Pearl Island is on the island of Lombok

Lombok Island, West Nusa Tenggara, is an island of a thousand pearls. Everywhere lot pearl jewelry sellers. Starting from the hotel lobby, street vendors, tourist areas, to every corner of the city, there is always a pearl sellers. 

Even so, prices remain high sea water pearls. Price per gram of white from around Rp 250,000 and the most expensive brown around Rp 350,000. So the brown pearls which weighs five grams can cost Rp 1,750,000.Sea pearls are sold at a price per gram is only in stores that only big pearl in around the city of Mataram. Sea pearls price per gram depending on the size of his weight. Starting from Rp 250,000 to Rp 500,000 per gram depending on the size.

The larger grains of sea water pearls, for example, weighing five grams, the more expensive the price per gram, can be about Rp 500,000 per gram. The total could be USD 2.5 million for the pearls.

Nice pearl white and brown are seen clear, smooth and tends to round. There is also a round shape and there are small bumps due to their natural sea water pearls can not be formed in the shells.

But freshwater pearl is very cheap. The shape is oval like most of the dove eggs. Freshwater pearl color was pink and white.

Freshwater pearl that has been tied up in rings, earrings, and necklaces to wear only silver lining for Rp 10,000-Rp 20,000 per piece. But sellers pearls hung in the tourist areas there opening price at a price three times the actual price. You have to be brave bid price third.

Gold sellers in the city of Mataram sell pearls complete with rings, necklaces, earrings that have been so tied up with pearls. Buyers can choose a variety of gold jewelry at a price of Rp 475,000 per gram.

While the price of pearl jewelry tied separately calculated depending on the weight of the selected pearls. So when you buy two grams gold ring Rp 475,000 per gram, meaning a total of Rp 950,000.

White Mutara weighing 2 grams purchased at a price of Rp 200,000 per gram, the total price is Rp 400,000. So the total price of the ring to be paid at Rp 1.35 million for a two-gram gold ring and pearl two grams of a binder.

Regional sellers of gold and pearls are the most famous in Mataram is Sekarbela area. Along Jalan Sultan Kaharudin these sellers gold and pearl shops lined on both sides along the way.