The Most Unique and Expensive Jewellery Pieces

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Someone has said it right that “Diamonds are a girl’s best friend”. Who doesn’t love jewellery? These big chunks of precious stones can be a prized possession in every girl’s closet. Let’s have a look at some of the world's most expensive jewellery pieces.

Diamonds, emeralds, rubies, and pearls have been adorned by kings and pharaohs for ages and symbolized their wealth and power throughout history. They are most expensive jewellery pieces in the world. These fine pieces of jewellery also educate us about the history and workmanship that went behind the making of such pieces.

Socialites like to wear these exorbitantly pricy jewels as a mark of their social status and opulence. This absurdly high price of the jewels not only depends on their size but also on the quality and shape of the jewel.

Here we have listed some of the most unique and expensive jewellery in the world.

• The Briolette Diamond Necklace

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The beautifully carved Briolette Diamond Necklace is a magnificent piece of art made out of exclusive pieces of ‘Briolette’ cut diamonds. The necklace contains an unblemished pendant of 75.36 carats of Briolette diamond with a beautiful marquise-cut pink diamond attached to it at the top. The beautiful pendant is part of a necklace chain made of Rose and White Gold and smaller pieces of Briolette diamonds. The necklace length can be adjusted and weighs about 18 carats. The diamond was put out on auction and was sold for a stooping price of $11.1 million. It is believed to be one of the top most expensive jewellery in the world.

• Wallis Simpson’s Bracelet

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Stunning and elegant, the Wallis Simpson’s bracelet with its unique shape of a panther is one of the most expensive pieces of jewellery ever. It has a royal lineage and was the prized possession of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. The Cartier-designed jewel piece raised a whopping price of $12.4 million at the auction at Sotheby’s in London. The beautiful cut-piece was designed in 1952 by Cartier Paris. The jewelry is 195 mm long and has been specially designed to take the shape of the wrist. The unique panther design is covered with single-cut diamonds and caliber-cut onyx with eyes engraved with marquise emeralds. It is said that the famous musician Madonna probably took part in the auction and is the proud owner of this striking piece of jewellery.

• Graff’s Peacock Brooch

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Ever wondered a brooch could cost a $100 million dollars? Yes, you heard it right. The much-famed Peacock brooch of the Graff diamonds comes at a staggering price of $100 million, but it’s worth every penny. Laurence Graff, the founder of ‘Graff Diamonds’ is undeniably called the ‘King of diamonds’ and the ‘Peacock Brooch’, is one of their most sought-after jewels worldwide. Beautiful and extravagant, the Peacock brooch is a work of art. The brooch was launched at the Maastricht’s TEFAF fair and was the star of the event. The brooch is made of more than 1748 diamonds and weighs around 120.81 carats with a pear-shaped deep blue diamond as the centerpiece. The blue diamond alone weighs around 20.02 carats. The dazzling jewel is an assemblage of white, pink, yellow, orange, and green diamonds with a detachable blue diamond centerpiece.

• The Hope Diamond

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The handsome grayish-blue Hope diamond is one of the world's most expensive jewels. The 45.52-carat blue diamond is known as the Hope diamond. The small trace of boron has left a rather unusual effect on the blue color of the diamond. Due to the presence of boron the diamond glows in sparkling red color in a completely dark room. Perhaps, due to this magical effect, many believe that the jewel is cursed. The pendant is surrounded by 16 white diamonds. All of the diamonds are pear-shaped and cushion cut giving it a wonderful antique look. The necklace chain holding the pendant is made of 45 white diamonds.

• The Extraordinary L’Incomparable Diamond Necklace 

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Words will fall behind to describe this flawless beauty. The L’Incomparable diamond weighs around 407.48 carats and is set on an intricate piece of 18 carats rose-gold chain. At the center of the necklace, lies the overwhelming translucent yellow cut-diamond. There are 91 more pieces of beautiful white diamonds cut in various shapes that adorn the necklace like leaves of a vine. This adds an additional weight of 200 carats to the neckpiece. The magnificent piece of yellow diamond costs about $55 million dollars and was found in Congo, Africa in 1980s.

• Blue Moon of Josephine

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The Blue Moon diamond was part of a private collection of Hong Kong billionaire Joseph Lau Luen-hung. The noble piece of the jewel was sold in Sotheby’s auction in Geneva for $48.5 million dollars. The billionaire purchased the exquisite piece for his 7-year-old daughter Josephine and later renamed it as the “Blue Moon of Josephine”. As beautiful as its name sounds, the diamond was first discovered in a mine in South Africa in 2014. Almost all diamonds unearthed in mines contain 0.1% carbon, but the Blue Moon was one such diamond that was completely flawless giving it the rare crystal blue color.