The Most Expensive Pearl Necklace

While the record has since been broken by other natural pearl necklaces of storied provenance at the time the hutton antoinette pearl necklace was the most expensive pearl necklace in the world.

The most expensive pearl necklace. 10 three strand natural pearl necklace 1 4 million. Marie antoinette barbara hutton pearl stand necklace. A valentine s day gift to her by her two time husband richard burton the necklace fetched a staggering 11 8 million at christie s in new york tuesday. Meet the second most expensive pearl jewelry piece in the world also known as christie geneva s seven strand pearl necklace.

Here are seven of those fabulous pieces. When last brought to auction at christie s in 1999 the necklace fetched a record buying price of 1 47 million. 2 the seven strand pearl necklace. Don t know if la peregrina is the world s most expensive pearl necklace because of 50 6 carat pearl or because it was owned by the iconic elizabeth taylor.

It does not matter whether the pearls is actually a part of a necklace or it stands by itself and we can value them by ourselves. With its gorgeous design featuring no less than 600 natural pearls in shades of radiant cream and gold this luxurious creation was sold back in 2013 for a whopping 9 1 million usd. During the 1910 s and 1920 s pearl necklaces commanded the same prices as the most expensive rembrandts and similar works by old masters the two strands of fifty five and seventy three pearls were valued at one million dollars. The most expensive pieces of pearl jewelry in the world.

Cartier had been assembling the natural pearl necklace over a number of years.