THE HEART OF THE OCEAN-TITANIC
Titanic’s Heart of the Ocean features a big and beautiful blue diamond, surrounded by small white ones, on a diamond-studded necklace.
The Heart of the Ocean Necklace worn in the film Titanic has a very interesting and complex history including a fictional history presented in the film, and the actual history of the necklace’s inspiration, the Hope Diamond. In the movie, the Heart of the Ocean was a rare blue diamond that was once worn in Louis XVI’s crown. The diamond goes missing after Louis XVI’s execution. It is later recovered and cut into a heart shape and becomes known as the Heart of the Ocean. This history is actually quite similar to that of the actual Hope Diamond, a 45.5CT blue diamond, with the difference being that it was a part of Louis XIV’s royal necklace rather than a crown. While the Heart of the Ocean is a completely fictional piece, both the necklace and the movie were inspired by a tragic love affair on the ship that involved a precious sapphire necklace.
Considerations
In the film, the size of the “Heart of the Ocean Diamond” measures at 56 carats.After the film’s success, Asprey & Garrard were commissioned to create an authentic Heart of the Ocean necklace, however they used a significantly larger center stone that was sapphire instead of a diamond.The commissioned piece includes a 171-carat heart-shaped Ceylon sapphire surrounded by 103 diamonds. The necklace was valued for up to $20 million at auction.The Hope Diamond, is currently valued at $250 million.
All considerations included, our evaluators concluded that if the “Heart of the Ocean” necklace was indeed real, made with a real blue 56 ct. diamond surrounded by genuine colorless diamonds, the value would be higher than that of the 45.5 ct. Hope Diamond.
Estimate: $250,000,000 – $300,000,000
