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The bra's bedazzled bustier featured 77 carats of marquise-cut rubies and 330 carats of pear- and marquise-cut diamonds set in platinum for maximum sparkle. ... (38.25 carats) and a 101-carat ...
Cullinan V is an 18.8-carat (3.76 g) heart-shaped diamond set in the centre of a platinum brooch that formed a part of the stomacher made for Queen Mary to wear at the Delhi Durbar in 1911. The brooch was designed to show off Cullinan V and is pavé-set with a border of smaller diamonds.
In May 2009, a 7.03-carat (1.406 g) blue diamond fetched the highest price per carat ever paid for a diamond when it was sold at auction for 10.5 million Swiss francs (6.97 million euros, or US$9.5 million at the time). [59]
The carat (ct) is a unit of mass equal to 200 mg (0.00705 oz; 0.00643 ozt), which is used for measuring gemstones and pearls. The current definition, sometimes known as the metric carat , was adopted in 1907 at the Fourth General Conference on Weights and Measures , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and soon afterwards in many countries around the world.
The estimated value of Argyle diamond production was only US$7 per carat ($35/g); this compared to values of $70 per carat ($350/g) for diamonds produced at the Diavik mine and US$170 per carat ($850/g) at the Ekati mine, both in Canada. [18] However, Argyle had two to four times the concentration of diamonds (ore grade) of these mines.
The diamond was subsequently named the "Taylor Burton Diamond". [8] Burton had previously bought Taylor the 33.19-carat Krupp Diamond in May 1968 at a cost of $307,000. [11] Burton and Taylor's jewels and other investments bought by the couple were officially assets of a tax shelter established by the pair, called the Atlantic Corporation. [12]
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