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The thieves tied up the staff and easily slipped away with an estimated $32m-worth of fine jewelry!

A heart-shaped diamond ring was gifted to Queen Elizabeth in 1562. Sent by Mary Queen of Scots, the ring would go down in history as a symbol of friendship between royal families.

  Fancy pink will always have a special place in everyone's heart and their rings!

  The thieves failed to hide their faces from CCTV, but that was of little consequence. They had visited a professional make-up artist prior to the robbery, who fitted them with a range of identity concealing prosthetics.

  Fast forward to 1949, Harry Winston purchased this blue diamond and donated it to the Smithsonian Institution, attracting many tourists.

They have no nitrogen impurities, as a result of which most of them are colorless. Most D flawless diamonds are of the Type IIa form. They can also be pink, gray, light blue, or light green.

  “The Sakura” was auctioned alongside “The Sweet Heart,” a 4.2-carat fancy vivid heart-shaped pink diamond ring , which sold for $6.6 million.

That beautiful white natural round stone! 🤍  

  The 18.96-carat diamond was sold for $50 million by Christie's Geneva to Harry Winston, where chief executive Nayla Hayek renamed the gem the Winston Pink Legacy.

  Today, the blue-white tinted diamond weighs an estimated 995.20 carats and remains to be the third-largest rough diamond of gem quality ever to be found.

  The Archduke Joseph Diamond was sold to an unknown bidder for $21.5 million in November 2012 by Christie’s in Geneva.

  It outweighs the Cullinan I by 15.37 carats (3.07 g).

  One of the most brazen heists on the list!

  The Jonker diamond was named after, Johannes Jacobus Jonker, who found the gemstone at the Elandsfontein mine in South Africa in 1934.

  Thanks to the rare stone used!

  And the Imperial State Crown is without a doubt a quite important thing.

The optimal ratio of length-to-width is 2:1, although a range between 1.75 and 2.25:1 is also acceptable.  

The museum includes the diamond fund, a large and unique collection of gems and jewelry, as well as natural unhandled nuggets.

A diamond is one of the rarest gems, and what makes the My Girl unique is that it can only be polished from a ‘crystal-shaped rough diamond, which in its natural form resembles two joined pyramids.

Cape Town Diamond is a little hidden gem!