Is an expensive engagement ring an expression of your feelings or a desire to show the world your well-being? For centuries, the richest men around the world have been presenting their ladies with hearts and masterpieces of jewelry that cost fortunes.
Such a high price for jewelry does not just happen. To make exclusive jewelry, gems of unusual beauty and size are used, which are expensive. The stones are encased in a base of high-grade metals. The name of the brand creating the jewelry also plays a significant role.
The most expensive ring in the world - women's or men's?
The World's First Diamond Ring, that’s what the creators from the company called their ring Shawish. They decided to surprise the world community and not decorate their masterpiece with gems. The craftsmen took a large rough diamond and made a ring consisting entirely of one diamond.
The entire company worked for more than a year to create a jewelry masterpiece. In order to realize the plan and cut out the jewelry from a single gem in accordance with the sketches, it was necessary to use the latest laser developments. The efforts were appreciated by the public at the spring exhibition in 2011. The disadvantage is that it cannot be adjusted to size. The cost of diamond splendor is approx. 70 000 000$.
The piece of jewelry has not yet found its owner.
Top 10 most expensive rings in the world
The most expensive creations are designed to decorate the hands of representatives of the fairer sex. Therefore, the top 10 are made up of female specimens.
1. The World's First Diamond Ring. As has already been said, there is nothing more expensive than this ring on the planet.
2. Blue Diamond Ring. Company Chopard made a piece of jewelry made of platinum, which is crowned with a rare blue diamond measuring 9 carats. The jewelers gave it an impeccable oval shape, and placed a pair of smaller colorless diamonds around the edges. Since mid-2008, it has been valued at approximately $16,000,000.
3. Vivid Pink Graff Diamond Ring. The ring takes its place in the top thanks to the pink 5-carat diamond and the skill of the company’s jewelers Graff. Stones of this color usually have a gray tint, but this gem is particularly clean and transparent. The item was sold at auction for $10,800,000.
4. Blue Diamond Sotheby's Ring. The piece is distinguished by the elegance of its platinum base and the intricate emerald cut of a 7-carat blue diamond. Only stones of exceptional quality are subjected to this cut. The ring costs $7,900,000.
5. Anna Kournikova’s ring. The jewelry bears the girl’s name, since the tennis player prefers not to disclose details about the ring. It is only known that he gave it to the athlete Enrique Iglesias.The piece features an 11-carat pink pear-shaped diamond set between two small clear stones. The gift cost the singer $6,000,000.
6. Beyoncé Ring by Lorraine Schwartz. A symbol of love between Beyoncé and Jay-z was a chic piece made by jeweler Lorren Schwartz. The master decorated his masterpiece with a white diamond weighing as much as 18 carats. The frame for the stone was white gold. The rapper bought it for $5,000,000.
7. Diamond Cut Oval. The diamond ring was sold for $4,200,000 at Christie's auction house. An oval gem of extraordinary purity and impeccable shape is the main decoration of the product. The stone weighs 46.51 carats.
8. Krupp Diamond. This is an expensive piece of jewelry that has its own history. The ring belonged to the legendary Elizabeth Taylor. It was made to order and given to the actress in May 1968 by Richard Bertan. The diamond, which measures 33.19 carats, became Elizabeth's favorite piece of jewelry. The expert price of the ring is no less than $3,500,000.
In 1968, Barton purchased the Krupp Diamond for $305,000. And after the death of the actress, at an auction in 2011, the jewelry was sold for $8,818,500. The ring is often called the Elizabeth Taylor Diamond.
9. De Beers Round Brilliant Platinum. Jewelers from De Beers did not stand aside and made their contribution to the world of art in the form of a platinum ring with a 9-carat round diamond. It costs $1,830,000.
10. Nova Yellow Diamond. The copy is inferior in cost to its predecessors, but deserves attention. Set in high-grade platinum is a large yellow diamond weighing approximately 25 to 27 carats. Experts note the elegance of the ring, made by Tiffany craftsmen. The unusual decoration is valued at $1,350,000.
Najmat Taiba is an unusually sized ring that is included in the Guinness Book of Records.Its circumference is at least 2 meters and its weight is almost 64 kilograms. Only the stones decorating the marvelous work weigh 5.15 kilograms. You can buy it for $3,000,000.
Whether a solid diamond ring will remain the most unusual and expensive, or whether jewelry craftsmen will be able to come up with something more unusual, time will tell.
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