Top 10 | Most Beautiful and Famous Diamonds in the World

Oh welcome to my channel where I provide some of my favorite top ten videos let's dive into the wonders of jewelry collection their story history rarity and Providence on today's video we're going to talk about the famous and historical Condit diamonds and yes I will show you some of the famous diamonds in the world that belongs or was taken from the mines of golconda but first let's find out where is Golconda the land of diamonds the Golconda diamonds are indian diamonds mined in a specific geographic area in the present-day Telangana and Andhra Pradesh states of South India during the rule of the historic cut Shahi dynasty 16th century 17th century CE also known as the Golconda Sultanate diamonds from these mines especially collar mine were transported to the city of Hyderabad to be cut polished evaluated and sold Golconda in Hyderabad established itself as a diamond trading centre and until the end of the 19th century the Golconda market was the primary source of the finest and largest diamonds in the world thus the legendary name Golconda diamond became synonymous with Golconda itself one of the most popular diamond mines was collar mine presently in Gunter district andhra pradesh there were also other mines around the river krishna in south india along with diamonds the region also became a trade center for metal where pearls spices and textiles according to the New Indian Express 22 October 2016 the Hyderabad based historian Mohammed Safi Allah says such was the trade that the estimated output from all mines in Golconda was estimated to be around 12 million carats now here are some of the most famous diamonds from Golconda the Jacob diamond also known as the Imperial or Victoria diamond is a colorless Golconda diamond ranked as the fifth biggest polish diamond in the world the last nism of the Hyderabad State Mir Osman Ali Khan found the diamond in the toe of the shoe of his father maboob Ali Khan at chowmahalla palace and used it as a paperweight for a long time it was bought by the Government of India for an estimated 13 million dollars in 1995 it is cut in a rectangular cushion cut with 58 facets and measures thirty-nine point five millimeters long twenty-nine point two five millimeters wide and twenty-two point five millimeters deep the diamond weighs 180 4.75 carats 30 6.90 grams currently it is kept at the Reserve Bank of India vaults in Mumbai as part of the nism jewelry exhibition in 2001 and 2007 the jacob diamond was a major attraction at sailor young museum hyderabad before it was sent to europe to be cut the uncut diamond is believed to have been over 400 carats 80 grams in weight the diamond was put up for sale in 1891 by Alexander Malcolm jacob hence the name it was offered to Mahbub Ali Khan the sixth nism of hyderabad initially the nism was quite uninterested in the diamond and offered a mere 46 lakhs for million rupees for it the nism was asked to make a good-faith deposit if he was to go through with the transaction the European jewel cutters did not like this offer but were forced into court when they lost track of the Nizam's deposit ultimately the nism was awarded the diamond for almost half of his original offer 23 lakhs 2.2 million rupees ninth on the list is the princi diamond which is approximately thirty four point six five carats cushion cut fancy intense pink diamond the diamond was discovered about 300 years ago in the Golconda mines long before it was known as the princi or by any other name that belonged to the royal family nism x' of hyderabad its first known owners the then dyzma of hyderabad had it auctioned in 1960 at Safa Bea's it was bought by the London branch of the jeweler's Van Cleef and Arpels for forty six thousand British pounds it was then sent to their Paris store where it was named Prince II by Pierre our peoples in honor of the fourteen-year-old son of sita devi the Maharani of Baroda say a girag ecwid 1945 1985 the diamond had not gone to an auction or been seen in public since 1960 the Gemological Institute of America characterizes the princi diamond as fancy intense pink natural color vs to clarity type eeeh the princi diamond is at this time the largest Golconda type fancy intense pink diamond ever to be graded at the Gemological Institute of America the princi also has the property that when exposed to ultraviolet light it displays bright orange-red fluorescence according to the Gemological Institute of America this kind of reaction to ultraviolet light is typical of diamonds of Indian origin of more than 7 million diamonds that have gone through the Gemological Institute of America's laboratory no more than 40 exhibited this phenomenon and the princi is the largest pink diamond that possesses it it was auctioned by Christie's in New York on 16 April 2013 for what was a record-breaking price and was expected to sell for more than 45 million dollars in the event it only fetched 39 point three million dollars which is still a record-breaking price at that time it sets the record for being the most valuable Golconda mine diamond ever sold at auction and the highest price for any jewel sold at Christie's surpassing the previous house record of 24 point four million dollars set in December 2008 with the sale of the wittelsbach diamond next on the list is the Florentine diamond a lost diamond of Indian origin it is light yellow in color with very slight green overtones that is cut in the form of an irregular although very intricate 9 sided 100 26 facet double rows cut with a weight of one hundred thirty-seven point two seven carats 27.45 four grams the stone is also known as the Tuscan the Tuscany diamond the Grand Duke of Tuscany the Austrian diamond and the Austrian yellow diamond documented history begins when jean baptist Tavernier the French jeweler and traveler saw the stone among the possessions of ferdinando ii de Medici Grand Duke of Tuscany in 1657 it then passed into the hands of the Hapsburgs when the