8 most famous and graceful diamonds – their price will shock you

The Allnatt Diamond was named after the first known owner of this stone, an English major, art lover and philanthropist, Alfred Ernst Allnat.
In May 1996, the Allnat Diamond was auctioned at Christie's in Geneva and was bought for US$3,043,496 by SIBA company, which still owns the diamond today.

Previously, this stone was known as the Red Shield.
This is the largest red diamond in the world. Red diamonds are generally very rare, and they are far from easy to cut. That's why this diamond costs US$8 million!
It was discovered in the 1990s in Brazil, but was put on public display only in 2003. It weighs 5.111 carat, and it is one of the three red diamonds in the world.
The Moussaieff Red Diamond is currently exhibited at the Smithsonian museum.

The Heart of Eternity is a large diamond of the rarest deep blue color found in South Africa in 2000. The weight of the stone is 27.64 carat, which is about 5,5 grams. S. Kadri owns this beautiful stone which he bought for US$16 million.

Wittelsbach Diamond has many secrets. No one knows where it came from, who was its owner for many years and what its true price is.
According to the legend, a dark blue diamond of 35.56 carat was found somewhere in India, in Golconda Sultanate.
In 1745, when Maximilian IV Joseph von Wittelsbach became the first King of Bavaria in 1806, he commissioned a royal crown that prominently displayed the diamond till 1918. Then the diamond was considered lost for over a decade.
Since 1964, Wittelsbach was in a private collection, and on December 10, 2008, it was sold at Christie's auction for a record amount of £16.4 million sterling, or US$23.4 million. The buyer was Lawrence Graff, a British jeweler.

The Pink Star is a diamond weighing 59.60 carat (11.92 g), rated in color as Fancy Vivid Pink by the Gemological Institute of America. The Pink Star was mined by De Beers in 1999 in South Africa, and weighed 132.5 carat in the rough.
The Pink Star is the largest known diamond having been rated Vivid Pink. As a result of this exceptional rarity, the Benny Steinmetz Group called Steinmetz Diamonds took a cautious 20 months to cut the Pink. It was unveiled in Monaco on 29 May 2003 in a public ceremony.
Estimated value of this diamond is US$71.2 million.

The De Beers Centenary Diamond is the 3rd largest diamond which has been produced by De Beer’s Premier Mine.
It’s the highest grade of a diamond that colorless and weighs 273.85 carat (54.77 grams).
The diamond has never been officially estimated, but before its presentation in May 1991, it was insured for US$100 million.

The Hope Diamond is one of the most famous jewels in the world, with ownership records dating back almost four centuries. Its much-admired rare blue color is due to trace amounts of boron atoms. Weighing 45.52 carat, its exceptional size has revealed new findings about the formation of gemstones.
The Hope Diamond has long been rumored to carry a curse, possibly due to agents trying to arouse interest in the stone. It was last reported to be insured for $250 million.

Cullinan Diamond is the largest gem-quality natural diamond ever found on our planet. Extracted from a mine in South Africa on January 25, 1905, this crystal weighed 3,106.75 carat (621.35 grams). The stone was named after the owner of the mine, Sir Thomas Major Cullinan. The diamond was exceptionally clean and of white-blue in color. When cutting, it was split into 9 large parts and about 100 small fragments. As a result, nine large diamonds were obtained, named from Cullinan I to Cullinan IX, as well as 96 small diamonds. All Cullinan diamonds are now a property of the English Crown.
Its estimated price is US$400 million.