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Originally Posted by knotty panda Both pairs are really HUGE! I wonder how much the diamond value factors into the conch pair. |
Twenty single cut pointers. $200 ? Relatively nothing anyway..
Would guess that the settings would be a couple thousand, but that mostly goes to the work, not materials.
At least that' what I could have them made for as nice as the images suggest. Flexible... light... As one might want for the pearls' sake.
The pearls, and the auctioneer's clout do the rest.
IMO, the last factor must be HUGE. How many even know what conch pearl are worth? Let alone be prepared to acquire them for the stated estimate. And the auction is not even in HK...
As much as I guess. And I am really not sure if such 'break down' is fair treatment for a rare jewel (i.e. the sum total of all parts). Once something is so desirable and so hard to replicate, it is worth whatever anyone wants to pay. And there's allot of
'want to pay' out there!
Those earrings and the natural Abalone pearls set also listed really, really make me think of ANP. 
Could it possibly 
... Coincidence? Oh well...