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The famous pendant was a bit of a fake: Asprey & Garrad did create it specifically for the film and used a real sapphire, but it was not framed with diamonds, but with much cheaper cubic zirconia. So the pendant cost “only” $10,000. But later, when the film was released and viewers began storming movie theaters and buying up T-shirts with the faces of their favorite characters, jewelers created exactly the same piece of jewelry, but this time with real diamonds. The jewelry with a 170-carat sapphire and 65 diamonds was sold at a charity auction for $2.2 million.
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