The extravagant piece of jewelry known as L'Incomparable has an egg-sized yellow stone often called 'The Golden Giant' suspended from a rose gold setting with 90 white diamonds. It weighs a whopping 637 carats.

Awarded Most Valuable Necklace in the world—Guinness World Records 2013. L’Incomparable features the world's largest internally flawless diamond—the 407.48 Incomparable Diamond.

Sometimes destiny is found on the road intended to avoid it. This truth could not be better illustrated than through the serendipitous journey of the Incomparable Diamond—the world's largest, internally flawless diamond, whose journey began in the Congo over thirty years ago when it was discovered by a young girl from a discarded pile of kimberlite—an igneous by-product of diamond mining. This almost missed, one-of-a-kind yellow diamond once honoured by the Smithsonian is now the centrepiece in Mouawad's Incomparable Diamond Necklace.

 

全球最貴的項鍊有多貴？答案是5,500萬美元（約合新台幣16億元）。

這條被命名為「L’Incomparable」的項鍊，由瑞士的奢華珠寶品牌莫懷德（Mouawad）所設計推出，以一顆重達407克拉、精透無瑕的黃色鑽石做為主鑽，再搭配上90顆較小、總重近230克拉的白色鑽石組成，光看外觀就知道這條項鍊身價非凡。

根據英國每日郵報（Daily mail）報導，這條「L’Incomparable」項鍊目前正在新加坡的珠寶展進行拍賣，儘管這條項鍊要價不斐，但仍有許多有錢有勢的人正虎視眈眈的要收藏項鍊，因此在拍賣會結束後，「L’Incomparable」要再翻漲一倍也不無可能。

據說，這條項鍊的超大主鑽是在1980年代時，從一位剛果民主共和國的小女孩手中發現，當時這位小女孩家境貧困，且並不知道她手中握有的石頭能讓她永遠脫離貧窮。

儘管小女孩的叔叔認為這可能不是塊普通的石頭，他也特地找來了鑑定師來鑑定，但因為鑑定師的疏忽，讓小女孩的叔叔被說服這塊石頭沒有特別的價值，便以極低的價錢賣給了非洲的鑽石商。這位小女孩仍沒有從這顆鑽石或得任何利益，至今她仍然身分未明，也無從得知她是否還健在。

2013-10-06