Million Dollar Diamonds - Unboxing Natural Fancy Color & More!

This shows the vast array of varieties of diamonds. There are things on this table that I've never seen before. If you had to tell me a rough estimate of how much do we have here? I'd say we've got around $15 million of diamonds on the table. Hey everyone, welcome to another unboxing. Today is a super special unboxing because Andrew and I are actually in front of a live studio audience here at our headquarters and we are so excited to have you here. This is Andrew Schlesinger, he's a 6th generation diamond dealer and we are so thankful to have you on the channel again. Well thank you for having me here and I'm very excited to start showing you what we have in these boxes. So, do you want to go to the first one? Let's get to it. Because this is the live JTV experience, we definitely felt the pressure to up our game a little bit. So in this first box there is a $5 million diamond. Okay. And we challenge you to see if you can find it. Oh my goodness, okay. Out of all of these, we have 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. My goodness Andrew, and they're all colored. They are all colored diamonds, these are natural fancy colored diamonds. A lot of them could on their own buy you a house, but the $5 million one could buy you a house in Hamptons. So brown is a fairly common fancy color, but actually because of its size, I'm going to keep it in the running. Brown diamonds get their brown color from structural defects. Some of the other diamonds here that are super rare also share that same property in getting their color and those would be the pinks and reds. Which I know are pretty nice. I love that little heart. Can y'all see that, the heart? Yellow in diamonds and the orange in diamonds come from trace elements of nitrogen. So you have some beautiful ones here from Brazil. And then the blue, I think that's green. A lot of these got bluish green in their GIA certs. To my eye they look more blue. The color blue in diamonds is from trace elements of boron. And when you get some hydrogen in there you'll have something a little more violet or purplish. I have an idea. I'm going to narrow it down and then I think you guys are going to help me decide. I'm going to start taking some away to narrow. Alright. Let's move these aside. I'm going to keep the pinks and reds. I'm going to move these there. Let's play a game. Who thinks it's one of these? Can we get applause? What about these blues? Okay, so we've got some there. What about the brown? I like your confidence. We have one for the brown. Yes. It is kind of hard without a loop. Sure, yes. I will tell you that I don't believe any of these are imperfect in quality. They're all SI or better. I'm going to go... This is stressful. Would you like to narrow it down to two? Yes. Okay. Alright. Let's bring them down to one in the red category and one in the blue category. I... The certificate on this is probably more of a pinkish purple even though I'm calling it red. So I don't know if that leans you in one direction or the other. The certificate on this one is a bluish green. Okay. Bluish green. Well done. Pinks and reds are very valuable. Yes. Especially with the Argyle Mine closure. Yes. In 2020 the Argyle Mine closed and a lot of these beautiful colors are going to be harder and harder to find. But these blues are super rare and this is a 2.32 carat. Oh my goodness. Look at that. The green in diamonds is from natural radiation inside the earth. So normally you'll get pock marks on the skin. Those pock marks are the green radiation really gets into the stone. Green stones in general when they have that radiation inside of them are really electric as you can plainly see on this stone. That's amazing. We believe that this is from Brazil but we found interesting material like this from Indonesia as well. So this is not for sale? This is for sale for five million dollars. It might be fun to lift up a few and read out their value on the back. Oh yes. Okay so the brown one is not cheap. Nope. Let's play a little bit of over under. Let's say this is $95,000. More or less. Over. Okay we're at 110. Let's go with the red one. This is .88 carats. Over or under 500,000? We're at 450,000. A value. The orange, that is a very vibrant color. Yes it is. I really like that. And they're very rare although they haven't gotten a lot of popularity. So keep that in mind when you're thinking of the over under here. Okay. Is that a comma? Yes. Okay. So this is 1.06 carats. Over or under 45,000? Over. We're at 70,000. Rebecca if you enjoyed this box I really think you're going to be excited about the next box. I believe you. Let's see it. Jewelry. And here we have a lot of these fancy colors. Oh my gosh. Set in jewelry. This one is obviously a stunner. The pear shape, y'all like that one? This is actually a fancy intense green that has that coloring inside of it that I was talking about. Set here with argyle pinks around it. This was photographed on many people's hands here. Gemstones are a limited resource. Yes. And especially when you see mines like the argyle mine in Australia closing where that's you know what 99, 95% of the world's pink diamonds. It makes pieces like that so much more interesting, so much more special. There is a lot of pink coming out of Russia but it's lower quality material and does not replace what we were getting from argyle for certain. Okay so is that rough? That is rough. That is so fun. That's a vial necklace that we're hoping to start selling on Dijadora. It is a 5 carat rough diamond necklace in 14 carat yellow gold with a cap of polished diamonds for a crown. That is beautiful. This one really caught my eye. So you have like a grayish blue, a green, and an orange. And that can be yours for $975,000. Your company is called Rough Diamond Jewel. Yes. But obviously these are