The Sapphire Pendant In The Movie Titanic Was Not Real
Though this should not detract from the popularity or fame of the movie Titanic, the fact is that Kate Winslets famous Heart Of The Ocean pendant was a fake. The jewel was made to depict what was stated in many old records relating to the sinking of the Titanic. There was metion of a big sapphire pendant aboard the Titanic when the ship sank. The movie makers decide to include this in their script. A huge cz (cubic zirconium) gem was set in the center of the pendant, this was surrounded by white cz stones. The whole jewel was cast in 18k white gold. The point is that a cz stone costs less than 1% of what a real blue sapphire would cost.
The release of the Titanic movie gave great popularity to this sapphire heart shaped pendant. Businesses made thousands of cheap replicas and sold them for prices ranging from 25 U.S$ to a few hundred U.S$. In a way these replicas were a fake of a fake! What followed was even more interesting. The same jeweler who was commissioned to make the cz fake pendant came up with a real sapphire pendant. This was a massive 170 carat ceylon blue sapphire gem, this obviously cost a fortune. Surrounding the big heart shaped blue sapphire were high quality diamonds. The piece was cast in platinum and not white gold. A staggering 3 million dollar price tag was assigned to the jewel. What was rather strange was that the jeweler was willing to sell this sapphire platinum and diamond pendant for just 2.2 million U.S$.
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