never knew natural pearls were rare to find.
Lucky you ahh!
U can collect it and make it into a bracelet!
@@user-gq5qo4qk2w Will do! ^^
lucky
lucky
Back in 2002 I almost cracked my molars and skull when I bit on a pearl from the clam I was eating bought from a local market and cooked at home. It’s just 2mm in diameter so tiny but I kept it because it’s a one in a million experience lol a few years later I won a prize during prom and I superglued it on the trophy. I still have it to this day. Thank you for coming to my TEDTalk.
Very good TEDTalk 👁👄👁👍
Woah-
Is it worth loads
😂😂😂😂😂
@@hkgs_knight4216 of course not
4am browsing recommend
*why pearls are so expensive*
As shit here we go again
No EscapeSP 3 am here lol
Me rn lmao
No EscapeSP same lmao
JUST pause the video and watch it when you wake up the next day 😂
so much is wrong right now it's 4:54 and im watching this and you have 669 likes and im having a mental break down lmfao help
You literally need an x-ray to tell if a pearl is natural or cultured so what I'm learning from this is to claim any pearls I have are natural to impress people
@JRRnotTolkien Why would natural oysters/pearls only be there? There's a lot of salt water ocean out there...
except if your customer happened to get a second opinion and you were caught lying then you would be out of business with some expensive legal fees
@@MsJubjubbird pffff who said we abide by the law
Devon Rusinek temperature also plays a part I think
You can also tell by how round it is.
It’s weird how pearls are so expensive, because when you get down to it, they’re essentially just clam pimples.
I was thinking the exact thing!
Wow
Big brain
Yasssss
I’d say more like clam cysts, or even scabs, but yea
All these explanations as to why Marie Antoinette's pearl was worth so much and yet no one is saying because it was Marie freaking Antoinette's!
They literally said historical significance was a big reason for that one. That's what that means, significant because it was hers.
Natural pearls have layers like an onion
Shrek has layers like an onion
Shrek is a pearl
Mr. Krabs has layers, Mr. Krabs shell has layers Mr. Krabs says MOTHER OF PEARL!
This is my favourite comment
@@mopsop7545 yay
onion has layers like an onion 🤣
@@pow9606So is shrek, because shrek is life, shrek is love. But you gonna get rekt by the Skrek
*My Bank Account: **_That's a lotta damage!_*
dude you're everywhere!! do you ever get off CZcams 😂😂
I SAWED THIS WALLET IN HALF
im not gone bois
CRITICAL HIT!!
Because you see things as a buyer, ask yourself how does a pearl producer see is Bank account?
Trying to buy a pearl for Lisa?
Fun Fact:
*Wearing Marie Atoinette's pearl increases your chances of being decapitated by a bunch of angry Frenchmen*
Marie Antoinette’s Peal:
Buffs:
+ 10 Fashion score
Debuffs:
- 10 Charisma when speaking to French peasants and revolutionaries
- 5 armour against guillotines and revolting citizenry
You ever heard of the Hope Diamond?
XD
@@mafic3351 is it the so called "cursed jewellery"?🤔
Let them eat cake
*natural pearls are hard to find their rare*
Philippines: Not ours
kookie ismylife lol
yep
They are easy to find on reserves too we used to go find them and give them away to elders
Yeah, there was even a giant pearl that they found in palawan back then, but they sold it in a museum, the fisherman that found it kept it under his bed for years because he didn't know what it cost so he just kept it as a good luck charm
Ohh yeah there's 100 million dollars Perl
What Makes Pearls So Expensive ? "Bored rich People"
Exactly.
koko naoo I really want to deny you since I love pearl and I am not rich. But surely I have to admit pearl is just for jewelry (but they use pearl powder for beauty treatment too, at least). Actually, I used to love pearl because it is kind of mystery, long history and expensive, but when I had my first and only mikimoto pearl bracelet I was in love with pearl as itself (still don’t know why but it was so interesting, shiny, high quality as itself, so miracle in my eyes)
That's what makes all things expensive supply demand
JRRnotTolkien yes, I heard that 99% freshwater pearls come from china. It was easy to make freshwater pearl but make salt water pearl was still a big challenge, and mikimoto was the first pioneer to success in it (named it akoya pearl), to make salt water pearl became less expensive and quality. But still, the most expensive pearls are natural sea pearls like the south sea white pearl, the golden south sea pearl and black pearl. For fengshui, those sea salt pearls are good for us more, but of course, we need to be bored rich people who always want to keep our rich forever to demand such kind of high quality pearl.