faceted. We do faceted rough. We do recycled diamonds. Everything diamond out there. I think I should wear some of them right now. I think that's appropriate. Yeah, yeah. I think that would be only fair. I like it. And now you have appropriate hands for box number three. Excellent. Oh my goodness, look at that. This is a celestial box. Celestial. The natural rough diamonds that you are pulling out right now are naturally intertwined cubes that form the shape of stars. They're like starfish. Yeah, yeah. And you have a few colors here. Colorless, yellowish, brown. They are in this box with Carbonado and Meteor Impact diamonds. That is too cool. You're going to have to explain that. So Carbonados are a polycrystalline diamond. All diamonds that are formed on Earth are single crystalline. Dr. Stephen Haggerty is the leading scientist in studying Carbonados. And it is his theory that these formed in supernovas and came to Earth in meteorites. Now these diamonds were formed on the surface of the Earth by meteor impact. Recently there was a paper done in Colorado where the scientists there theorized that the surface of Mercury was covered with diamonds because of meteor impacts and no atmosphere to protect the planet. And I imagine this is what those diamonds would look like. That is too cool. And they look like little slivers or sheets. Yes, flakes. This, I think, shows the vast array of varieties of diamonds. We love to talk about all diamonds and all the colors and varieties. It's part of our passion and our storytelling, as you know, and may be a good segue into box number four. Excellent. You guys are going to absolutely love these. Andrew has an amazing collection of rough diamonds that look like different things. Some of these I haven't seen. These you have not seen. We've brought you here our Mickey Mouse collection. Oh, that is too cute. Ruff and his friends are big fans of Disney. Ruff the Diamond Dog and his friends got proper stands and thrones. That is not the cutest thing. I think it's important to emphasize these were found like this. These were not faceted in this form. They have not been worked on in any way. They came out of the ground this way. We wrote the book Ruff's Diamond World on that. The super six are right there. We've got Dandy the Diamond Duck, Carrot the Rabbit, Kitty the Carbon Cat, Ganesh the Elephant, and then Einstein the Brilliant Bear. That is so cool. I love that. Ruff is from Botswana along with Kitty. Dandy is from Russia. Ganesh was from Sierra Leone. Einstein is from Canada. Carrot the Rabbit was from South Africa. We find diamonds all over the world. Look at that one. What is going on there? I see an ape in that one. Okay. I see that. That's our dolphin. Dolphin. Mind you, we do have disagreements on what these shapes are in the office. That has to be a penguin. That is a penguin. That's right. That has to be a penguin. The penguin is a good segue into the second book currently being illustrated. Hopefully, we'll be ready close to the time this episode is airing. The book addresses synthetic diamonds. The wizard from the first book marches out his synthetic diamond making machine. Starts popping out DeFlawless's. DeFlawless feels a little taken aback and Ruff sees this and tells him that he shouldn't be upset by synthetics being out there. That his story is different than the story of synthetic diamonds. And then we go into talking about where diamonds come from and how they come to us through the earth and volcanic activity. Alluvial diamonds. We have a whale in there somewhere. Oh, I definitely see the whale. Alluvial diamonds travel through rivers after they explode out through the earth. So, I think it's important to say that, you know, mined diamonds and lab-grown diamonds, they all have a place. They do. They're on different journeys. Synthetic diamonds are going to be helping us more and more in technology. They're going to eventually hit a value where they are able to be used in semiconductors efficiently. They'll be possibly spaceship windows. It's fantastic where it's going. And in jewelry, you'll have beautiful, affordable jewelry using lab-grown diamonds. But the natural diamonds are things that have been around on the earth for over a billion years. And the things that they've seen and can teach us are different than synthetic diamonds. That's the fun thing about jewelry and gemstones. There really is something for everyone, for every purpose. And there's so much variety out there. There are things on this table that I've never seen before. Anyone who's been in the industry for any amount of time knows that you really can never know it all. You're always able to be surprised by something new and different. It's just so fun to be a part of. Diamonds and gemstones are powerful on every level, from the cheap to the most expensive. You know, speaking of expense, if you had to tell me a rough estimate of the amount of diamonds from a monetary perspective on this table, how much do we have here? Well, some of these stones are priceless, as they are not for sale. So that's difficult to put the value into. But apart from, let's say, the animal collection, I'd say we've got around $15 million of diamonds on the table. This might be a record, actually, on our channel. We had to outdo ourselves with the JTV experience. You had to do it. Oh my goodness. So as you all know, we take a closer look at some of our favorite specimens from the episode, and I can't not pick this one, the $5 million green diamond. So take a closer look. I feel super fortunate to have seen these and touched these, and we're so grateful that you brought them here for us to see. This is the true value of any kind of gemstone, is being able to share it, share your stories, share your experiences. It's been a very powerful experience being here. 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