Manu Jia Yin learned from the habit of Westerners, and spread his hands, and put on a helpless exaggerated expression: Zhang Nan is a scoundrel, can he still be with me?

It's just a gem, even if it's in your own hands, it's a theory that if you kill it, it's more than a million theories, and there is no need to argue with your most important partners and friends, not to mention that the first giant sapphire can be generously given to you.

Zhang Nan is not only a collector, but also the backstage boss of a top jewelry group, and letting the right to buy the giant sapphire is to save face, which is a friend's pocket.

The two Gentlemen Valmar sat there and smiled, and Davenral added, "This is the finest and largest of the royal blues that have been sold this time, and Mr. Allen, your sister's handbag will be very satisfying as a gift." ”

Although the jewelry business is not the main business of the Walmart family, they also know Zhang Nan's sister and Mr. Xiang's wife, because Zhang Hui has a super diamond of more than 100 carats!

There are hundreds of carats of high-quality diamonds in the world, and there is one in the hands of a strong Chinese woman, who is also the sister of the famous Mr. Allen, which is not a secret in the estimated jewelry industry.

I didn't think about it, Zhang Nan said: "It's still a little smaller, if only it could have the royal sapphire as big as the British crown."

By the way, Manu, your people have a wide range of roads in Sri Lanka, and if you have high-quality super-sized royal blue in the future, you will have to keep it for me, and the price is easy to say.

I just learned that my sister likes royal blue sapphires, so she has to put together a set of sapphire jewelry that is no better than Princess Diana. ”

Zhang Nan is emotional, and among the blood relatives, only Zhang Hui, the eldest sister who is more than a round older than him, is particularly close, her mother went early, and her father is a buyer who has not touched the house for more than half a year.

According to the old saying and traditional rules of Huaxia disciples, if it is a biological sister who has both parents who have died, and the elder sister and eldest sister raise their younger brother like a mother, they can take half of the family property as a dowry when they get married.

Although the ancient Chinese were feudal, there were also relatively fair places.

Since my sister thinks Princess Diana's jewelry is good, let's get a better set, at least not once.

Isn't it just money?

When Manu-Jayin heard this, he said: "That's difficult, Ceylon has been fighting intermittently in recent years, and our 100,000 troops only withdrew three years ago.

To be honest, the buyers on my side are there = not very popular, and there are people at both ends who don't want to see them..."

The Sri Lankan Civil War first originated from the British-stirring stick - the colonial rule. Sri Lanka is dominated by Sinhalese, and the British colonizers moved hundreds of thousands of Tamil laborers from southern India to Sri Lanka, and they also adopted the usual methods of partition and provocation.

More than 100 years later, it is no wonder that Sri Lanka is stable, the civil war has been fought for ten years, and the LTTE is still going from strength to strength because of the continuous support of the Tamil people from India.

Sea ship transport, the Indian Tamils also use several small transport aircraft that they own for the delivery of equipment and ammunition by the LTTE-organization.

The Sri Lankan government initially repeatedly demanded that New Delhi take certain measures in this regard, but the Indian government ignored it because Indian politicians did not want to see the Hindu Tamils defeated by the Sri Lankan government forces.

However, New Delhi has to worry that the local Tamils will follow suit, and on the other hand, the Sri Lankan government army sees that New Delhi is on the wrong side, just like India's enemy, Pakistan, asking for help.

This is interesting, forcing India to send troops to Sri Lanka to act as a "peacekeeping force", thinking that the warring parties will sit down and talk.

The result, of course, was that the two sides were not pleased, and it was useless to go to 100,000 troops, many people died, and their own prime minister was assassinated, and in the end they could only withdraw to the country in disgrace.

In this case, even if an Indian jewelry buyer like Jia Yinjia doesn't want to get involved in politics, it is not very popular on both sides of Sri Lanka.

“... In the last two years, there have not been many high-quality royal blues from Ceylon.

Princess Diana's engagement ring custom-made from Gerald Jewelry is a small matter, I haven't seen the real thing, but the 12-carat at the beginning of 81 is 28,500 pounds, and the quality is estimated to be not top-notch.

