Jewelry has a significant role in many cultures and civilizations. It has numerous applications and can have great worth beyond its simply financial aspects. Throughout the beginning of time, necklaces have been a popular jewelry item, and they will remain so long after we are gone.
In many cultures and in many civilizations, jewelry plays an important role. They have several applications and occasionally hold significant worth that goes far beyond their purely financial merits. While many individuals across different religions buy and wear jewelry in an effort to decorate themselves and appear more sophisticated, others do so because jewelry is crucial to their worldview. However it may be, one thing always remains. Jewelry is so exquisite and priceless that in some cases, it can be compared to money.
List Of Top 10 Most Expensive Jewelries In The World 2024
1. The Hope Diamond – $200- $250 Million
The jewelry is a stunning 45.52-carat deep-blue diamond set in a diamond-studded necklace that is estimated to be worth between $200 and $250 million. The Golkonda mines in Southern India are where the diamond is said to have originated. Numerous well-known people from over the world have decorated it.
2. A Heritage in Bloom – $200 Million
Wallace Chan, a renowned craftsman from China, created the design.
The entire combination weighs 383.4 carats in total, with the magnificent center colorless diamond alone being worth an astounding $35 million. The necklace also includes 19 additional exquisite colorless diamonds, 114 ice-green jadeites, 72 white mutton fat jades, and 600 pink diamonds. All these lovely stones add up to a substantial half-pound weight for the necklace.
The necklace also features a modular construction that allows for 27 different ways to wear it.
3. Peacock Brooch -$100 million
On display at the 2013 TEFAF luxury arts and antiques market in the Netherlands, Graff Diamonds debuted the Peacock Brooch. The 1,305 gemstones used in its construction include white, yellow, pink, orange, and green diamonds.
The piece of jewelry also features a stunning blue diamond that is 20.02 carats in total weight. The Peacock Brooch is only 10 cm tall, but it costs $100 million.
4. Wittelsbach-Graff Diamond -$80 million
This 35.56-carat diamond, according to the legend, belonged to King Philip IV of Spain and was presented to his daughter Margarita Teresa as part of her dowry for her marriage to Emperor Leopold I of Austria in 1664.
The Wittelsbach diamond, which had long been a component of the Austrian and Bavarian crown jewels, was purchased for $22 million and recut to 31.06 carats by renowned jeweler Laurence Graff. He resold the diamond in 2011 for an astounding $80 million to a member of Qatar’s royal family.
5. The Pink Star -$71.2 million
The largest “internally flawless, fancy vivid pink” diamond ever appraised by the GIA is this 59.6 carat fancy vivid pink stone, formerly known as the Steinmetz Pink. The Pink Star, currently weighing 132.5 carats, was first cut and polished in 1999 and was mined by De Beers in Africa.
It brought in $71.2 million at a Sotheby’s auction in April 2017, making it the most expensive gem ever sold at auction.
6. Oppenheimer Blue -$57.5 million
The 14.62 carat Oppenheimer Blue diamond carries the name of its original owner. In May 2016 during a Christie’s auction, it actually stunned the audience. It sold for $57.5 million, a price record for an emerald-cut stone of that value.
7. L’Incomparable Diamond Necklace -$55 Million
The largest internally perfect diamond in the world is the centerpiece of the most expensive necklace ever made by jeweler Mouawad. The 407-carat diamond is suspended from a rose gold chain with 230 carats worth of smaller diamonds. This magnificent object has a staggering total weight of 637 carats. On our list of the most expensive jewelry ever manufactured, it comes in at number seven. A young girl is credited with discovering the center diamond in a pile of mining trash in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the 1980s. The “Incomparable’s” main stone hangs from the stem, giving it a vine-like appearance. This necklace is precious due to its distinctive, asymmetrical, irregular design and fascinating tale.
8. Blue Moon Of Josephine -$48.4 Million
2014 saw the initial discovery of the 12.03-carat Blue Moon diamond in the Cullinan mine in South Africa. It weighs 12 carats and cost the criminal $48.4 million, the highest price ever paid per carat for a diamond of any color. It was purchased for Hong Kong millionaire Joseph Lau Luen-daughter hung’s Josephine, age 7, for whom he named the stone.
9. Pink Emerald-Cut Graff Diamond -$46.2 Million
In 2010, a magnificent 24.78-carat vibrant pink diamond smashed auction records when it was sold to jeweler Laurence Graff for $46.2. After buying the diamond from Harry Winston, who had previously held it and had kept it in his personal collection for many years, Graff recut and renamed it.
This piece of jewelry stands out because of its elegant emerald cut, which has a specific purity that is typically found in white diamonds and a lovely color.
10. The Orange – $36 Million
It was by far the largest fancy vibrant orange diamond ever sold in this way when it was purchased at Christie’s Geneva auction in November 2013. Naturally, it too was presented with a record-breaking offer, rising to an astounding $35.5 million, far in excess of its estimated value of $21 million.
