The Patiala Necklace was a five-tiered platinum necklace made by Cartier in 1928 for Bhupinder Singh, Maharaja of Patiala. It contained 2,930 diamonds, Burmese rubies and the 234.65-carat yellow De Beers diamond—then the seventh-largest polished diamond in the world. The necklace disappeared from the Patiala treasury around 1948. Its central diamond resurfaced at auction in 1982; the gemless platinum framework turned up in a London second-hand jewellery shop in 1998. Cartier bought the remains and rebuilt the missing grandeur with synthetic stones and replicas.
Patiala Necklace
