The most expensive and beautiful jewelry in the world

It has been known for a long time that women love jew­el­ry. The larg­er the gem­stone and the brighter the prod­uct, the more expen­sive it is. Wealthy con­nois­seurs of lux­u­ry items nev­er spared mon­ey for them­selves expen­sive jew­el­ry.

The wives and mis­tress­es of the rulers of many coun­tries wore diadems, rings, neck­laces, ear­rings and pen­dants made of dia­monds and emer­alds.

Many of these jew­els entered the TOP-10 and are now sold under the ham­mer at the most pres­ti­gious auc­tion hous­es in the world. They have an impres­sive his­to­ry and famous own­ers, which we will talk about in this arti­cle.

One of the most expensive pieces of jewelry in the world is Princess Catherine’s engagement ring

It was worn on the fin­ger of the Duchess of Cam­bridge, Kate Mid­dle­ton, by Prince William’s moth­er, Princess Diana. The pre­cious stone, bought by Prince Charles in 1981, is now val­ued at 10 times more expen­sive. At that time, the ring cost 28 thou­sand pounds. Today it is esti­mat­ed at 300 thou­sand pounds.

The most beautiful jewelry in the world with blue diamonds

These stones are called “mus­san­ites”. They were first found in 1893 in a mete­orite by the French sci­en­tist, Nobel Prize lau­re­ate Hen­ri Mous­sau.

The most famous blue dia­mond is the 112.25 carat Nadia rough. It was found in India and sold to Louis XIV. After pro­cess­ing, it became 67 carats. Experts con­sid­er them the most expen­sive in the world in terms of esti­mat­ed val­ue. The price of real brand­ed prod­ucts with their inserts starts at 1 mil­lion dol­lars.

One of the most expensive pieces of jewelry in the world is the Riviere necklace

Accord­ing to experts, the price of this prod­uct is about 2 mil­lion dol­lars. This neck­lace of large dia­monds belonged to the British Queen Mary — the first woman to suc­cess­ful­ly rule Great Britain.

The most expensive jewelry in the world is a gold ring from the Bulgari brand

This piece was com­mis­sioned by a well-known Euro­pean col­lec­tor and set with an extreme­ly rare blue dia­mond with the sig­na­ture engrav­ing of the Sotirio Bul­gari brand in 1984. Its price ranges from $6.08 to $30.3 mil­lion.

The cost of the most expensive diamond earrings

Apol­lo and Artemis — this was the name of the lux­u­ri­ous dia­mond ear­rings sold under the ham­mer at the Sothe­by’s auc­tion in Switzer­land. They were put up for sale for 57 mil­lion 425 thou­sand 478 US dol­lars. This is the world record for the amount spent on a pair of dia­mond ear­rings. Until now, more was paid only for one blue dia­mond.

The Apol­lo ear­ring is the most expen­sive blue dia­mond in the world, sold last year for $57.6 mil­lion.

The pink “Artemis” ear­ring cost the new own­er 15.3 mil­lion.

Togeth­er, they belong to a pair of ancient twin deities that sym­bol­ize strength and beau­ty in Greek mythol­o­gy. Although the ear­rings dif­fer in col­or, their shape and cut match.

Last year, the lux­u­ri­ous Miroir de l’Amour dia­mond ear­rings fetched $17.6 mil­lion at the Gene­va jew­el­ry auc­tion. Their name means “mir­ror of love” in French.

The most expensive antique jewelry is Marie Antoinette’s necklace

It once belonged to Marie Antoinette, daugh­ter of Empress Maria There­sa and Aus­tri­an Emper­or Fran­cis I. The val­ue of this neck­lace is esti­mat­ed at 3.7 mil­lion dol­lars.

One of the most expensive pieces of jewelry is the legendary bracelet in the form of a panther

Its own­er, Duchess Wal­lis Simp­son, who once owned the col­lec­tion the most expen­sive and lux­u­ri­ous jew­els, was a very ambigu­ous fig­ure in the British roy­al fam­i­ly. A twice-divorced woman had an affair with King Edward VIII. This emer­ald bracelet was one of his gifts. After the breakup of the rela­tion­ship, it was sold for 12 mil­lion pounds.

Among the best jewelry and decorations in the world — a ring with a green diamond

“The Green Pearl” was first pre­sent­ed at the Sothe­by’s auc­tion. This green dia­mond weighs approx­i­mate­ly 2.52 carats. The val­ue of the ring is esti­mat­ed at 3 mil­lion dol­lars.

The most beautiful jewelry of the 20th century

This title belongs to the Heart of the King­dom neck­lace and Maria Jose­fa. She was the daugh­ter of King Albert I of Bel­gium and Queen Gabriela Eliz­a­beth. In 1930, she mar­ried the Duke of Pied­mont in Rome. Her emer­ald and dia­mond neck­lace is now worth $5 mil­lion.

