The Constellation is, at 102.79 carats, the largest round shaped, D colour, Internally Flawless diamond ever to be graded by the Gemological Institute of America. When Laurence Graff unveiled the finished diamond, he named it "the Delaire Sunrise". Discovered in 2008 at an alluvial mine in South Africa, the 221.81 carat rough diamond. The Delaire Sunrise is, at 118.08 carats, the largest square emerald cut Fancy Vivid Yellow diamond in the world. The Wittelsbach-Graff Diamond is a 31.06-carat (6.212 g) fancy deep-blue diamond with internally flawless clarity purchased by Laurence Graff in 2008 for £16.4 million. Acquired by Graff for $10.4 million, they yielded 20 diamonds totaling 231.67cts from the one rough stone. The Letseng Legacy diamond was unearthed from the same mine as the Lesotho Promise Letseng diamond mine in 2008 and totalled 493cts. The finished gems total 224 carats (44.8 g). In all, twenty-six stones were fashioned from the rough gem, figuring as seven pear shapes, four emerald cuts, thirteen round brilliants and one heart shape. The largest gem cut from the diamond was a 75-carat (15.0 g) pear-shaped diamond the smallest a 0.55-carat (110 mg) round brilliant. In July 2007 the finished stones were unveiled. The stone was cut by a team of 35 using computer-controlled lasers into 26 D-flawless diamonds totaling 223.35 carats (44.670 g), the highest yield from a single diamond. The Lesotho Promise was acquired as a rough 603-carat (120.6 g) stone for $12.4 million in 2006. The Paragon is a 7-sided diamond of 137.82 carats (27.564 g), cut, and was worn as part of "millennium" necklace of round, pink, blue and yellow diamonds by Naomi Campbell in 1999. The Paragon diamond was acquired by Graff in 1989.
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"Of course they needed re-cutting to bring them to their full potential, I bought all four, repolished them, and eventually made the Windsor earrings." "I also bought another pair of clips the Duchess had owned," Laurence Graff explains. The Duchess was often photographed wearing the Windsor Yellows, a pair of clips of fancy yellow pear shaped diamonds of 51.01 and 40.22 carats respectively.
The Windsor Yellows were acquired by Laurence Graff in 1987 in Geneva during the auction of the jewels belonging to Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor. Graff’s cutting and polishing processes are carried out in Johannesburg by the South African Diamond Corporation, a division of Graff. The majority of Graff diamonds are laser engraved with unique Gemological Institute of America (GIA) tracking numbers, which whilst invisible to the naked eye, allow for their origin to be traced. Graff adheres to the Kimberley Process, never knowingly buying or trading rough diamonds from areas where this would encourage conflict or human suffering. It is awarded on the advice of the Prime Minister, following thorough examinations of each application by an Advisory Committee formed of leading representatives of industry and commerce. The Queen's Award to Industry and Export award is considered to be the highest accolade for a British company. Since then, the company has received this award a further four times, most recently in 2014. Graff were the first ever jewellers to receive the Queen's Award for Industry and Export (now known as the Queen's Award for Enterprise), awarded in 1973. Graff was founded in London in 1960 by Laurence Graff.
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