ASPREY is celebrating the Diamond Jubilee by collaborating with light artist Chris Levine, whose famous 2004 portrait of the Queen featured the monarch wearing the diamond diadem that she wore to her 1953 Coronation.
Especially for the Jubilee, Asprey has recreated the diadem - entitled The Diamond Queen - and the finished product will be sold via sealed bids throughout the month of June. Proceeds will be split between two of the Queen's charities - The Woodland Trust and QEST.
In the market for a crown? The finished product was made by laser-cutting and engraving a large sheet of platinum, decorating it with 1000 diamonds and attaching 25 freshwater pearls via tiny platinum screws. As an impressive finishing touch, a natural fancy intense yellow round brilliant diamond will be set into an 18-carat yellow gold collet at the centre of the diadem.
LISA NIVEN 23 May 2012
http://www.vogue.co.uk/jewellery/news/2012/05/23/asprey-jubilee-diadem---christopher-levine
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