“Heart of the King­dom” is a mag­nif­i­cent mas­ter­piece of one of the old­est jew­el­ry hous­es, House of Gar­rard. Its main fea­ture is an inlay with a large Burmese ruby ​​weigh­ing 40.63 carats and dia­monds of 155 carats. A light move­ment of the hand — and this neck­lace becomes a tiara for an ele­gant hair­style.

The most beautiful jewelry: a diamond bikini and a Chopard watch

The leg­endary lux­u­ry watch brand Chopard has released a real mas­ter­piece of jew­el­ry art. This watch con­sists of 874 dia­monds of dif­fer­ent sizes. The largest stone weighs 15 carats. The dial opens with three large dia­monds that slide to the side. These lux­u­ry watch­es were sold to an unknown col­lec­tor for $25 mil­lion.

The dia­mond biki­ni, released in 2006, is not intend­ed for swim­ming. The author of this extrav­a­gant plat­inum acces­so­ry is design­er Susan Rosen. It con­sists of dia­monds with a total weight of 150 carats.

The most beautiful jewelry of the 21st century

So far, this title is shared by:

• exquis­ite ring “Pink Graff” set with a crys­tal clear pink dia­mond weigh­ing 25 carats. In 2010, it was sold at an auc­tion for 46 mil­lion dol­lars to the famous jew­el­ry col­lec­tor Lau­rence Graff;
• restored by mod­ern jew­el­ers tiara made of Colom­bian pearl-shaped emer­alds and dia­monds, which belonged to Princess Katha­ri­na Henkel von Don­ners­mar­ck. Before that, it was worn by Yev­ge­nia, the leg­is­la­tor of Euro­pean jew­el­ry fash­ion, the wife of Napoleon III. Today it is worth 25 mil­lion dol­lars;
• the most expen­sive in the world — lux­u­ri­ous dia­mond neck­lace with a sym­bol­ic name “Incom­pa­ra­ble” worth 55 mil­lion dol­lars. It is dec­o­rat­ed with the world’s largest inter­nal­ly flaw­less yel­low dia­mond weigh­ing 407.48 carats and small­er clear dia­monds total­ing 230 carats. It was born thanks to a lit­tle girl from the Con­go who acci­den­tal­ly found a yel­low dia­mond weigh­ing 890 carats.

The most expensive jewelry brands worn by actresses at the Oscars

• Emer­ald ear­rings and a ring from the Lor­raine Schwartz col­lec­tion, which Angeli­na Jolie wore in 2009, cost 3.5 mil­lion dol­lars. This set belongs to the cat­e­go­ry “the most expen­sive jew­el­ry“In the his­to­ry of award­ing the film award” Oscar “. This Amer­i­can actress did not dare to buy her­self dia­monds for a long time. Jolie’s 115-carat dan­gling ear­rings pair per­fect­ly with a 65-carat Colom­bian emer­ald ring.
• The Neil Lane jew­el­ry worn by Jen­nifer Lawrence at the 2014 awards cer­e­mo­ny also cost $3.5 mil­lion. In addi­tion to a 100-carat dia­mond pen­dant and a neck­lace with rhine­stones, the actress wore a chic set of 10-carat ear­rings for half a mil­lion dol­lars and a col­ored dia­mond ring for 100 thou­sand dol­lars.
• The win­ner of the Oscar 2010 for the main role in the film “The Road to Hap­pi­ness” Kate Winslet was award­ed a gold­en stat­uette in Tiffany jew­el­ry
• Char­l­ize Theron’s Oscar-win­ning look in 2013 — emer­ald-cut ear­rings from the late 1950s, a 1959 57.30-carat plat­inum bracelet and a mar­quise-cut dia­mond ring. In 2014, she wore a gor­geous Har­ry Win­ston neck­lace worth $15.8 mil­lion to the cer­e­mo­ny.
• Nicole Kid­man’s spec­tac­u­lar dia­mond neck­lace in 2008 from the L’Wren Scott brand cost $7 mil­lion. It took 7,500 dia­monds weigh­ing 1,399 carats and more than 6 mil­lion hours of work by sev­er­al famous jew­el­ers to make it by hand!
• San­dra Bul­lock­’s Lor­raine Schwartz bracelet and ear­ring set cost $8.2 mil­lion in 2014. Thanks to these acces­sories, she won the title of one of the most ele­gant­ly dressed and styl­ish stars at the gala evening.
• The Tiffany Luci­da Star neck­lace, ear­rings and ring, in which Anne Hath­away was seen in 2011, cost $10 mil­lion.
• A set of jew­el­ry from the fash­ion­able jew­el­ry house Chopard, in which Cate Blanchett received a stat­uette in 2014 for the film “Blue Jas­mine”, cost $ 18 mil­lion. It con­sists of stun­ning long white opal ear­rings by Chopard, an open­work bracelet and a mas­sive dia­mond ring.

How­ev­er, the unde­ni­able title “the most beau­ti­ful jew­el­ry in the world»Owns a blue dia­mond Heart of the Ocean neck­lace from the famous Har­ry Win­ston col­lec­tion. Glo­ria Stew­art starred in it in the movie “Titan­ic” in 1998. Its cost is 20 mil­lion dol­lars.

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