show ad The world's mos t expensive necklace - whose massive centrepiece diamond was fou nd by a little gir l on a pile of rub bish 30 years ago - is on sale for £37 m ByAnna Edwards PUBLISHED: 12:02 GMT, 4 October 2013 | UPDATED: 00:54 GMT, 5 October 2013 92 shares 17 View comments An egg-sh aped diamond, found in a lu mp of rock by a p overty-stricken African girl, has gone on sale – as the centrepiece of the w orld’s most expensive necklace. Known as L’Incomparable, the flawless yellow gem has more than 407 carats. The necklace is studded with 90 white diamonds weighing nearly 230 carats and it can be yours for£34million. Scrol l dow n for v ideo
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7/27/2019 World's most expensive necklace - whose centrepiece was found by a little girl on a pile of rubbish 30 years ago -…
The world's most expensive necklace - whosemassive centrepiece diamond was found by a
little girl on a pile of rubbish 30 years ago - is
on sale for £37m
By Anna Edwards
PUBLISHED: 12:02 GMT, 4 October 2013 | UPDATED: 00:54 GMT, 5 October 2013
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An egg-shaped diamond, found in a lump of rock by a poverty-stricken African girl, has gone on sale – asthe centrepiece of the world’s most expensive necklace.
Known as L’Incomparable, the flawless yellow gem has more than 407 carats.
The necklace is studded with 90 white diamonds weighing nearly 230 carats and it can be yours for £34million.
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The necklace, created by luxury jeweller Mouawad, will be the flashiest item on offer at
the Singapore JewelFest
The necklace' centrepiece diamond was found by chance in a pile of mining rubble by ayoung gir l in t he Democratic Republic of Congo
L’Incomparable was found in its rough state weighing 890 carats by the girl as she played in a pile of rubbleoutside her uncle’s house in the town of Mbuji Mayi in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The rubble had been legitimately collected from the nearby MIBA Diamond Mine, after being rejected.
To their eternal cost, the workers who assessed it had decided the rock was too bulky to be worth scanningfor diamonds.
But when the girl’s uncle saw the lump, he was convinced it was of value and sold it to local Africandiamond dealers for an unknown sum.
7/27/2019 World's most expensive necklace - whose centrepiece was found by a little girl on a pile of rubbish 30 years ago -…
It features a yellow, internally flawless diamond of more than 407 carats suspended from
a rose gold setting that is studded with 90 white diamonds weighing nearly 230 carats
The dealers, in turn, sold it to a group of Lebanese buyers operating from Kinshasa, Kenya.
It was later bought in Antwerp by De Beers and Sir Philip Oppenheimer, then president of the Central SellingOrganisation and a De Beers director, sold it to the Zale Corporation, a Dallas-based jewellery store chain.
It continued to grow in value until it finally went on display as a finished stone in the Natural History wing of Washington’s Smithsonian Institute.
L'INCOMPARABLE - THE STONES BEYOND COMPARE
As w ell as the huge rock, L’Incomparable also includes 35 round diamonds, 27 pear-shaped
ones, nine that are heart-shaped, five emerald-cut diamonds, five cushion diamonds, four oval
diamonds and four others
Guinness named it the world’s most valuable necklace in 2013
The egg-shaped gemstone took more than four years to polish
Its creator says the only thing the necklace lacks is to ‘grace the neck of a Queen or a very
special woman’
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Zippity Doo Dah, Zippity Day, United Kingdom, 17 hours ago
What happened to the little girl?
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Tigerpaw16, Pembroke, 17 hours ago
And I'm sure the little girl that found it 30 years ago got absolutely "nothing" for finding it. And lost all rights to it when her unclesold it to a diamond dealer. So what else is new in this unjust world?
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Justme, Schweiz, 17 hours ago
I wonder what the little girl got or if she is still playing in the rubbish????
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userpete86, IrvineCA, United States, 17 hours ago
That's a pretty rock. One day people will laugh that it cost the same purchasing power as 37 really nice homes.
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