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There is a magnificent diamond from the Smithsonian Assortment referred to as the Blue Heart Diamond. Fans of the film Titanic might think the "Heart with the Ocean Diamond" was based on this stone, and it might probably have been!

On the other hand, this diamond hasn't been cast in the ocean, but is safe and sound at the Smithsonian!

It has also been known as the Eugenie Blue Diamond, even though it's unsure that the Empress Eugenie ever before owned this specific stone. It was cut in Paris in between 1909 and 1910, but the stone's origin - Africa or India - is unclear.

It is an huge heart-shaped, blue diamond weighing 30.82 carats. Its present setting is in a platinum ring, surrounded by white diamonds. It altered fingers amongst well-known jewelers - for example Cartier and Van Cleef &amp Arpels - and owners till it was purchased by Harry Winston in 1959 who mounted the diamond in its present ring setting. Winston offered the ring to Marjorie Merriweather Post. Mrs. Post donated the ring to the Smithsonian and it remains there with other well-known blue diamonds, including the Hope Diamond and the Heart of Eternity Diamond.

These well-known blue diamonds have lately gone via a grading and examination procedure, to classify their colours and to determine the source on the color. The Hope Diamond is classified as Fancy Deep Grayish-Blue. The Heart of Eternity has been classified as a Fancy Vivid Blue.

The Blue Heart Diamond has not however been classified, but some specialists categorize it as either Fancy Vivid Blue or Fancy Deep Blue. Blue diamonds are of specific interest to researchers not only simply because in the color and the impurities that produce it, but simply because blue diamonds also have an electric conductive property that can make them unique amongst obvious and other colored diamonds. Blue diamond is 1 of the most beautiful jewelry I ever before noticed.

Alisa Haeften manages Diamond Jewelry site and an writer of Jewelry Review