Top 10 Most Expensive Pieces of Jewelry

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  1. The Hope Diamond may be found in numerous museums, and it is required by law to be on exhibit for at least 25 days each year. The history hidden behind its famed blue-pink radiance can only be imagined. The gem is considered to have been created around 3200 BC!


    As one of the most expensive pieces of jewelry, The Hope Diamond is a perfect representation of luxury. They were originally acquired for King Louis XV's mistress. This jewel was held aside as a thank-you present from France to the United States after they were freed from English domination.


    The diamond was dubbed "The White House" after the American purchase in honor of their new home. It became more than just a valuable product; it became a symbol of prosperity and harmony.


    The Hope Diamond is the world's most valuable piece of jewelry, standing out amid the other stones. A Brazilian miner discovered this diamond, which he later sold for $200,000! When you compound that figure by 600 years, you can see how much money could have been made at today's pricing.


    Price: $250 million

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  2. Laurence Graff, the founder of Graff Diamonds, is renowned as the "King of Diamonds" for a reason. Few people would dare to construct a peacock-shaped diamond brooch costing a whopping US$100 million, making it the most costly brooch ever manufactured. Graff's claim to diamond domination - and extravagance - is bolstered by this striking statement.


    The Peacock Brooch was unveiled at the TEFAF market in Maastricht, where the world's greatest collectors of fine art and antiques congregate to browse some of the world's most valuable things. Few of the exhibits will be able to compete in terms of wow factor or price tag. This priceless bird is encrusted with 1,305 diamonds, including 120.81ct of exceptionally valuable colored diamonds.


    Regarded as one of the most expensive pieces of jewelry, The Peacock Brooch is a 20.02ct Fancy Deep Blue pear-shaped diamond. A dazzling rainbow of white, pink, yellow, orange, and even green diamonds fan out from this brilliant blue diamond. The blue diamond centerpiece can be removed and worn separately if you want a more understated design.


    Price: $100 million

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  3. The Pink Star, formerly known as the Steinmetz Pink, is a 59.60 carat (11.92 g) diamond with a Gemological Institute of America color rating of Fancy Vivid Pink. De Beers mined the Pink Star in South Africa in 1999, and it weighed 132.5 carats in the rough. The Pink Star is the world's largest diamond, with a Vivid Pink rating. The Beny Steinmetz Group dubbed Steinmetz Diamonds took a careful 20 months to cut the Pink Star due to its remarkable rarity. It was launched at a public ceremony in Monaco on May 29, 2003.


    Sotheby's Geneva auctioned The Pink Star on November 13, 2013. The sale price was CHF 68,000,000 (USD 83,187,381 including commission fees), setting a new world record for any gemstone. The Graff Pink had previously held the record. The Pink Star was purchased by New York diamond cutter Isaac Wolf, who called it The Pink Dream, though the auction price was not cleared by the buyer, according to Forbes magazine, and the diamond was returned to Sotheby's inventory.


    Chow Tai Fook Enterprises purchased The Pink Star in an auction in Hong Kong on 3 April 2017 for US$71.2 million.


    Price: $71.2 million

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  4. When A Heritage in Bloom, designed by Chinese jeweler Wallace Chan, was unveiled in September 2015, it became the world's most costly diamond necklace. The design, which is inspired by Chinese culture and contains significant motifs including bats and butterflies, is set with an amazing 11,551 diamonds weighing a total of 383.40cts.


    Chow Tai Fook, a Hong Kong-based jewelry company, commissioned Chan to design the necklace after purchasing the famed Cullinan Heritage diamond in 2010. The 104-carat centerpiece is surrounded by jade and features 24 D-color internally flawless diamonds cut from the 507.55-carat raw stone. The stunning necklace took over 47,000 hours to make and can be worn in 27 different ways thanks to its modular design.


    As one of the most expensive pieces of jewelry, A Heritage in Bloom is a timeless item that will be cherished for years to come. Because it is priceless, the monetary value of this wonderful object cannot be calculated.


    Price: $55 million

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  5. This necklace by Lebanese jewelers Mouawad, dubbed L'Incomparable, boasts the world's largest internally perfect diamond. Before being combined into this exquisite Mouawad necklace, which was first revealed at the Doha Jewelry and Watch Exhibition in 2013, it was displayed in museums like the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC.


    According to Forbes.com, the L'Incomparable Diamond Necklace, with a total weight of 637 carats, is worth $55 million. The 407.48-carat Fancy Deep brownish-yellow shield step-cut diamond in the 18k rose gold necklace is the largest internally flawless diamond ever graded by GIA.


    35 raw diamonds, 27 pear-shaped diamonds, nine heart-shaped diamonds, five emerald-cut diamonds, five cushion-cut diamonds, four oval-shaped diamonds, three Asscher-cut diamonds, and two radiant-cut diamonds make up the opulent necklace's surrounding jewels.


    A little girl in the Democratic Republic of Congo discovered the Incomparable diamond in a rubble pile in 1980. Because the rubble was deemed too big, it had not been tested for diamonds. The rough diamond weighed 890 carats before it was cleaned and shown to the public in 1984. It was then displayed at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History and has since been seen in a number of other museums.


