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The world's most expensive necklace - whosemassive centrepiece diamond was found by a

little girl on a pile of rubbish 30 years ago - is

on sale for £37m

By Anna Edwards

PUBLISHED: 12:02 GMT, 4 October 2013 | UPDATED: 00:54 GMT, 5 October 2013

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An egg-shaped diamond, found in a lump of rock by a poverty-stricken African girl, has gone on sale – asthe centrepiece of the world’s most expensive necklace.

Known as L’Incomparable, the flawless yellow gem has more than 407 carats.

The necklace is studded with 90 white diamonds weighing nearly 230 carats and it can be yours for £34million.

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Jessica Nasr holds the 637-carat 'L'incomparable necklace', featuring the world's largest

internally flawless diamond



The necklace has been awarded the tit le of 'Most Valuable Necklace' in the wor ld by t he

Guinness Wor ld Records



It was created by luxury jeweller Mouawad and is being offered for sale at a Singapore jewellery show.

Only serious potential buyers will get the chance to try it on.

For the L’Incomparable is protected by an army of security guards, plain-clothed supervisors, cameras, andmotion detectors.

Yet ‘serious interest’ has been shown by two potential buyers from Asia, Mouawad’s managing director Jean Nasr confirmed.

One thing is certain, the child who found it in the 1980s will never benefit. Her identity and fate remains amystery.

World's most expensive necklace to go on sale for £37m



The necklace, created by luxury jeweller Mouawad, will be the flashiest item on offer at

the Singapore JewelFest

The necklace' centrepiece diamond was found by chance in a pile of mining rubble by ayoung gir l in t he Democratic Republic of Congo

L’Incomparable was found in its rough state weighing 890 carats by the girl as she played in a pile of rubbleoutside her uncle’s house in the town of Mbuji Mayi in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The rubble had been legitimately collected from the nearby MIBA Diamond Mine, after being rejected.

To their eternal cost, the workers who assessed it had decided the rock was too bulky to be worth scanningfor diamonds.

But when the girl’s uncle saw the lump, he was convinced it was of value and sold it to local Africandiamond dealers for an unknown sum.



It features a yellow, internally flawless diamond of more than 407 carats suspended from

a rose gold setting that is studded with 90 white diamonds weighing nearly 230 carats

The dealers, in turn, sold it to a group of Lebanese buyers operating from Kinshasa, Kenya.

It was later bought in Antwerp by De Beers and Sir Philip Oppenheimer, then president of the Central SellingOrganisation and a De Beers director, sold it to the Zale Corporation, a Dallas-based jewellery store chain.

It continued to grow in value until it finally went on display as a finished stone in the Natural History wing of Washington’s Smithsonian Institute.

L'INCOMPARABLE - THE STONES BEYOND COMPARE

As w ell as the huge rock, L’Incomparable also includes 35 round diamonds, 27 pear-shaped

ones, nine that are heart-shaped, five emerald-cut diamonds, five cushion diamonds, four oval

diamonds and four others

Guinness named it the world’s most valuable necklace in 2013

The egg-shaped gemstone took more than four years to polish

Its creator says the only thing the necklace lacks is to ‘grace the neck of a Queen or a very

special woman’

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Report comment Ajhr, Gloucester, United Kingdom, 17 hours ago

Wow I always did like carats and this one is beautiful.....I'd love it but where would I wear it lol

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darkoracle, Llandrindod, United Kingdom, 17 hours ago

The relative sold i t to the diamond company? I'd be willing to bet that the little girl saw nothing from that sale.

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Jarg, Portsmouth, United Kingdom, 17 hours ago

What did the uncle sell it for I wonder?

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hereingermany, somewherethere, 17 hours ago

a single one from the smaller ones would be just fine by me :-)

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rahul, harrow, United Kingdom, 17 hours ago



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amazing

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Jacques, Mafikeng, 17 hours ago

and the young girl that picked it up?

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Zippity Doo Dah, Zippity Day, United Kingdom, 17 hours ago

What happened to the little girl?

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Tigerpaw16, Pembroke, 17 hours ago

And I'm sure the little girl that found it 30 years ago got absolutely "nothing" for finding it. And lost all rights to it when her unclesold it to a diamond dealer. So what else is new in this unjust world?

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Justme, Schweiz, 17 hours ago

I wonder what the little girl got or if she is still playing in the rubbish????

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userpete86, IrvineCA, United States, 17 hours ago

That's a pretty rock. One day people will laugh that it cost the same purchasing power as 37 really nice homes.

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