The white gold and zirconia prop used in the movie cost around $8,000 but if it were real at 56 carats, it would be valued at more than twice what the Hope Diamond is. Leave it up to Hollywood to invent fictional jewelry and then assign a value it.
What does this mean? They had jewelers create a bespoke (non-diamond) necklace, but it had to be good quality because of the close-ups they wanted to do with it. As for “assigning it a value”, isn’t that just what people are willing to pay? $8,000 for a one-of-a-kind piece of jewelry and cinema history doesn’t seem too crazy to me…
The value of the prop used in the movie notwithstanding, a quick search suggested that a real 56 carat diamond with qualities and rarity similar to the Hope Diamond would be worth close to $600 million, but no such thing actually exists.
So what I meant was: of course Hollywood has to come up with the ultimate jewel “worth more than the Hope Diamond”, to quote the movie.
What does this mean? They had jewelers create a bespoke (non-diamond) necklace, but it had to be good quality because of the close-ups they wanted to do with it. As for “assigning it a value”, isn’t that just what people are willing to pay? $8,000 for a one-of-a-kind piece of jewelry and cinema history doesn’t seem too crazy to me…
The value of the prop used in the movie notwithstanding, a quick search suggested that a real 56 carat diamond with qualities and rarity similar to the Hope Diamond would be worth close to $600 million, but no such thing actually exists.
So what I meant was: of course Hollywood has to come up with the ultimate jewel “worth more than the Hope Diamond”, to quote the movie.
Could they make a big diamond in a lab?