The Great Chrysanthemum diamond is a pear shaped stone which had its origin in South Africa and was founded in the year 1963. A person named Julius Cohen purchased the rough gem stone and showed the brown chrysanthemum color of the diamond. Cohen, the manufacturing jeweler, gave directions for designing this uncommon gem to a firm known as “S and M Kaufman”. This precious stone was then designed into a pear shaped diamond weighing 104.15 carat.
Initially, at the coarse state, the Great Chrysanthemum diamond had a light yellow color but after it was shaped properly the color changed into golden brown. The color of this scintillating Chrysanthemum diamond also has a tinge of sienna and orange, slightly burnt out. The diamond derived its name from the “brown Chrysanthemum”. This rare gem has a total number of one eighty-nine sides of which sixty-seven is on the top and sixty-five facets on the girdle. The rest fifty-seven sides are one the pavilion.
The width of the Great Chrysanthemum diamond is twenty-five millimeters and lengthwise it measures around thirty-nine millimeters. The depth of this unusual diamond comes around 16.2mm. Placed as a gem in a beautiful golden necklace it had won the prestigious “Diamonds International Awards” in the year 1965. Again, in that year, the Great Chrysanthemum diamond was also exhibited in the grand occasion of “Rand Easter” in Johannesburg. Julius Cohen afterwards sold this valuable diamond to a foreigner.
