Diamond Count Pink

About the origin of the extremely rare pink diamond weighing 24,78 carats know very little. Bought it for the private collection of the famous American jeweler Harry Winston ( Harry Winston), and then resold to another collector and jeweler Laurence Graff (Laurence Graff). The price he paid was the highest ever received for a piece of jewelry.

The GREAT hope diamond

Diamond of hope (eng. The Hope Diamond) — a large diamond weighing 45,52 carat deep sapphire-blue color and size 25,60 x 21,78 x 12,00 mm. Is in the Museum of natural history at the Smithsonian institution in Washington (USA)[1][2]. Perhaps the most famous of diamonds in a New Light.The story of the stone is surrounded by legends. It is believed that it was derived from a 115-carat Blue diamond of Tavernier[en], which the Versailles court of India brought the famous hunter jewelry Jean-Baptiste Tavernier. He purchased it somewhere near the Golconda. It is believed that the Tavernier diamond was mined in mines kolarsky[en] and at one time adorned the statue of the goddess SITA.

After Tavernier sold the diamond to the Royal jeweler, he used it to make several smaller stones. One of them, once decorated the ring of the Empress Maria Feodorovna, now kept in the Diamond Fund. Another had weight 69 carats and appeared in the inventories of the Royal treasure as the "blue diamond of the crown" (FR. diamant bleu de la Couronne), or "the blue Frenchman". Louis XIV is believed to have worn it on the neck set in gold pendant, but under Louis XV he was decorated with the Royal suspension of the order of the Golden fleece.

In 1787 naturalist Mathurin was-Jacques Brisson has borrowed the stone to the king for scientific experiments. When the beginning of the revolution in 1792, the Royal family was under house arrest in the Palace, entered the thieves who stole all the crown jewels, including the blue diamond.

Although the story of the stone on the documents is cut off, about his fate there is a lot of guesswork. According to one hypothesis, the theft was engineered by Danton for bribing the enemies of the revolution, according to another, the stone fell into the hands of the Prince Regent George IV, then went under the hammer for the debts of one of his favorites.The hope diamond named after its first known owner, a British aristocrat Henry Philip hope, in whose possession he first noticed the papers in 1839. As a rarity in purity, weight and cut, he was exhibited at the world exhibitions of 1851 and 1855 in Paris and London. Even then, there was a suspicion that the stone is from the collection of hope was obtained with cut blue diamond of the French crown (in 2008, this version has received scientific confirmation[3]).

In the late nineteenth century, the hope diamond passed by inheritance to the eldest grandson of Henry Philip hope, Henry Thomas, [en], and then to the daughter of Henry Thomas, Henrietta. The latter married Henry Pelham-Clinton, Earl of Lincoln and, later, Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne; so the stone passed into the family of the Dukes of Newcastle-under-Lyne. His last British owner, Lord Pelham-Clinton-hope, broke, and then his wife, the American actress, ran away from him with the son of the mayor of new York. Trying to satisfy the creditors, the Lord sold the diamond to the London jeweler. After passing through the hands of several dealers, the diamond in 1910, was purchased for an astronomical sum of 550 thousand francs jeweler Pierre Cartier[en], who began to spread rumors about associated with stone curse.

After a Cartier diamond owned by Evelyn Walsh McLean[en] — the daughter of the owner of the newspaper the Washington Post. On account of payment of debts after her death the stone was sold to jeweler Harry Winston[en], famous for the device "diamond balls" in the U.S. and beyond. During these colorful show about the diamond found out half of America. Finally, in November 1958, Winston sent it parcel post at the Smithsonian institution as a gift. Since then, the hope diamond remains one of the highlights of the Smithsonian exhibit.

The green diamond of Dresden

Dresden green diamond — a pear-shaped diamond natural Apple-green color. The only major (41 carats, or 8.2 g) sample of diamond of this type. From the XVIII century is kept in the Dresden Treasury "Green vault" (it. Grünes Gewölbe — The "Grunes Gewolbe").

Since 1726 has survived a letter of a certain Baron Gautier, in which the proposal of the London merchant to sell rare green diamond of Saxony elector Augustus the Strong for 30 thousand pounds[1]. The naturalist Hans Sloane had a unique copy of the stone, indicating that the original was purchased by Londoner Marcus Moses in Golconda.

When the stone struck in Saxony, is not precisely known. According to some reports, stone was bought by the son of Augustus the Strong, Augustus III, at the Leipzig fair in 1742 through the Dutch intermediary for an amount estimated by historians in 400 thousand thalers[1]. "The price of the green almond-shaped stone was equal to the cost of construction of all the Dresden Cathedral"[2].

One of the Saxon jewelers (probably, Dinglinger) put the green diamond, along with two large white (6.3 to 19.3 carats) and 411 small — agraf hat headset for the elector. In such a frame of stone and has reached our days. After the Second world war he, along with other treasures of the Dresden was in the Soviet Union. He returned to Dresden in 1958.

In 2000 he exhibited in the United States. In 2006 he exhibited in the Moscow Kremlin the exhibition "Treasury Cabinet of August the Strong"[2].

Design hours of Sevenfriday from Switzerland

We looked for to ourselves gifts for New year and found the small hour company Sevenfriday in Zurich. Her designers wanted to avoid stamps of traditional hour business and coped with this task excellently!