New Delhi: At the Met Gala 2022, American YouTuber Emma Chamberlain wore a beautiful and antique piece of necklace that belonged to Maharaja Bhupinder Singh of Patiala.
After the picture was shared on social media, the Internet were left amazed. Also this Chamberlain’s style statement has created a storm on social media platforms.
The 20-year-old YouTuber wore the beautiful diamond choker lent by French jewellery house named Cartier.
Actually, this piece of jewellery originally belonged to the Maharaja of Patiala Bhupinder Singh. According to reports this piece of chokerwas made in 1928 after the Punjab royal decided to turn his De Beers diamond, the seventh-largest in the world into an heirloom choker.
This piece of necklace was named as the Patiala Necklace which included five rows of platinum chains embellished with 2,930 diamonds and some Burmese rubies.
The choker was designed after the Patiala royal had reached out to Cartier.
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According to the reports of The Tribune, the necklace weighed over a thousand carats and at its centre was the yellow 234.6-carat De Beers diamond, the size of a golf ball and the seventh-largest diamond in the world.
This Patiala necklace not only ended up being financially attractive for Cartier, also most of the gemstones were supplied by Maharaja himself . With this Cartier’s image was enhanced in the West.
Als0, when Jacques Cartier visited India, he inspected the Indian rulers’ spectacular gemstone collections. He presented a world of luxury to the west that was never seen or known before this. Maharaja Bhupinder Singh’s jewellery collection was displayed by the Cartier at an exhibition on 13 Rue de la Paix, which saw visitors coming from all over the world at the venue to see them.
In 1948, this beautiful piece of jewellery went missing from the Patiala royal treasury. However, after 34 years the De Beers diamond reappeared at a 1982 Sotheby’s auction but without the necklace. It cost $3 million at that time. While after 16 years, the missing part of the necklace was made available at a small antiques shop in London.
After which the necklace was bought by the Cartier. Later the missing stones were replaced by the replicas. It is said that if this piece of Patiala necklace had been at its original form, then it would have cost at least $30 million.