last of the medicines died through the marriage of Francis the 3rd Stefan of Lorraine to Empress Maria Theresa of Austria and was placed in the Habsburg crown jewels in the half bird in Vienna at the time it was valued at $750,000 after the fall of the Austrian Empire during World War one the stone was taken by Charles the first of Austria into exile in Switzerland the stone was stolen sometime after 1918 by a person close to the imperial family and taken to South America with other gems of the crown jewels after this it was rumoured that the diamond was brought into the United States in the 1920s and was recut and sold and some believe that it is known now as the famous Tiffany yellow diamond The Dresden green diamond also known as Dresden green is of 41 carats 8.2 grams natural green diamond which probably originated in the collar mine in the state of Andhra Pradesh in India The Dresden green is a rare type to a with a clarity of vs1 and it is said to be potentially internally flawless if slightly recut it is named after Dresden the capital of the German state of Saxony where it has been undisplaced of the last two centuries today the diamond is shown in the new green vault at Dresden Castle The Dresden green diamond has a historical record dating back to 1720 to when a London news sheep carried an article about it in its 25 October 27th edition it was acquired by Augustus 3 of Poland from a Dutch merchant in 1742 at the leipzig fair in 1768 the diamond was incorporated into an extremely valuable hat ornament surrounded by two large and 411 medium-sized and small diamonds this is the setting that the dresden green still appears today in 2000 American jewelry firm Harry Winston arranged to display the Dresden green at the New York flagship store and then at the Smithsonian in Washington DC United States where it was displayed in the Harry Winston Pavilion next to the largest blue diamond in the world the Hope Diamond sixth on the list is the archduke joseph diamond a colorless antique cushion-shaped brilliant originally weighing seventy eight point five four carats purchased by Molina Jewelers of Arizona sometime in the late 1990s and slightly recut to three point four five carat to improve clarity and symmetry it is on the Gemological Institute of America gia color and clarity scales a degrade colorless to the highest grade if internally flawless flawless to the second highest grade diamond in short a different and the largest if ever graded at the gia hand it is of type 2a as determined by the gooble and gem lab of Lucerne Switzerland archduke joseph originated in india's Golconda mines it was named after archduke joseph august of austria its first recorded owner who had it deposited in the vault of the hungarian general credit bank on 1st June 1933 in the presence of a state councillor this was the first record of the existence of the archduke joseph diamond how it made its way into the ownership of archduke joseph august of austria is not known in 1936 it was sold to an anonymous buyer who is believed to have been a European banker and kept in France locked away in a safe-deposit box where it remained undiscovered from the German occupation powers during World War two it surfaced at auction but not sold in 1961 in London and again at Christie's in Geneva on November 1993 on November 13 2012 Archduke Joseph seventy six point oh two carats was sold for more than twenty million Swiss franc 21 million four hundred seventy four thousand five hundred twenty-five dollars including commission at Christie's auction house by Alfredo J Molina chairman of california-based jeweler black star and frost - an anonymous bidder the price was six million dollars above the fifteen million dollars pre-sale estimate and more than three times the price of 6.5 million dollars it reached when it was last sold in 1993 the price fetched was a world record for a Golconda diamond and a world record price per carat for a colorless diamond at that time great mogul is believed to have been discovered around 1650 most probably around collar mine in the Golconda region of southern India Tavernier described the diamond as the stone is of the same form as if one cut an egg through the middle around 1665 the Shahs son Aurangzeb showed the stone to the famous jeweler and world traveler Jean Baptiste Tavernier at that time Tavernier wrote in his six voyages the first piece that aquel con chief keeper of the Kings jewels placed in my hands was the great diamond which is rose cut round and very high on one side on the lower edge there is a slight crack and the little flaw in it its water is fine and weighs 319 1/2 Rattus which makes 280 of our carats the rowdy being th of a carat later the great mogul diamond was transferred to latter sabha and became part of the spoils of war when Mol India was invaded and latter and then Delhi sacked by the Persian ruler Nader Shah Nader Shah returned with the stone to his home in Isfahan in 1739 from the Nawabs of Punjab however nader Shahs ownership proved shorted lifts he was assassinated in 1747 and the stone disappeared and in 1774 a diamond described by jean Baptist appeared in the Kremlin crown jewel Catherine the Great of Russia named at Orlov diamond it was encrusted into the Imperial scepter of Russian Empress there were no records of the original weight of the Orlov diamond but estimation was made by Lord Twinings book a history of the crown jewels of Europe mentions how once during a circa 1913 inspection of the crown jewels by the curator the stone accidentally fell out of its scepter he weighed the stone but did not write down its exact weight he later said that it was about 190 carats 38 grams which corresponds to the measurement based estimate currently the Orlov diamond displayed as a part of the collection of the diamond fund of the Moscow Kremlin during my studies in the history of these famous diamond I have concluded that the Orlov diamond and the great mole diamond is one the derry-o I newer which means