koko naoo Hotel? Trivago
'World's largest' clam pearl found in Philippines, worth $130 million. The world's largest natural clam pearl may have been uncovered in the Philippines. The pearl, weighing 34 kilograms, was found by a fisherman 10 years ago in the sea off the coast of Palawan Island.
So.... to get a natural pearl just take a clam and hope that there's a natural pearl inside.
didnt he keep it under his bed for a few years as well?
@General Antiseptic Lol the solid blame it on the "white people" xD hahaha
@General Antiseptic gonna let you know Malcolm x denounced stuff about all white people being bad if I remember mostly because he was lied to by NOI also not just white people have done atrocities like the rape of nanjing also africans invented slavery they even sold them to white people.
adam young X I have been to Palawan and that island is nothing but paradise I tell you. 😌
One day the oysters will be ripping out stones in our stomachs and wearing them as expensive necklaces
😂😂😂
Hopefully by that time, we will be just like oysters in the way that we won’t be able to process pain due to a lack of a central nervous system, and won’t have any consciousness.
Me: Okay I'll finally sleep I have school tmr
'Why are pearls so expensive'
Me: Good question why are they-
Aghhhhh same problem
Thank God internet didn’t exist on my school days! 😅😅
Underrated comment
Pearls are only expensive because we place artificial value on them.
That's it.
blert yes! Exactly
@@1313aves it's so ridiculous lol.
YoungD3mon314 and silver
@@1313aves Actually gold and silver are not valuable due to artificial value placed on them. Both metals possess properties that other metals do not. And both of these metals have been valuable since early times.
Well watever . I agree.
Yet cultured pearl jewelry from luxury brands like Mikimoto are very expensive BUT THEY ARE CULTURED NOT NATURAL
I suppose very expensive here means hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not millions, for natural pearls as opposed to tens of thousands of dollars for Mikimotos.
You are paying for the name/brand, just like all other high end (fashion) brands.
Well Mikimoto is as stated basically the original cultured pearl maker they’ve been doing this for a WHILE and it’s essentially the birkin bag of pearl world.
An exclusive symbol of Wealth and status
Hence the Mikimoto crown worn by Catriona Gray is cultured hahahahahahahahhaa
@Fat Earther God watch the video. It says that Mikimoto pearls are cultured.
Here in Palawan, Philippines.. there is also a distinction between a freshwater Pearl and marine/seawater pearl.
The seawater pearl is more valuable than the other.
2 years ago i went to a beach and was collecting shells and a shell came into my hand along with seawater and it had a little pearl
Mother earth showed you her 💕 love
Sure
business insider: pearls are for the elite celebs and are very expensive
vsco girls: hold my pearl necklace
marisa eterno can you explain what vsco is..?
Katza -Chan it’s a photography app, and a vsco girl is someone who dresses like people on the app
marisa eterno oh ty
Pearls taste like blood
I ate one and my tooth was gone
It’s like giving the oysters a canker sore ☹️ pearls are beautiful but ouch
Chu Ming Min Luftig Oof
Chu Ming Min Luftig hahaha, oh do grow up! 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
@@JulieWallis1963 why do I need to grow up?
julie Wallis Calm down
julie Wallis why don't you grow up and stop being an online troll.
I once went boating in a lake inside a bird sanctuary and there was a fisherman who offered to get us pearls. He casually took a dive and found 4-5 oysters in about 15mins or so but only 2 of them had pearls in it. One was black and the other was peach in color, this video makes me appreciate them so much😂
I’ve always preferred pearls over diamonds. While some like the sparkle of diamonds, I love the glow and lustre of pearls
nothing is actually worth that much. Society is what makes thinks valuable
Sam Reyes no shit
Well done Sherlock
And isn't that enough to cause an existential crisis
@Fatima Saleh lol, rare?
