Tiffany & Co. is currently selling its most expensive piece of jewelry ever.
“The World’s Honest Necklace,” unveiled in Dubai on Sunday, boasts a stunning 180 carats of diamonds set in platinum.
The 578 total diamonds embody 353 spherical good reduce stones and 224 custom-cut baguettes. The centerpiece is an 80-carat oval, flawless D-color (highest grade and nearly colorless) “Empire Diamond,” getting its identify from the Empire State Constructing within the retailer’s metropolis of origin, New York. The Empire Diamond was ethically sourced in Bostwana, reduce and polished in Israel, then set within the jeweler’s New York Metropolis workshop.
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The centerpiece within the World’s Honest Necklace may also be converted into a ring; a Tiffany jeweler shall be on name to mount it onto platinum at any time when the wearer chooses.
Though the long-lasting jeweler has but to disclose the worth of the piece, industry experts estimate the fee is between $20 million and $30 million.
Tiffany said the design for the World’s Honest Necklace was impressed by a Tiffany necklace created for the 1939 World’s Honest held in Queens’ Flushing Meadow-Corona Park. That piece included a 200-carat aquamarine stone and 429 diamonds.
The Empire Diamond is likely to be Tiffany’s largest and costliest ever on the market, nevertheless it’s not the retailer’s greatest diamond of all time: That title goes to the well-known 128.54-carat “Tiffany Diamond,” which the corporate mentioned is priceless and never on the market.
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