However, at that time, the wedding gift from the Shah royal family was a sapphire suit from Espre, a necklace, a pair of earrings, a ring, a bracelet, and a sapphire bracelet watch, which would not be inferior in size and quality. ”

Ceylon, formerly known as Sri Lanka, Manu-Jain would source the best gemstones for his partners, but he didn't dare to do it all.

"Try your best, there's always a chance. ”

Zhang Nan said this, but he was actually quite happy in his heart, at least the sapphire he had just "grabbed" was two times larger than the one in Diana's hand, and he really hadn't paid attention to it before.

Old Valma said at this time: "Mr. Allen, since you are going to send your sister as a good friend, then we have to make a set of royal blue for you this time, I think Mr. Jia Yin should have no opinion." ”

Manu Jain shook his head, "Of course it's fine. ”

Good guys, sure enough, there are hidden goods.

Old Varma signaled, and the great butler behind him stepped forward at once.

"Go and bring the whole set of 25 sapphires that you can put in diamonds to make a necklace. ”

"Yes, sir. ”

The two spoke in English and were very attentive to everyone's feelings.

This Xiang Weirong smiled at everyone a little embarrassed, just now he seemed a little rude to speak to Zhang Nan in dialect, and he fell a little down.

Of course, the other two families were not at ease, and they just reacted habitually, and they all guessed that Xiang Weirong's words should be for the royal blue sapphire.

After waiting for about ten minutes, the big butler brought something: 25 sapphires were arranged in a circle on the tray in a regular circle with "the largest in the middle and smaller on both sides", which was very regular.

"25 sapphires, almost all of them Grecoque square-like octagonal cuts, with a few near-square cushion cuts, ranging in weight from 4.12 to 12.8 carats, for a total of 140.08 carats, all royal blue.

Slightly polished, separated in the middle by a slightly smaller square or cushion-shaped colorless diamond, platinum as a semi-rigid base, the absolute top gemstone necklace.

I wanted to keep it with the diamond and send it to the Middle East or London for auction later, but since Mr. Allen likes it, $2.5 million is yours. ”

The design ideas were all thought out, of course Zhang Nan wanted it, and in the next transaction, he took the initiative to give part of the share to Manu Jia Yin. There are contacts and contacts, and as for the medium and high-end goods with a large number of transactions in the future, the two are really one and a half.

The "Four King Kongs" are here, so they have to move some back.

The top of the sapphire is cornflower blue, and the world feels slightly inferior, in fact, the same rare, precious royal blue - cornflower blue ranks first, the biggest reason is that it has been out of mine for more than 100 years.

In the twenties, new ore sites were discovered near the original mining area, but the quality was almost much worse than the previous old mines, and the enrichment was much worse, reaching an altitude of 4,800 meters, and it was mined manually for two or three months a year.

Mining is difficult, the benefit ratio is not cost-effective, and what is worse is that the mining area is just near the actual control area of India and Pakistan in 47 years.

Without a new source, the cornflower blue gems are completely out of production, and those mined more than 100 years ago, coupled with their unique charm, are difficult not to rank first.

Kashmir cornflower sapphires are hard to find, and wealthy people can only turn their needs to sapphires produced in Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia, among which the top color, royal blue, has become a more realistic pursuit.

Many people think that Royal Blue is more low-key and restrained than cornflowers, but it has a bit of noble temperament in its bones.

It is said that this royal blue is not as bright as the high-profile and noisy cornflower blue, but its calm and rich blue has a charming tinge of purple, and the shimmering fire that blooms when swept by the light is particularly attractive.

A lot of modifications, to put it bluntly, the royal blue sapphire is a Western-style pretending weapon, and it is the most classic kind, but this will be Zhang Nan has not heard of and realized this pretending theory.

If it weren't for his sister's liking, he wouldn't have bought royal blue sapphires for his own family, because even in strong light, royal blue would actually have dark dead ends.

Compared with cornflower blue, royal blue has obvious defects, but turnip greens have their own love, and my sister likes it.

The sapphires that they want to use will be handed over to the studio led by the Joshua brothers, and the studio of Douglas Valentino Jr. will not be idle, because since the blue one is on, will the red one be far away?

After trading the high-grade sapphires, and then for a bright pink spinel with a weight of 152 carats that was polished according to its natural form, Zhang Nan really flipped the playing cards with Manu Jia Yin!

Both sides like it, pretending to be generous so that it can't get along with themselves, and the Varma family can't get the same second grain, the flop is the fairest, and it doesn't hurt the peace.

