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But wouldn’t a CZ of the same size and and cut look identical to the naked (layman’s) eye?
My husband has a few friends that couldn’t imagine why he wanted to marry me.
I think it’s similar.
Lid for every pot, is that the saying?
I think it’s to put a picture in.
I would bezel it and want another for an earring....but unless someone drops $80,000 in my lap I have much higher priorities. And some of them don't even involve jewelry.
I was lucky enough to to view the Jewels of the Maharaja in San Francisco last year. There were many diamonds cut just like this. They must have valued them in that fashion, but, I too, thought it looked like glass. Then again, the men wore long strands of pearls, so certainly different than our current culture jewelry trends.
Are you sure those weren’t polki diamonds? Because I know that polki as a cut (the flat uncut diamond) was extremely popular in India traditionally (have attached a picture of a pair of polki earrings to show what I mean). They are almost like rose cuts I believe but even less faceted (in the pic they have closed foil backs which is how almost all polki is/was set).
Though, polki is a lot cheaper than this diamond in the pic by OP, the diamond in the original post is obviously of super high clarity and a lot of work has gone into it to make it look like a mirror. I’m not tempted to buy though - I think 39k could buy me a whole lot of things I want much more
No, I saw a few that “looked” maybe not “cut” exactly like the OP’s photo. Either way, my mother and I both commented that they looked exactly like glass. But, perhaps my memory evades me. It was just what I was immediately reminded of when I saw the picture.