The collection composed of sixty certified fancy colour diamonds of various colours and shapes, weighing from 0.22 carat to 4.83 carats, arranged in the shape of a “nautilus” with extra sixty-two circular-cut pink and blue diamonds.
Accompanied by fifty-seven GIA reports and three HRD certificates. Available for perusal upon request.
In 1817, René Just Haüy, a French mineralogist, also known as the Father of Modern Crystallography, wrote “Gems are the flowers of the mineral kingdom…fancy colour diamonds are the orchids.” Fancy colour diamonds, like orchids, are true exotic treasures of nature. Not all coloured diamonds are created equal: coloured diamonds, which come in red, pink, purple, blue, green, yellow, black and brown, come in nine grades of colour, a system developed by the Gemological Institute of America (GIA). Colour saturation and tone ranges from “Faint”, “Very Light”, “Light” and “Fancy Light” through “Fancy”, “Fancy Dark’ and “Fancy Intense” to the top grades of “Fancy Deep” and “Fancy Vivid”. To locate a colour diamond with high colour intensity is an effort by chance rather than by choice.
Since the collector laid his hands on the first colour diamond in 1978, it has been a non-stop mission to find quality diamonds throughout his 30 years of travel around the world. The collector meticulously selects rare and exotic stones to compose a remarkable collection of colour diamonds bursting with incredible shades of pink blue, yellow and green, and all shapes and sizes including one in a shape of a “house”. The collector names this extraordinary collection as “Éternité” and arranges these 60 fancy colour diamonds in the shape of a nautilus with additional 62 small blue and pink ones. Having survived relatively unchanged for millions of years, nautiluses are often considered as