They are not the first to do this. Other jewelers, up until today Van Cleef & Arpels, got their hands on rough stones and following their dimensions produced designs that could dazzle a crowd. British diamond king Graff thus entered jewelery annals in 2015 when he acquired the Lesedi La Rona, a 1,109-carat rough from Botswana, the second largest in the world (after the famous 3,106-carat Cullinan, discovered in 1905 in 2015). : Graff pulled 67 cut stones, including an emerald weighing more than 300 carats (still a record) larger than a jar stopper. Five years ago, we also remember Chopard and its 342-carat Queen of the Kalahari, also mined in Botswana, which produced 23 cut diamonds in the combined set. Recently, Louis Vuitton acquired two extremely rare pieces back-to-back, first with a fine (and unique) layer of 1,758-carat black carbon, then a 549-carat…
Source: Le Figaro
