Everybody is aware that the Titanic movie starring Leonardo Dicaprio is one that goes back decades but not everybody is aware that the Titanic necklace owned by the passenger Kate Florence is a piece of jewelry whose story spans even further back.
The fictional piece that we see in the mentioned Titanic movie is called the heart of the ocean and was designed to look similar to the Hope Diamond which unknown to many, never travelled aboard the Titanic.
The survivor Kate Florence from the Titanic however was given a similar piece by her lover and husband Samuel Morley who unfortunately died in 1912 when the Titanic sunk. Her piece was made of sapphires and can be seen in the various Titanic exhibits around the globe.
There was a similar blue diamond in the 1943 version of the Titanic but the one in this movie is said to go missing thus causing the end of the two lovers' relationship.
Today you can find this necklace to buy as a souvenir in many of the Titanic museums. A lot of the modern day jewelers add a bit of their own style to the original design and one such jeweler is Swarovski with his Jet & Titanic Necklace.
In 1997, a jeweler this time from London made a piece valued at $10,000 which was used in the 1997 Titanic film. At the release of the movie a real heart of the ocean necklace was made at a value of $3.5 million to be sold at an AIDS charity event in which Celine Dion was the wearer.
The following year another famous jeweler, Harry Winston made a different heart of the ocean necklace which was valued this time at $20 million. Gloria Stuart adorned it to the Academy awards.
The movie the Titanic has done a good job at bringing the Titanic necklace to the public eye making it one of the greatest widely recognized jewelries symbolizing love but the story behind it is one that goes even much further back than a lot of people know.
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