Red spinel, touted in the old days, both in the East and the West, is often mistaken for ruby.

The ruby crown worn by the Manchu first-class officials and above is red spinel nine times out of ten;

In the West, even the "Black Prince Ruby" in the British crown has been considered a ruby for hundreds of years, but it is also a ruby.

There is also the huge ruby in the crown of Catherine of Tsarist Russia bought from the Qing Dynasty, which is actually also a red spinel.

Sought after in both the East and the West, people at that time could not tell the difference between ruby and red spinel. But now, after the world can distinguish the difference, it has gone to an extreme, and the price of spinel in general is not particularly high, and there is even a tendency to be seriously underestimated.

But after all, the big high-quality red spinel is still popular in the high-end market: not to mention the 152-carat high-quality red spinel, more than 10 carats will be rare!

Indians love diamonds, they have loved rubies for centuries, and they love rubies even more, and there are quite a few in the temple basement, most of which are red spinels: the consequence of Zhang Nan's flop win is to pay a price of $1.5 million.

Except for the Russian and British treasury, museums and royal collections, there is nowhere to find such a large piece of high-quality red spinel nowadays, even if it is no longer cut, it is better to put it as a specimen.

If it is cut, according to the estimation of the "Four Heavenly Kings" research, it can produce a long trapezoidal fire pillow formation of about 100 carats.

Later, if you want to sell and find a suitable buyer, it is no problem to double the price, or even higher.

However, neither Brown nor Joshua recommend making a move: such high-quality red spinel is rare in a century, and even if the boss doesn't like it, it's good to put it in the company's showcase.

With bad luck, Manu-Jia Yin can only blame herself, and she has to hold back her red eyes.

I bought spinel, and then I bought rubies, but I brought them up with antiques that were hundreds of years old, and they were basically polished according to the original shape of the rough, and they were not even cut.

And the contents of many rubies are very large, and they are worth a lot of money, but Zhang Nan's personal interests are average, so he asked Brown and others to trade with the master.

Zhang Nan, the boss who basically doesn't care about things, has a different vision from jewelry appraisers, cutters, and designers, and he generally only sees the brilliance of gemstones after cutting, but he does not have too strong judgment ability on the quality of the rough stones.

is even a little paranoid, he is disgusted by the internationally recognized "burning" process, and all the red and sapphire on his own collection and his own women's jewelry are unburned.

International recognition, in Zhang Nan's eyes, is just a means to deceive ordinary consumers, just like those small means in diamond marketing.

It's all physically treated at high temperatures, and it's like emeralds, soaked in oil, and it always feels like a jade B cargo.

The owner of the clay hat, the memories and opinions left in the previous life are too deep-rooted, and now there is too much money, in addition to cutting and carving skills, any physical and Chinese means have treated the gems, this Zhang Nan is not eye-catching.

If you are self-aware and know that your views are not suitable for the mass market, you will not participate in this professional matter if you let professional people handle it.

When I bought a ruby for a diamond, almost all of them should be treasures produced in India, but they are not particularly large.

If there were really giant diamonds, the earth kings of North India would be in short supply, and there would not be too many that could flow into the hands of the ancestors of the Varmar family.

With a bunch of diamond mines in his hands, Zhang Nan no longer paid attention to the largest diamond in his hand, and saw that the largest diamond he had brought up was only a dozen carats, and it was still an "ancient-style" cutting technique.

Not long after, Zhang Nan left Brown and the others here, and the others left the terrace pavilion.

The Valmar family stayed behind with Davenlar and the two appraisers to continue to participate in the transaction, and the old Valma said to go and choose a weapon, and left with Zhang Nan and the others.

Manu Jia Yin didn't leave, he relied on this to eat, and there were tens of millions of gems to be traded, so he didn't have anything else to think about in the past two days.

The amount is large, even if it is classified, the following transaction is not done on this day.

The hunt was set to set off the day after tomorrow, and old Valma said that he had got some new firearms, and Zhang Nan and others might like it.

Last time, several people brought antique "Ying 77", this time thanks to the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Valmar family legally purchased a small number of SKS semi-automatic rifles, it is estimated that Guan Xingquan and these friends from China are used to it.

.。 Writing Chinese Network M.