@@feelslikebatman6091 do you see a natural pearl everyday? every year? every decade?
I've just starting buying pearls and it's actually hard to tell the difference between a necklace that cost £800 and one that cost £20. Unless you had them side by side, the difference between good lower cost pearls and really expensive pearls is subtle and when you are wearing them no one else would be able to tell the difference. 😄
As a jewelry maker, I would agree that it does take a trained eye to see that difference, which is why gemologists like the one in the video get paid the big money. I do find it interesting that pearls are considered "gems," though. As a crafter in general, and a would-be investor, I will have to research that. 🤔
But you would know.
im from the phil.i had pearl,pls contact me.
I wish my blisters were as valuable as an oyster's
wait a second, PEARLS ARE PIMPLES!!!!!!!
I wish I had pearls instead of pimples. But that would more painful to live since people will make a grab for it.😅
How likely ALL those white pearls on her dress were REAL pearls?
They were. It was Rihanna, not a drag queen.
@@Namron9797 honestly I would expect a drag queen would be more aware of what they are wearing. Rihanna probably has a team of stylists and could not care less as long as it looks good.
@@Namron9797 lmao
They were real pearls, but cultured ones. No chance they're natural.
1:07 Disappointed that his name wasn't Tom Pearlman 😆
@@owens9571 Tom Seaman? 🤔
Thank you insider business for sharing all of this with us. I am literally binge watching all the videos these are soooo informative. I have told about the videos to my friends thousands of time, I share to them
When I was probably about 10 years old my family used to collect mussels from the jetty at the nearby beach for dinner. I was eating one of the mussels and I bit down on something hard. It was a half black and half white pearl which was really cool to me. I still remember this, but since then I have lost the pearl.
Off topic I know, but what is Uma Thurman doing these days?
keeping both of her eyes from falling off
Ayaz Hussain trying to kill Bill
Enjoying life with her newfound daughter.
Busy with the #MeToo movement..
Yeah I was wondering about her too.
You like my oyster scabs? Gee thanks, just bought em.
very underrated comment
Big like for the presentation and animation ..hats off to the editor and the creator 👍🏻🙏🏻🔥
I think you win at life if you’re able to reiterate this beautiful process at will w/o any assist (while wearing pearls)
Damn I should really be doing something productive with my time
wanna go rob a bank?
Me Troll Lmao
Produce some pearls.
Do women even want pearls anymore? I can't remember the last time I ever saw a woman wearing pearls.
madbug1965 my mum wears purls she likes it more than Cartier
My mom, who is now 60 is the last woman I saw wearing one. I think her generation is the last one who is attracted to pearls.
I love pearls
in the beginning of the video
There are people who still like pearls.
We went swimming on a province beach once. We saw a local selling jewelries and my aunt bought me a beautiful bracelet with about 8 pearls for $2. I decided to wear it some years later and somebody saw it and bought it for $200.
hey can you do a video on why life is so expensive? I am unable to find anything, please help.
This comment made my day 🤣
You should make it a series called so cheap
Why are pearls so expensive? Same reason why AirPods are: Great marketing
Congrats on finding 41 people as basic and stupid as yourself.
Next time, maybe watch the video you are commenting on cause they explain why. Also, take a basic adult course in marketing. You'll learn more words other than marketing, like supply and demand that explain that you can market the shit out of something and if no one wants it, it will do nothing.
Lol yess
Maybe its because they are rare? Idk chief
Jimmmm
Well I know that a single pearl can take years to form and then finding it is also near impossible because of predators. To find a natural pearl in the ocean is what gives it it’s true value
Here in the Philippines, you can literally farm pearls and just need a little bit of skill to do that.
Isnt it cultured pearls, like what was said in the video? Is there another technique to farm them?
I grew up on an island eating oysters very regularly, at least 6 dozen a month amongst my family. I found pearls inside 1 oyster in my entire lifetime, and in that oyster were 13 pearls.
OMG! Did you make a lot of money off of them?
@@tiffanyg5044 I never sold them. I want to keep them since they're such a rare find!
That's awesome man you should find out how much their worth
@@brandonmeraz2440 I wouldn't even know where to bring them.
