ROCK SOLID
Gorgeous shoulders”, “elegant”, “perfect proportions” – you’d be forgiven for thinking that Victoria Reynolds, Tiffany & Co.’s chief gemmologist and vice president of global merchandising, high jewellery, is describing a supermodel. Rather, she’s speaking about being in the presence of another otherworldly beauty, and Tiffany’s latest major acquisition, the colossal Empire Diamond, weighing more than 80 carats. “It’s sort of difficult to put into words how special it is,” she says from New York, the city that the Botswana-discovered, internally flawless, D-colour stone was named after. “We felt that a diamond that was this important, with this much energy, should have a name befitting of it.”
On tour in Asia at time of writing, where it’s