sea of light and Persian is one of the largest cut diamonds in the world weighing an estimated 180 to carats 36 grams it's color pale pink is one of the rarest to be found in diamonds the derry-o I knew is in the Iranian crown jewels of Central Bank of Iran in Tehran this diamond like the koh-i-noor was mined in Vijayanagara India it was originally owned by the kakatiya dynasty later it was looted by the khalji dynasty and to mol emperors in 1739 Nader Shah of Iran invaded northern India occupied Delhi has payment for returning the crown of India to the mole Emperor Mohammed he took possession of the entire fabled Treasury of the moles including the dariya I newer in addition to the co I newer and the Peacock Throne after nader Shahs death in 1747 the diamond was inherited by his grandson cherrick Mirza from there it fell into the hands of the lawfully calm after laughs Ali Khan's defeat at the hands of Mohammed Khan cager who established the ruling cager dynasty of Iran the dariya I nure entered the cager Treasury during this time nasir al-din shah cager was said to be very fond of the diamond often wearing it as an armband a gret or a brooch and maintenance of the diamond was an honor bestowed upon high-ranking individuals the diamond currently resides with the National jewels of Iran the original wittelsbach diamond also known as der Blois Wittelsbach er was a 35.56 carat 7.1 1/2 grams fancy deep a greyish blue diamond with vs2 clarity that had been part of both the Austrian and the Bavarian crown jewels its color and clarity had been compared to the Hope Diamond the Diamond originates from the caller minds of Gunter district in andhra pradesh india the story that King Philip the fourth of Spain purchased a jewel and included it in the dowry of his teenage daughter Margaret Theresa in 1664 is apocryphal the first time the diamond was mentioned is about fifty years later when it was already in Vienna it was in the possession of the Habsburg family and came to Munich when in 1722 Maria Amalia married Charles of Bavaria a member of the wittelsbach family in 1745 the Wittelsbach diamond was first mounted on the Bavarian electors order of the Golden Fleece when Maximilian the fourth Joseph von wittelsbach became the first King of Bavaria in 1806 he commissioned a royal crown that prominently displayed the diamond until 1918 the jewel remained on top of the Bavarian crown it was seen last in public at love week the third of Bavaria's funeral in 1921 on 10 December 2008 the 35.56 carat wittelsbach diamond was sold to london-based jeweler Lawrence Graf for twenty three point four million dollars at the time the highest price ever paid at auction for a diamond in June 2011 Graf apparently sold the diamond to the former a mere of Qatar Hamad bin Khalifa for at least 80 million dollars second on the list is the Regent diamond a 140 1.64 carat diamond owned by the French state an on display in the Louvre worth as of 2015 48 million pounds it is widely considered the most beautiful and purest diamond in the world according to one rumor in 1698 a slave found the 410 carats uncut diamond in the collar mine in the Gunter district of Andhra Pradesh India and hid it inside a large wound in his leg an English sea captain stole the diamond from the slave killed him and sold it to an Indian merchant Sir Thomas Pitt the Governor of Fort st. George claimed he acquired the diamond from the eminent Indian diamond champion for 48,000 pagodas the pagoda was a unit of currency a coin made of gold or half gold minted by Indian dynasties as well as the British the French and the Dutch he dispatched the stone to London hidden in the heel of his son Roberts shoe aboard the East Indiaman loyal cook which left Madras on 9 October 1702 it was later cut in London by the diamond cutter Harris between 1704 and 1706 the cutting took two years and cost about five thousand pounds after many attempts to sell it to various members of European royalty including louis xiv of france it was purchased by the french regent philippe the second Duke of Orleans the stone was set into the crown of Louis the 15th for his coronation in 1722 and then into a new crown for the coronation of louis xvi and 1775 it was also used to adorn a hat belonging to marie antoinette in 1792 during the revolutionary furor in paris low regent or the regent diamond was stolen along with other crown jewels of france but was later recovered in 1801 the gem was being permanently redeemed by napoleon bonaparte and used it for the pommel of his sword napoleon's second wife Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria carried the region back to Austria upon his exile later her father returned it to the French crown jewels the diamond was mounted successively on the crowns of louis xviii charles the 10th and Napoleon the third today mounted in a Greek diadem designed for Empress Eugenie it remains in the French royal treasury at the Louvre it has been on display there since 1887 first on the list are the two famous diamond in the world the Hope Diamond with ownership records dating back almost four centuries that's much admired rare blue color is due to trace amounts of boron atoms weighing 45.5 to carats it's exceptional size has revealed new findings of the formation of gemstones and the koh-i-noor is one of the largest cut diamonds in the world weighing 105 point six carats 21 point one two grams currently it is part of the British crown jewels and is disputed by the Indian government for its return I will not go into further details of the history of these two diamonds since I already detailed them in my previous videos they both amazing in priceless diamonds and they set a standard for what diamond quality should be it was a pleasure sharing the stories of these amazing diamonds thank you for watching and please don't forget to subscribe [Music]

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Length: 18min 27sec (1107 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 08 2019