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Many friends' subconscious reaction to pearls is cheap, before the epidemic, many friends or old people at home like to travel to the beach, and then on the way back, they will always bring a seaside specialty - pearls. Of course, many friends also know that a lot of pearl jewelry in tourist areas is artificially farmed, to put it bluntly, it is not worth much, and buying it back is to be happy. But in fact, there is a species of pearl that is very rare and precious, it is nurtured by nature, a gift from the Caribbean.
This pearl from the Caribbean sea is the famous conch bead, also known as the Kongke bead, which is a natural treasure bred by the queen phoenix snail, and is regarded as a symbol of the gods in the Inca civilization and other early human civilizations. The production of conch beads is similar to the growth process of pearls, when a stimulus enters the body of the queen phoenix snail, it will secrete calcium, which accumulates over time to form conch beads. Most of the Queen Phoenix snail lives in the Caribbean and is completely impossible to breed artificially, so it is very rare.
And due to overfishing, three countries have issued bans on fishing, which makes the number of conch beads that can be used for jewelry processing every year even less, and it is said that only about 900 conch beads are used for jewelry processing every year. Probably because it cannot be artificially farmed, and it is very rare, it has become a treasure sought after and chased by countless famous nobles, and many nobles have spared no expense just to get a piece of conch bead jewelry.
However, to say that the conch beads have such a pampered status, it has to be said that Queen Mary, because her conch bead brooch is too famous. The conch bead brooch in the picture I think many friends should know that it originally belonged to the Queen's grandmother, Queen Mary. According to the relevant information sorted out, Queen Mary originally had two conch bead diamond brooches, but the other brooch figure could not find a good picture because of its limited ability, and apologized to everyone.
The two brooches were probably made by Garner Jewelry in the 1930s, and the two larger ones added up to a little more than 50 carats, and the two conch bead brooches were left to Queen Mary's only daughter after her death, and were later auctioned off, and it is not known whose hands they now belong to.
In addition to Queen Mary's favor for conch beads, Elizabeth Taylor, who was beautiful and charming, also loved conch bead jewelry. It is said that in the 1980s, New York jeweler Harry Winston made a 45-carat conch bead into a necklace, the largest conch bead on record.
Elizabeth Taylor later wore it on the cover of Good Housekeeping magazine. It's just that later, the necklace changed hands many times at auctions, and finally we didn't know which rich man fell into the hands of the rich man, and we could only see the beauty and amazement of the conch beads in these old photos.
In fact, not only those former goddesses love conch beads, but many actresses now like conch beads equally. When walking the red carpet like the well-known beauty in the picture above, a long pink dress with an equally pink conch bead necklace is really fresh and charming.
Compared with other pearlescent jewelry, it really has its own unique powder ink that makes people more and more excited the more they look at it. (Don't mention the name has no other meaning, is now too many trolls, I want to know the name of the beautiful woman friends do not need me to say more naturally know, do not know let's look at the necklace on the line.) ）
Finally, I ended with a natural conch bead with diamond necklace from Christie's autumn auction a few years ago, which was sold for 2,220,000 Hong Kong dollars, and since it was said that it was valuable, I always had to mention the price at the end. However, there are also many friends who feel that they have never understood where the preciousness of conch beads is, and why the market price can be so high.
In fact, it is still that sentence, radish greens have their own love, perhaps in the eyes of friends who are not right, it is just a little bit from the Caribbean, and I can't see any difference from other pearls. In the eyes of those who like it, it is the existence that is difficult to buy, even if it is only from the Caribbean, which already has an indescribable magic power for them, and when the Caribbean adds pink, it becomes a fatal temptation for them. I don't know if you are fascinated by this pink from the deep sea of the Caribbean, welcome to exchange and share Oh.