Diamonds are the most unmatched and expensive stones. We picked up for you twenty "best friends of girls", from which it is difficult to look away.
Meet the selection of the most beautiful and expensive diamonds in the world, whose brilliance is truly dazzling. Let's start with the bottom step of our top.
20. Diamond Moussaieff Red Diamond
The rarest red diamond was found by the Brazilian farmer in 1990. He was recognized as the largest red diamond. The weight of this gem is 5.11 carats, and the estimated value is more than 7 million dollars.
19. Brilliant Elizabeth Taylor
The world famous actress received a gorgeous ring with a diamond in 1968, which was later sold in 2011 for auction at $ 8.8 million.
18. Diamond Taj Mahal
The smart diamond Taj Mahal in the form of a heart in a gold frame was bought for 8.8 million dollars with a hammer.
17. Brooch of the Empress Eugenia
The unique brooch, strewn with diamonds and framed with silver and gold, belonged to the wife of Napoleon III. Its cost experts estimated at 10.5 million dollars.
16. Brilliant A drop of the sun
This truly huge yellow diamond at 110.03 carats in 2011 in Geneva was sold for 12.4 million dollars. It has a unique purity, transparency and record-breaking weight for natural diamonds.
15. Diamond Fantasy bright blue
Brilliant bright blue with an emerald cut of 8.01 carats, is the rarest representative. In 2012, at the Hong Kong auction, it was sold for 12.8 million dollars.
14. Diamond Pink Clark
Another rare diamond of a single color of 9 carats was bought from an auction by the owner of one of the largest corporation for $ 15.7 million.
13. Diamond Chloe
A colorless transparent diamond of 84.37 carats of unique rare purity has an ideal cut. In 2007 this stone of the highest quality was sold for a huge amount of money at that time - 16.2 million dollars.
12. Diamond Graff Vivid Yellow
In May 2014, at the Geneva auction, a huge and beautiful diamond of yellow color, Graff Vivid Yellow, was bought for $ 16.5 million. Its weight was at the time of sale of 100.09 carats.
11. Brilliant Star of the season
A colorless and transparent diamond, resembling a pear shaped, weighs 100.1 carats. He was bought at a Geneva auction in 1995 by a jeweler collector, a sheik from Saudi Arabia, for $ 16.5 million. After that, he was offered a much larger sum for him, but the true collector rejected the offer.
10. Brilliant Martian Pink
This diamond is one of the rarest pink representatives, its weight is 12.04 carats, and it was bought in Hong Kong at auction by the buyer, who wished to remain anonymous, for $ 17.4 million.
9. Brilliant Archduke Joseph
The oldest brilliant of the highest quality of 76.02 carats was sold in 2012 at the Geneva auction for 21.48 million dollars to an anonymous buyer. The stone was first registered with the first owner almost a hundred years ago in 1919, during which time it was sold several times, and the last date of sale was fixed in 2012.
8. White diamond in emerald cut
The weight of this chic white diamond is 100 carats, its transparency can be compared to pure spring water. In 2015, the gem was sold to an anonymous buyer by phone for $ 22.1 million.
7. Diamond Perfect Pink
The diamond, set in a ring, weighing 14.23 carats of natural pink color, was sold for a record amount for Asia at an auction in Hong Kong for 23.2 million dollars.
5. Brilliant The Legacy of Winston
Transparent and colorless diamond in the shape of a pear - one of the largest diamonds that ever put up for auction. Its weight is 101.73 carats. In 2013, it was bought for 26.7 million dollars by the jewelry company "Harry Winston", so the diamond was named after its owner.
6. Blue Diamond De Beers Millenium
Heavenly color of a brilliant quality of 10.1 carats in 2016 was bought in Hong Kong for $ 30 million.
4. Diamond Pink Graff
A quadrangular pink diamond in the ring was sold in 2010 to the famous jeweler-collector Laurence Graff for $ 46.16 million.
3. Mouawad L'Incomparable
One of the most expensive diamond necklaces in the world, which was even recorded in the Guinness Book of Records, is estimated at 55 million dollars. Weight of 103 diamonds present on it is 637 carats.
2. Diamond Pink Star
This diamond is considered the most expensive pink diamond with a record high weight for its variety - 59.6 carats. In 2013, this precious stone broke all price records of diamonds and was sold at an auction Sotheby's for a fabulous $ 83 million. Later it became known that the buyer could not redeem the stone and Sotheby's bought it for himself for $ 72 million.
1. Diamond Wittelsbach-Graff
The winner of our rating, the most expensive and beautiful diamond in the world was a blue diamond of 31 carats Wittelsbach-Graff, which in 2011 was sold at auction for 80 million dollars.