The diamond’s history dated from the ancient times. For Egyptians, Indians and Persians the diamonds were symbol of wealth and prosperity in the whole world. In India there are a story for a diamond, talisman of India, incarnation of the earth, water, sky, air and energy. In ancient times there was a belief that a warrior who cares a diamond on the left side of his weapon wouldn’t be killed by his enemy. There were also beliefs that the diamond can be a cure for many diseases.
The quality of the diamonds is different and they can be used for different purpose from jewelry to the technical machines. The diamonds contain mainly carbon. The quality of the diamonds depends on his grinding and perfect form. There are 5 grinding valuation – perfect, excellent, very good, good and badly. The diamonds can be perfectly transparent, semi-transparent and non-transparent, which depends on their structure, admixture and color density. The color of the diamonds can be different - blue, yellow, green, red, brown and pink. The color depends on the admixtures in the diamond. As colorless is high, as the quality and the price of a diamond are higher. Colorless diamond let the light to go through it and the diamond becomes the glorious shining. Of course there are and exceptions when the color makes a diamond more expensive.
The most expensive diamond in the world is a blue one called the diamond of Vitelsbah which weight 35.56 carats. The rare diamond is expensive mostly because of it history. In 1664 the Blue diamond was ordered by the Spanish king Philip IV like a dowry of his daughter Margarita Teresa, who married for the Austrian king Leopold I. After her death, the blue diamond was given to her granddaughter. She married for a member of the Vitelsbah family. The blue diamond was called the Vitelsbah diamond and there was a belief that the dreams of everybody who touch it will become true. When Maximilian IV from the same family became the Bavarian king, he ordered the blue diamond to be incrusted on his crown. After the First World War, Vitelsbah family was forced to sell the diamond. Long time there wasn’t any information for the destiny of this incredible diamond. One day it suddenly appeared in Christie’s. It was sold to Lorans Graff who paid 24.3 million dollars for the diamond Vitelbah. Maybe it will stay in the Graff’s collection forever or at least till he is alive.
