The Expensive Wittelsbach Diamond

Description

The Wittelsbach-Graff Diamond is a 31.06 carats and 6.21 gram fancy deep blue diamond with inside perfect clarity. Laurence Graff acquires the Wittelsbach Diamond in 2008 for 16.4 million pounds genuine. In 2010, Graff exposed he had the diamond cut by three diamond cutters to remove defects. The diamond was at the present more than 4 carats (800 mg) lighter and was renamed the Wittelsbach-Graff Diamond. There is argument, as critics maintain the re cutting has changed the diamond as to create it unrecognizable, that its chronological honesty has been compromise.

History Of Diamond

The diamond invented from the mines of the previous Indian kingdom of Golkonda. The legend that King Philip IV of Spain acquired the jewel and incorporated it in the gift of his teenage daughter, Margaret Teresa, in 1664 is legendary. The first time the diamond was mention is about fifty years later on when it was previously in Vienna. It was in the ownership of the Habsburg relations and came to Munich when, in 1722, Maria Amalia wedded Charles of Bavaria, an associate of the Wittelsbach family. During 1958.

In its place he, the length of with dealers, buys it. The diamond had been in a confidential compilation seeing as 1964.In 1745, the Wittelsbach Diamond was first rised on the Bavarian Elector's Order of the blonde Fleece. When Maximilian IV Joseph von Wittelsbach becomes the first King of Bavaria in 1806, he specially made a royal crown, which highly displayed the diamond. Awaiting 1918, the jewel remains on the top of the Bavarian crown Jewels. It was seen last in group of people at Ludwig III of Bavaria's memorial service in 1921. The Wittelsbach relations try to put up for sale the diamond in 1931, throughout the immense despair, but establish no buyers. They ultimately sell it in 1951.

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