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Alex Ghotbi Country: France Location: Behind my computer Favorite Saying: «Some mistakes are too much fun to only make once» Posts: 5609 Registered: Mar 16, 2007 Private Message |
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Erratum, it was called Kallista and not Kalla, made in 1979 after(View entire thread)January 14, 08 08:27 almost 2 years of work it consists of 118 emerald cut diamonds for over 60 carats.
The "unofficial" story is that a jeweler had actually bought through time exceptional emerald cut diamonds in view of making something exceptional but since business was bad VC offered the jeweler to borrow the diamonds and set them in a wrist watch with the obligation of not re cutting the diamonds.
Once the watch finished it was to be shown to a king in the Gulf region but the 2nd oil crisis breaks out and the project falls appart. The loan period drawing to an end with no clients in sight (the watch at the time, 1979, was estimated at over $5 million!!) the team at VC with a heavy heart was ready to take the diamonds appart and return them when the proverbial knight shows up at the last minute and saves the show. Contractually VC is not allowed to disclose the name of the owner but rumor has it that the watch never left Geneva and is in fact in a vault.
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