Rarity: If you had one thousand piles of diamonds and one thousand diamonds in each pile, only one of those diamonds would be a 1-carat diamond. It would take 5 times that quantity to find a 2 carat stone. DeBeers, the world’s diamond supplier, has no answer to the question how many stones have to [...]
After the world’s most expensive blue diamond, The Wittelsbach, was sold to diamond dealer – Laurence Graff – last year for $24.3 million, Sotheby’s has another impressive blue diamond for the next auction. Despite the economic woe, apparently sales for big, rare stones are still going strong. The new diamond is a fancy vivid blue [...]
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Made by Mikimoto, this 18-inch pearl strand, took 10 years to gather the 27 perfectly round cultured pearls. The pearls are White South Sea AAA quality and are extremely rare. No wonder it took so long! The expensive strand also has a noval clasp with 11,92 carats of diamonds, but its beauty realy lies in [...]
The Fabergé Eggs are today more than ever a symbol of rarity, luxury and tradition. The jewelry beaded precious metal eggs were created by Peter Carl Fabergé and his assistants. 69 eggs were created between 1885 and 1917, and their main purpose was to be offered as gifts to the great czars of Russia, as [...]
The Lesotho Promise is the wonderful creation of Graff, a necklace that truly takes the breath away. The awesome 603 carat stone was found in the Letsenf mine, in Lesotho, the 15th largest diamond found. Graff payed quite a sum for it, the diamond ads up to $12.36 million. After thorough analysis, the diamond was [...]
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