strand necklace. The strands are joined by a cushion-cut diamond signed by Cartier. It was sold by Christie’s for a whopping $7.1 Million in 2007 to an anonymous buyer.

2 LaPeregrina Pearl || Valued at $11.8 Million

The beautiful La Pelegrina weighs 56 carats and is fully pear shaped, which is a rare occurrence. There are intriguing stories and historical events that lie behind it. As it happened in the mid-16th century, this beautiful pear shaped pearl was found by an African slave on the coast of a Spanish colony called Santa Margarita. At that time, King Philip the second gifted the pearl to Mary the first, for his proposal. After she passed away, the pearl was duly returned to the Crown of Spain. A hundred years later, the Battlecontinuum of material substances with touch, this continuum is not available all at once. Touch is confined at any given time to the touching surface of the body. The untouched – about-to-be-touched or having-been-touched – surfaces exist only as possible sources of touch. What a difference from vision, where all the visibilia in a visual field exist in an instantaneous relationship with one another and form a continuum of the visible and the visibly invisible, of what we can see and what we can see that we cannot see.

All of this gives me a sense of the object in itself, as being distinct from myself and it belongs to a visual field in which it is related to other objects. The actual distance between our eyes, ourselves, and