Famous Diamonds

From a Hong Kong tycoon who paid a fortune for diamonds for his young daughters, to rumours of a cursed gem, coloured diamonds are as intriguing as they are beautiful.

The Dresden White Diamond is a cushion-cut diamond with a weight of 49.71 carat. Purportedly, this is the rare Type IIa colorless diamond of D color. This is another diamond which probably came from...

The Dresden Green Diamond is perhaps the best known natural green diamond in the world. The diamond was examined by the Gemological Institute of America (GIA) in 1988. This was the rarest of the...

The Moussaieff Red Diamond is perhaps one of the biggest red diamond as graded by the Gemological Institute of America, GIA as Fancy Red.  The trillion cut diamond weighs 5.11 carat.

Usually the world’s famous diamonds are named after the discoverer, the location where it was found, a royalty or an emperor or a king or queen, or perhaps the mystery that...

The Sancy Diamond weighs 55.23 carat. The diamond is light pale yellow, and at certain angles, the stone is almost colorless with a very faint greenish-yellow tint. It has a Modified...

The Regent Diamond weighs 140.64 carat. It has a Brilliant Cushion cut. Its color can be considered whitish with a pale blue tinge. It was said that the original stone, when...

The Golconda Diamonds are diamonds from India from the geographic area in the Telangana and Andhra Pradesh States of South India. During the rule of the historic Qutb Shahi Dynasty (16th...

The White Orlov Diamond is another famous legendary diamonds that originated from the Golconda mines in India. While this diamond was not cursed in anyway that brought misfortune and ill-luck to its past various...

The Black Orlov is actually not a black diamond, but with a very deep darkish gun-metal hue and tone. However when view under normal lighting conditions the diamond looks black, as most of the...