Cape Town's Old Town, a six-storey building, looks a little old, an old British colonial building at the beginning of this century. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

As soon as Zhang Nan's group arrived, they immediately attracted the attention of people in several shops on the first floor of the building, but when they saw a group of people walking directly to the stairs, they knew that there was nothing wrong with them.

Zhang Nan feels that this house is quite interesting, this building is horizontal, it is called "Diamond Building", and all the companies here are also related to diamonds.

It's all money!

The shop on the first floor is just the façade of several companies in the building, and the real big customers will not enter the store at all, they will go directly upstairs.

As soon as the gun-wielding building guard saw the person's posture, he let him go without asking.

are all clear-eyed people, and it can be seen at a glance that these sturdy men are all professional bodyguards, and there are many Asian faces, and they are definitely rich people who come to the building to purchase, so don't worry about it.

This is the Diamond Building, and the wealth in it is terrifying, but it is impossible for a few East Asians and a few Europeans to come here to rob it, and the guards of this building are very relieved.

On the third floor, Zhang Nan walked into a "Kimberlite Diamond Company" under the guidance of Brown.

The name of the signboard is very large, but there are two offices, one large and one small, plus a reception room, which will be able to sit Zhang Nan's group.

However, there were many people and the house was small, except for Guan Xingquan and Alyosha, the other bodyguards consciously stayed at the door of the company.

The company is a local dealer in rough and loose diamonds in South Africa, with its own small mine, and the owner has dealt with Brown many times, and the relationship is very good.

Because Zhang Nan didn't say hello in advance before, this Brown didn't contact in advance, but luck is okay, and the person in charge is here.

"Hello, Mr. La Buse-Brown, we haven't seen each other for over a year!"

When the boss named Basten saw Brown, he immediately greeted him with a smile: This is a well-known jewelry appraiser in the United States, and every time he comes to his company, there are good things!

Besides, there are a lot of bodyguards, who are definitely super-rich!

Big business is coming!

"Me too, dear Mr. Basten..."

The two sides exchanged pleasantries, and at the same time introduced Zhang Nan, a wealthy New Yorker.

"Mr. Allen, our company has the top quality rough diamonds and loose diamonds, I don't know what kind of requirements you have?"

Basten, who sounds like a Boer surname, will not be in a hurry to show the company's diamonds, but to ask about the situation first, and not to be impatient.

It doesn't matter if you are Chinese or RB, you have experience.

When Zhang Nan heard this, he said with a smile: "Rough diamonds of more than 10 carats, finished diamonds of more than 5 carats, if there are top colored diamonds, it doesn't matter if they are smaller, I have a family that has a special hobby for colored diamonds." The second quality is not used. ”

Brown would interject: "Mr. Allen is my good friend, a true diamond collector, and you can take out the rough diamonds you brought from the north."

Also, if your business partner has a good diamond on hand, you can also bring it over, and we will stay at the spa hotel tonight. ”

As soon as Basten heard Brown's words, he knew that as long as it was a diamond, it didn't matter where you got it, the buyer didn't care.

Conflict diamonds can also be bought by people, collectors, even if they don't hide and want to sell, then there will be a suitable channel.

"No problem, Mr. Allen. ”

Basten gestured and said a few words to a member of the company who was waiting on the side, who immediately left.

There is no need to shy away from it, just ask the person to contact the owners of a few well-connected diamond companies and say that there are big customers here, experts and big buyers from New York - especially a reminder, as long as it is a good diamond.

Experts don't shout blindly when you are there, the big buyers are asking those friends to take out the best goods, as for "good diamonds" everyone understands.

After waiting for a while, two staff members walked in with four flat boxes with lids, and opened them on the table, two of which added up to forty or fifty rough stones of more than 10 carats, and the other two plates contained more than fifty loose diamonds of more than 5 carats, but the only colored diamond was a yellow diamond that looked less than ten carats, and it was still a round diamond that Zhang Nan did not like.

Each loose diamond is labeled with the 4C logo in front of it, but after Zhang Nan glanced at it, he directly eliminated the loose diamonds with a color below H, a clarity grade below VVS2, and a very good cut or below, and by the way, a round diamond weighing 15 carats was also set aside.

This leaves only five loose diamonds that meet Zhang's requirements: one pear-shaped with 15.06 carats, two pear-shaped with 10.81 carats and 12.43 carats respectively, and two cushion-shaped diamonds with 5.12 carats and 11.02 carats respectively.

As soon as Zhang Nan finished choosing, the next job was born by Brown and Xiang Zhang, and he took out professional tools to start identifying.

A friend is a friend, and a business is a business.

After the two experts tested for a while, Xiang Zhangsheng said: "There is no problem with the same level as the marking." ”

Brown nodded more simply.

5 diamonds, Basten asked for 1.2 million US dollars, which is not expensive, that is, the largest of them The pear-shaped diamond does not have any certificate, but Zhang Nan doesn't care at all.

Diamonds over 10.8 carats, which can be named by the owner, who cares about that certificate.

The first business cooperation was pleasant, but Basten felt that it was a pity that Zhang Nan did not want the yellow diamond.

Hearing the other party's words, Brown smiled and didn't say anything, but Zhang Nan said instead: "Mr. Basten, there are top diamonds that can contact Brown in the future."

As for fancy coloured diamonds, my family has special preferences, but they only need top-of-the-line ones, such as unbeatable. ”

As soon as he heard this, Basten understood that people did not look down on this yellow diamond, and the color level was not enough. He said: "I have only seen the 'incomparable' in the information, but unfortunately it has been bought by an anonymous buyer, and it is estimated that I will never see it again......"

Zhang Nan didn't say much, he wasn't very familiar with it yet, so there was no need to be open in front of anyone.

Once you've got the loose diamond, look at the rough.

Now Zhang Nan really can't understand it: those rough stones of more than ten carats are basically six-sided diamond-shaped, a bit like rock candy. However, the largest rough stone is 37 carats, but the shape is very irregular, Zhang Nan feels that it has not been caught by the machine, and the naked eye can see that there is a broken crack on its edge.

In the end, Zhang Nan bought 3 more rough stones of less than 20 carats and spent another 450,000 yuan.

There are no formalities for the rough diamond, and it doesn't ask where it comes from, just relying on the eyes of two appraisers.

The biggest rough diamond was not wanted, the crack was too deep, and the price was not negotiable: Brown and Xiang Zhangsheng both thought that it could only be cut into three main diamonds of about the same size, and the loss would be more than 65 percent, which was not as good as a "rock candy".

If it is forcibly processed into two diamonds, one large and one small, the larger one is very likely to have flaws and cannot be made.