Has anyone realized that on the so expensive title screen there is this random trigonometry equations that is not even related to money??
Not just trig but a lot of other math too lol
The makers clearly dont know much about math 😂
Can you take a pearl from one type of oyster, and put it into another, and grow layers of different colors, from different oysters?
WOW thank you so much for sharing the very beautiful and very interesting video @ Business Insider 👍👍😀😀🌹🌹❤️❤️
Kdrama Addicts joined the chat
“It’s a mermaid tear”
"Why aren't millennial buying pearls?"
Too busy listening to rap music and buying hypebeast clothing
Ahh, hypebeast. The pearl of the 21st century...
They are too expensive. Student loan debt is preventing many from buying luxury goods (USA perspective). Unless they receive it as a gift from someone....
@@cupcakeangel365 Why can't people my age be original rather than blindly follow a trend?
@@futbolita89742 So nithking......
The Diamond authority wants to know your location. You have so many pearls with no owner.
500 subscribers with no videos yes-
YESSS I FOUND IT
Lol steven universe
I have a south sea pearl size 20mm
imagine if Pink Diamond had like thousands of pearls and we didn't know
You know that its time to sleep when your in this side of the youtube
Hahahahaha 😂
Jokes on you I'm actually into this shit
in palawan they sell perls for less than a dollor
Real or fake?
Ikr?!?! Even In Davao
@@sereensamaraii8032 real stuff
The best way to clean pearls is to let them soak in a bowl full of vinegar overnight!
jk it will dissolve them.
No way for real ???? Ima look it up now 😁
Zeus Monroe did u look it up?
@@VeggieBond yes I did looked it up, and it took a littel longer that what I tought it would but it did.
The more concentrated the vinegar (% of Acid volume/water volume), the quicker it will dissolve the pearl.
Hi Cleopatra 😁
My mom found a pearl 20 years ago and still has it to this day 💜
Pearls are one of my favorite things in the world.
love ur why so expensive series !
Today i learnt something new
Pearls are classified as gems
This channel is a gold mine!
I actually visited a black Tahitian pearl farm four years ago and it was a really cool experience, we got some cheep one pearl necklaces, my dad still wears his pearl charm on his necklace every day and my sister wears her jewelry set every once in a while (read like at least twice a week, it has a pretty purple shine to it). It really was a wonderful experience, and I recommend going to french polynesia is you ever have the chance.
Ive found a small natural pearl before whall eating oysters
Cool
Keep it
My grandma has a pearl necklace, real pearls. It's beautiful.
I remember visiting a pearl factory in China. They use a plastic(?) half-sphere and they just glue these two half together to form a beautiful sphere
Beautiful snot, I love pearls, they're so gorgeous
That's because
*_WE ARE THE CRYSTAL GEMS_*
Pearl is a natural pearl because she has layers
@@andreafraustoz she's definitely thick in the head that's for sure
They Form in *SAIT*
We are the oysters!
Pearls are symbolic of the beginnings of human culture, which is the beginning of human slavery, and the interference of groups like ‘the Illuminati’ and ‘the Freemasons’ traveling around the world with there treasure chest filled with books of holy scriptures from the original bloodline from ancient Egypt on how to manipulate and control(culture) the bodies of man into a moldable carbon copy shell to be used for commercial exploitation. Very much like an oyster. It all starts with TRAUMA! The oyster was the beginnings of MKULTRA trauma based mind control. Which has now been systematized into everyone citizen of a first world nation. Including you and me!
amazing dress😍🙏 💖🎀 Thanks for the great video! I watched with great pleasure!
💕👍
Absolutely pearl are the amazing creativity of nature describing it's luminous beauty..
If I remember correctly, the luster, after purchase and for more long-term usage, is also influenced by how much you wear it. Pearls shouldn't be tucked away in a jewellery box for months or years at a time, they grow duller that way. They actually maintain their luster when they rub against your own skin.
