Rio Tinto’s rare Argyle pink diamonds are showcased in a unique exhibition at Kensington Palace. Titled “Out of the Vault: Pink Diamonds and Royalty”, the exhibition features more than US$60Million of pink diamond jewellery the company said in a press release on Tuesday.
The inspiration for the pink diamond jewellery exhibition RIO said came from Her Majesty the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee when she had a solitaire pink The Williamson Pink diamond, gifted to her and set in the centre of a flower spray brooch created by Cartier, in the year of her coronation. Pink Diamonds has always been treasured, by kings and emperors, princes and potentates, for its nobility, rarity and sheer beauty.
According to Josephine Johnson, Manager of Argyle Pink Diamonds, the company “re consider it fitting in this Jubilee year, for Argyle Pink Diamonds to celebrate the special relationship that rare pink diamonds have played, and continue to play, in royal occasions.”
Pink diamond production however had always been sporadic and it wasn’t until the discovery of the Argyle Diamond Mine in 1979, that there was a regular, albeit very small, supply of pink diamonds of a colour and vibrancy never seen before.
The Argyle pink diamond has become today’s ultimate possession, an incomparable object of desire that has captured the imagination of connoisseurs and collectors around the globe. According to jewellery historian, Vivienne Becker, “Over the past 25 years the diamond industry has come to understand and appreciate the momentous nature of the Argyle diamond mine discovery, the compelling and mysterious beauty of the Argyle pink diamond and its place in the story of jewellery”.
The 40 rare and valuable items of pink diamond jewellery on display at Kensington Palace are sourced from luxury jewellers and designers from the US, Australia, Japan, China, India and Europe, a demonstration of the versatility, variety and vibrancy of style generated by Argyle pink diamonds, and their incredible reach over the past 25 years Rio stated.
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