Diamond History

Genesis

Diamond is in the beginning. Born billions of years ago, diamond was formed in magma deep in the earth under extreme conditions (*).

The diamond found "on the surface" is accidental, it took a sequence of exceptional events for this mineral to emerge from obscurity. Like your love encounter.

(*) Crystallization of diamond at a depth of more than 150 km, under a pressure of 70000 kg/cm2 at temperatures of more than 1300°C.

Discovery

The moment of the discovery of the diamond by the man is unknown. But a text dating from the 4th century BC, in Sanskrit, the literary language of ancient India, mentions the characteristics of a gem, and its trade, which can be said to concern the diamond.

In the year 60 BC, Pliny the Elder gives a description of the diamond in "Historia Naturalis".

Cut diamond

It was not until the 15th century that the discovery of diamond cutting and polishing by diamond, attributed to Lodewijk van Berkem (Belgium), revealed the brilliance and beauty of diamonds, which became the object of adornment that women began to wear. But the diamond remained for a long time the prerogative of the most fortunate and the crowned heads.

At the end of the 19th century, diamond deposits were discovered in South Africa, allowing for larger scale production.

The modern history of diamonds begins with Antwerp as a cutting center. In the 20th century, diamonds became the gemstone of the promise of love forever: "a diamond is forever". 

Eternal

The diamond, born in the morning of the world, evokes the beginning of love.

The eternal nature of the diamond responds to our indestructible desire to love.