It's easy to imagine
diamonds to be worn on a neck, finger, wrist, hair, even on teeth but
it's unusual to see them on footwear. Well, 'road test' is not what
diamonds, the most expensive gems, deserve. However, these ankle
boots were not made for an everyday wear but were used as an odd
setting for expensive gems. If assessed in terms of beauty – they
are 100% dazzling and brilliant! And the most expensive by the way.
The boots were
designed by the designers
An Vandevorst and Filip Arickx from Antwerp and made
by diamond dealer Diarough. They
were working on them to be in time for the Business of Design Week
held in Hong Kong in December 2013. Now
they can be found in the office of Diarough, so several jewelers
from New Zealand and Australia had got an opportunity to
try on them as
a part of their trip to
Antwerp.
Diamond
boots are valued at $3.5 million. They contain 4.7 kilos of gold
(4,753 grams) and 38,883 diamonds – sounds like they are very
heavy. 1,500
this is an amount of carats that cover the boots. Actually there are
fancy colored diamonds: pink, grey and champagne.
But
the main goal of the visit were not boots in fact. There was a
seminar held from 15 to 21 March in Antwerp devoted to synthetic
diamonds. The issues raise were about the difference between natural
and synthetic diamonds, their properties and special attention were
given to diamond detecting machines. The
equipment used at the HRD Antwerp laboratory identify synthetics with
100% certainty. The
seminar was just in time, since there was a parcel of yellow diamonds
recently given for grading in Australia, which turned to be synthetic
though were given for natural. Here is the information about similar case.
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