Thursday, August 12, 2010

THE BLUE EMPRESS DIAMOND




The Blue Empress
Harrods department store in London has unveiled a diamond necklace valued at around £10 million ($16 million US) which it hopes will be sold as a Christmas present. The necklace has already attracted a bid of $10 million. It is built around the Blue Empress - a rare blue pear-shaped diamond. It weighs 14 carats (the exact weight hasn't been published).
The necklace in which it is set is made from 18K white gold and a number of smaller round white diamonds. It is among a unique collection of 11 blue diamonds mounted in settings from Los Angeles-based designer Christian Tse. Curiously, the Harrods website mentioned nothing of the stone, or the other blue diamonds.
A spokeswoman for the Steinmetz Group, which polished the Blue Empress, said:
"Colored diamonds are very rare but blue diamonds are even more so"

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