Why should you prefer South Sea Pearls over Burmese Pearls?

Pearl quality depends on a variety of natural factors like salinity, temperature, nutrients in sea and weather conditions. South Sea (Australia) produces the finest sea-water pearls in the world. With the overgrowing popularity of South Sea Australian Pearls, many other seas have been explored to produce equally fine variety of pearls. The quality of pearl varies from one region to another.

Burma (Myanmar) was also a good source for fine quality pearls. However the disturbed political conditions lead to the fall of the pearl business before it even became popular. Nowadays, any pearl that comes from Myanmar (Burma) or nearby regions are called Burmese Pearls. This has caused a recent trend of fresh water pearl cultivation using Chinese production techniques in the neighbouring areas. These fresh water pearls are sold as Burmese Pearls. However, Burmese Pearls ideally refers to only seawater pearls.

South Sea Pearls from Australia come through a legal channel and after strict quality controls. Therefore, it is more advisable to buy South Sea Pearls from Australia. Burmese Pearls comes through Grey market (without strict legal procedures) and often mixed with other inferior varieties like the fresh water Chinese pearls.

There is also a lack of knowledge in market and among customers about Burmese pearls. This leaves a lot of scope for dealers to sell low cost inferior pearls as Burmese Pearls at a higher price. Therefore, dealers and suppliers promote Burmese pearls in the market.

With the pricing of both the pearls similar, It is more logical to buy Australian South Sea pearl rather than Burmese fresh water pearl.

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