JEWELLERY WORTH MILLIONS

THE PINK GRAFF RING

Going for $11.8 million this diamond came from the mines of South Africa.

It comes with a 5-carat pink diamond and has been mounted with Graff

diamonds to raise the price even more.

WALLIS SIMPSON’S PANTHER BRACELET

Owned by King Edward VIII at one point, this piece of jewellery was sold

for $12 million and the buyer was rumoured to be Madonna.

EMERALD AND DIAMOND TIARA

Commissioned by German Prince Guido Henckel von Donnersmarck,

he gave this tiara as a gift to his second wife Katherine in the year 1900.

There are also rumours that this tiara belonged to the wife of

Emperor Napoleon III of France. Regardless of passed ownership, however,

it contains a row of 11 polished pear shaped emeralds at about 500 carats

in total and an anonymous bidder paid $12.76 million for it.

BULGARI TWO-STONE DIAMOND RING

This easily becomes one of the most expensive rings in the world due

to the two large diamonds it contains. Created in 1972 from the Bulgari

collection, an Asian collector willingly bought the ring for $15.7 million

after an intense bidding war.

HEART OF THE OCEAN DIAMOND

Gloria Stuart wore one of the most expensive jewels ever at the 1998

Academy Awards. This Harry Winston Sapphire has an estimated price

of $20 million and is an exact replica of the piece of jewellery from the

Titanic. It is the most expensive piece of jewellery ever worn at the Oscars

and replicas are being sold for $3.5 million in auction sales.

THE WITTELSBACH-GRAFF DIAMOND

Sold for $24.3 million to Laurence Graff in 2008, it was rumoured to be the

diamond from the Indian Kingdom of Golkonda and that King Philip IV

of Spain bought it to include in the dowry of his teenage daughter,

Margaret Teresa, in the year of 1664.

THE $30 MILLION DIAMOND BIKINI

The record price for a single piece of jadeite jewellery was set at the

November 1997 Christie’s Hong Kong sale: Lot 1843, the “Doubly Fortunate”

necklace of 27 approximately .5mm jadeite beads sold for US$9.3 million.

THE GRAFF PINK

Said to be the most expensive piece of jewellery in the world, it was sold

for a staggering price of $46 million in November 2010. Famously

known as “The Graff Pink”, it is classified as a type II colour diamond

and has a perfect rating which gives it a price of about $1.85

million per carat.