They are not the first to do so.
Other jewelers, before Van Cleef & Arpels today, got their hands on rough stones, and followed their size to produce specimens capable of dazzling the crowds.
The British diamond king, Graff, thus entered the annals of jewelery in 2015, with the acquisition of the Lesedi La Rona, a rough from Botswana of 1109 carats, the second largest in the world (after the famous Cullinan of 3106 carats, discovered in 1905).
Graff had taken 67 cut stones from it, including an emerald of more than 300 carats (another record) larger than a carafe stopper.
Five years ago, we also remember Chopard and its 342-carat Queen of Kalahari, also mined in Botswana, which produced 23 cut diamonds united in a set.
More recently, Louis Vuitton got hold of, one after the other,
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