Where can visitors see the Blue Heart Diamond?
It’s displayed with several other diamonds. There’s no other place I know of in the world that you can see a large blue diamond on public display, much less see two. We happen to have the two largest, finest blue diamonds in the world. Tell me about the Portuguese Diamond. We also have the largest faceted diamond in our collection: 127.01 carats. At that size, that .01 becomes important. It is a stone that unfortunately has the name “The Portuguese Diamond.” That name was given to it by Harry Winston. We acquired that diamond from Harry Winston by exchanging a bunch of smaller cut diamonds for that one larger stone. He spun a story about this diamond having come out of Brazil and had been owned by the Portuguese royal family, hence the name Portuguese Diamond. Well, in fact, we know now that this diamond has never been to Portugal, has never been to Brazil, but in fact came out of South Africa, out of the Premiere Mine. It was mined about 1910. Who owned the diamond? It was sold to a w
