This is just as beautiful as the picture makes it appear.  The double circle of gemstones is both solid, heavy, and sparkling!  The craftsmanship is excellent.  While on the screen it might appear to be more flamboyant than you'd necessarily wear, in person it's more muted without being any less beautiful.  The colors are not garish at all, they are muted but deep and rich.

The pendant comes in a plastic baggie inside a nice little gift box, separate from the chain (included in the box but separate from the pendant).  The packaging is not at all tacky and you could receive this, attach the chain and put the whole thing into the box or you could feel perfectly comfortable sending this as a gift to a distant recipient and know that the presentation is perfectly adequate and does not detract from the beauty or costliness of the pendant.  (I've gotten other jewelry on line where I was so happy to receive it first b/c the packaging was unbelievably tacky.  Here, it would have been fine to send it straight to the recipient.)

Beautiful gift.  One that the recipient is sure to wear happily and can be assured she will receive many compliments while doing so.