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  Luxury Engagement Ring Guide 2026 Blue Sapphire Engagement Ring: Beyond the Diamond, Beyond the Ordinary Some stones hold the sky. Some hold the sea. The blue sapphire holds both, and then some. The twentieth century kind of made the diamond the default engagement stone so thoroughly that most people just stopped thinking of it as a real choice. It was simply the engagement ring. But under that general agreement there was still this quiet counter-tradition, and it carried on, even if not loud. Like a coloured stone, worn with the same intention, but somehow with a different kind of meaning. No stone really represents that custom more powerfully than the blue sapphire engagement ring, a jewellery piece that has lived through, and often shown up before, every diamond fashion for centuries. Blue sapphires are basically corundum tinted by little traces of iron and titanium, and that's what gives you this whole range of blue tones, from pale cornflower all the way to the deep midnight...