It basically sounds like servents being sold at a high price
@@owens9571 steven universe
😂nice one
Oh the poor poor gems
The Dead Gachatuber exactly! The oyster is only a mirror to our own human existence. Just like all of nature. A symbol for the elite masters to posses and war-ship as a guide on how to maintain power and control over there subjects. Like an ancient form of black magic/sorcery or voodoo the precious metals contain the trauma of the soul of the victim which is a super natural link to the victims children through cosmic energy, those children are US!
My god it does
@@camerontaylor7471 It's a steven universe reference
In many coastal cities along China you can buy a seashell with pearls for only $20. There are usually about 15-30 pearls in one shell
cultural pearls
Great intro! Got me locked in.
I Love Pearls so Classic And it will never go out of style.
I read the title in my head as "why pearls are so expensive *whisper (so expensive)"
Dubstepshots Brick?
My mum owns natural pearl jewelery sets, and yes! You can see these layers on the pearl. Fun Fact is that not all natural pearls are spherical! One of the sets my mum owns has very weird almost cylindrical shaped pearls with layers you can see outside!
Nice doc short and weet,good one
We should appreciate this guy he has done a lot of researching just for us
There cool
pearls are cool
This video is honestly better than the other videos in this channel 👌👌
Informative video 👍🏻
educating smart channel keep up good work
Do an episode on graphing calculators!
nobody:
not a single soul:
me at 1 am:
I got a few tiny pearl from mussels I was eating. For a long time me and my famaly thought the chrunch was cause by a grain of sand until I manage to not break the hard piece and take it out of my mouth that we realise you could found pearl in them. I try to be more careful now but I still feel some crunch from time to time
One time, I was eating an oyster in Florida on a trip. I bit down on something hard, I kept trying to bite it thinking it was just a hard edible substance in the oyster but I looked at it because I couldn't bit down on it. It was a very small pearl about the size of a bead, sadly, I lost it and I don't know where it is now but I was really surprised by that.
My mom has so many of them, she always said they were real but I had no idea it could be expensive 🤣🤣
Maybe I'm crazy but I've always found mother of pearl inlay way more beautiful and intriguing than just straight up pearls. I find pearls rather boring and simple they're just a white milky sphere. And the one in the video, Marie Antoinette's pendant is even worse with it's weird shape. I get that the process of how they are formed makes them rare and unique, so obviously the value goes up but still I'll never understand why they're so desired. At least diamonds which have a similar reasoning can be beautiful sparkling masterpieces.
I'm a pirates of the carribean fan and when the gemologist in this video said "the pearl" I immediately thought of the black pearl ship lol!
I own one strand of pink almost peach colored pearls and they are more like an oval shape and I love them so much. I also own a lot of fake pearls since I cant really afford to buy real pearls all the time.
"Think about the layers of an onion"
Me: *immediately thinks of Shrek*
I just made a cultured pearl necklace for five bucks. You guys are getting super ripped off.
Sold them for only 5? Seems like you got ripped off
@@shinatsuki8957 god no, they sell for 35 hand strung with silver findings
@@RedRedux sorry i probablt misunderstood
I've made a 50 foot strand for about 20. No idea why, I was just bored and my grandmother bought a ton for some reason.
Cmac 99% pearl in the world market now came from China. So maybe they have some offer for bad quality pearl. I got a pearl in a very ugly shape but about 20 mm in a Chinatown shop for $20. That pearl weight lighter than one mikimoto akoya pearl at 6-7mm. The high quality has standard itself.
omg the black pearls look so elegant
0:25 I really loved this outfit
Very interesting
i see you everywhere
why are you everywhere
Where ever I go, I see your face.
Dude i literally see your comment 10 times a day whenever i watch a video damn dude 😂
"CARDI-B WAS BASICALLY DRESSED LIKE AN OYSTER" XD
I remember being a child playing on the beach, and I found 2 pearls inside an oyster. One was black and the other one was dark red. I thought it was some kind of animal and threw it back at the sea. When I told my grandma, she almost cried a lil bit.
Black Pearl's are found in tahiti and manahiki in the cook islands, in nz, they have cultured paua Pearl's, same culturing technology employed but in abalone (paua), instead of an oyster. The colour is beautiful, like that of a paua shell,with shades of blue, green and purple. They're only produced as mabe Pearl's (half a pearl).