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What does this mean? They had jewelers create a bespoke (non-diamond) necklace, but it had to be good quality because of the close-ups they wanted to do with it. As for "assigning it a value", isn't that just what people are willing to pay? $8,000 for a one-of-a-kind piece of jewelry and cinema history doesn't seem too crazy to me...
The value of the prop used in the movie notwithstanding, a quick search suggested that a real 56 carat diamond with qualities and rarity similar to the Hope Diamond would be worth close to $600 million, but no such thing actually exists.
So what I meant was: of course Hollywood has to come up with the ultimate jewel “worth more than the Hope Diamond”, to quote the movie.
Could they make a big diamond in a lab?