India

This beautiful diamond was originally found in India. It is bluish green in appearance and very pure in terms of clarity. It is a Mughal-cut rose shaped diamond. It is believed that the Orloff was first set as the eye of a Hindu god Vishnu’s idol, located in the innermost sanctuary of a temple in Srirangam. However, a Frenchman stole it in the 1700s and took it to Madras where he sold it for 2,000 pounds to an English sea-captain. As time passed on and the diamond changed hands, it arrived at Amsterdam where the Russian Count, Grigori Orloff was residing. He was once the lover of Empress Catherine the Great. It is said that he purchased the stone for 90,000 pounds as a gift for Catherine. Evercut diamond on the planet. It is pear shaped and has 74 facets. It was actually cut from the largest diamond crystal that was ever found – the 3,106.75 carats Cullinan crystal. It was discovered in Transvaal, South Africa in 1905 during an inspection tour of the Premier Mine. It took six months of examination to understand how it had to be divided. Eventually, it yielded about nine major and 96 smaller brilliant cut stones. It is set in the Royal Sceptre that is currently placed with the other Crown Jewels in the Tower of London, where it can be visited.

It takes nature a long time to form a pearl,and humans a little longer to culture the pearl and turn it into the object of art that we