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Human beings have always been drawn to beautiful and sparkling things. Since ancient times, as our ancestors discovered each different gemstone, they would recognise their special or unique features and categorise them into hierarchies of beauty, healing or talismanic properties and power. Diamonds were ranked at the top of all-natural gemstones due to their unparalleled hardness and scintillating brilliance, their ability to refract white light into its spectral colours. The very word “Diamond”, derived from the ancient Greek word “Adamas”, meaning “unconquerable”, speaks of the awe and superiority with which diamonds have always been regarded. White (colourless) diamonds are undoubtedly beautiful, however, when the diamonds are any shade of pink, from soft, pastel pink to vibrant, rich pink, it adds an extra dimension and the Beauty is taken to another level.
Since antiquity, Pink Diamonds have been revered as almost miraculous because there were always so few of them. The recovery from a mine of a diamond with even the merest hint of pink colour was greeted with excitement and awe and reserved for sale or to be offered as a gift to the most wealthy and influential individuals of the time. Destined to be set in Crown Jewels, or to become the treasured heirlooms of noble families, sometimes to be traded by the most famous merchants. Pink diamonds have always been extremely sought after and valuable because they were recognised for being so very Rare.
This combination of Beauty and Rarity has in modern times become synonymous with Australian Argyle Pink Diamonds. “Argyle’s magnificent Pink Diamonds, which have their home in the remote and hauntingly beautiful landscape of the East Kimberley region of Western Australia, have played an extraordinary role in the diamond world”. This is no understatement, for the Argyle mine is the source of more than 90 Percent of the world’s Pink Diamonds and is renowned for the richness, strength and purity of their colour. More than any other, the beauty, rarity and mystique surrounding Argyle Pink Diamonds are responsible for generating the present-day interest in all-natural coloured diamonds.
Top 10
10) Le Grand Mazarin $14 Million
9) The Spirit of the Rose $27 Million
8) The Sweet Josephine Diamond $ 28.5 Million
7) The Sakura $ 29.3 Million
6) The pink promise $32 Million
5) The Princie Diamond $39 Million
4) The Graff Pink $46 Million
3) The Pink Legacy $50 Million
2) The Pink Star $71 Million
1) Daria-i-Noor $279 Million
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