on sale at Christie’s Geneva. It is a diamond and ruby bracelet made by Cartier with a reserve of nearly £2m. The Duke gave it to the Duchess in 1938 on their first wedding anniversary in June - the order for the gift had been placed with Cartier Paris earlier that year and delivered to the former king ahead of the couple leaving town to spend the summer in the south of France.
According to records at the time, the Duke chose rubies because they represent love, passion, good fortune, courage and prosperity.“The rubies are massive,” says Cisamolo. “Both are 35 carats, from Burma, and neither have been treated.
They are surrounded by 25 carats worth of diamonds and from research we know that the clusters were previously on a Cartier necklace.
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