    Price: $55 million

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  6. The Blue Moon of Josephine is a 12.03 carat (2.406 g) blue diamond that was discovered in South Africa in January 2014 and sold for a record-breaking price of $48.4 million at a Sotheby's auction in Geneva in November 2015. The cushion-shaped bluestone, one of the most expensive pieces of jewelry, is the largest "fancy vivid" cushion-shaped blue gem ever sold at auction.


    According to David Bennett, the head of Sotheby's international jewelry division, the "Blue Moon" sale set a record for the highest-ever price per carat, making the diamond the most expensive jewel ever sold at auction as well world's most expensive diamond, regardless of color.


    The diamond was purchased by Hong Kong businessman and fugitive convicted felon Joseph Lau Luen-hung, who called it Josephine after his seven-year-old daughter. The day before the "Blue Moon" auction, Lau paid $28.5 million for a 16.08 carat (3.216 g) pink diamond at a Christie's auction, a record price for a jewel of its kind, and nicknamed it the "Sweet Josephine" diamond. Lau paid $9.5 million for another blue diamond in 2009, which he called the "Star of Josephine".


    Price: $48.4 million

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  7. The Graff Pink is a rare 24.78-carat pink diamond that was originally owned by Harry Winston, an American famous jeweler. Sotheby's auctioneers in Geneva, Switzerland, sold the diamond in a ring on November 16, 2010. The diamond was predicted to enter the top 10 most costly diamonds in the world prior to its sale; nevertheless, after selling for US $46 million (£29 million), it became the most expensive single jewel ever sold at auction at the time.


    The diamond is rated as "fancy strong pink" by the Gemological Institute of America—a high color grading for pink diamonds—and has been assessed as Diamond type IIa, putting it in the top 2% of the world's diamonds.


    The diamond's early history is obscure. It was sold in the 1950s by American famous jeweler Harry Winston to a private collector, who kept it until it was auctioned off in 2010. Despite its rarity, the diamond remained nameless for many years. The diamond is emerald cut with softened sides and set in a platinum ring with two shield-shaped diamonds flanking it.


    Price: $46 million

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  8. The Winston Blue is the moniker given to the largest flawless vivid blue diamond purchased by Harry Winston, Inc. (a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Swatch Group since January 2013) from an unidentified person on May 15, 2014, at Christie's Geneva Magnificent Jewels sale for $23.8 million. The 13.22-carat blue diamond set a world record price of about $1.8003 million per carat. In 2013, Harry Winston, Inc. purchased a 101.73-carat colorless diamond dubbed Winston Legacy at Christie's Geneva jewelry sale. The American luxury jeweler then paid $26.7 million ($254,400 per carat) for the colorless diamond, setting a world record for the highest price paid per carat for a colorless diamond.


    The diamond was christened 'The Blue' at the auction. After it was purchased at auction, Nayla Hayek, CEO of Harry Winston Inc., gave it the moniker Winston Blue.


    A pear-shaped diamond, weighing roughly 1.00 and 0.96 carats, flanks the diamond on either side. On March 25, 2014, the Gemological Institute of America verified that the diamond was fancy bright blue in color, flawless in clarity, and a Type IIb diamond.


    Price: $23.8 million

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  9. The Wittelsbach-Graff Diamond is a 31.06-carat (6.212 g) deep-blue diamond with internally perfect clarity that was discovered in India's Kollur Mine. Laurence Graff paid £16.4 million for the Wittelsbach Diamond in 2008. Graff disclosed in 2010 that he had the diamond trimmed by three diamond cutters to correct flaws. The diamond was called the Wittelsbach-Graff Diamond after losing more than 4 carats (800 mg). There is some debate since opponents believe that the recutting has changed the diamond so much that it is no longer recognizable, jeopardizing its historical integrity.


    The original Wittelsbach Diamond, also known as Der Blaue Wittelsbacher, was a 35.56-carat (7.112 g) fancy, deep, greyish-blue diamond with VS2 purity that was in both the Austrian and Bavarian Crown jewels.


    This masterpiece, discovered as part of a larger collection, has become the heart and soul of The Jewelry House Privy Councillors. From every aspect, it changes and has more clarity than any other gemstone on the planet. For generations, its beauty has enthralled kings and queens. Clarity, shape, and color outperform them all, with five out of six attributes exceeding GIA industry standards.


    Price: $23.4 million

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  10. The Gulf Pearl Necklace is a four-row pearl and diamond necklace with complex, articulated pearl and diamond rows that alternate with one another. The necklace is 36.5 cm (14 in) in length and falls into the category of a "choker."


    The upper row is made up of 57 natural, white, spherical, or near-spherical saltwater pearls, going all the way around the necklace, with a clasp hidden beneath. The larger pearls in this row are in the front, while the size of the pearls gradually diminishes towards the back. This row's pearls range in size from 5.1 mm to 9.1 mm. The next three rows of the necklace emerge from the upper row of pearls in such a way that only 22 pearls form the single row of pearls behind which the entire necklace is suspended. As a result, the four alternating rows of pearls and diamonds are only located in the front half of the necklace, which is visible when the necklace is worn on the upper chest region.


    The fact that the pearl parure was designed by Harry Winston gives an estimate of when it was created, which should be sometime between 1932, the year he formed his business and began manufacturing his own jewelry.


    Price: $4.1 million

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