DIAMONDS ARE A GIRL'S BEST FRIEND

The costliest and most revered of gems, diamonds have an almost mystic quality about them. Found for countless centuries in the crowns and scepters of kings and queens, to signify power and wealth, the high refractivity of these stones causes their distinctive "fire" - the beautiful flaring of the spectrum that characterizes the best examples. A Girl's Best Friend Diamonds peers into the vaults of Christie's, one of the world's major auction houses, to present some of the finest, most illustrious, and, of course, valuable jewelry ever to have come under the hammer at auction.