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display at the DeBeers Diamond Pavillion in Johannesberg. The Jubilee diamond, weighing 245.35 carats, is the fourth largest cut diamond known. It is exceeded in weight only by the Cullinan I (530.2 carats, the Cullinan II (317.4) carats and the Nizam (277) carats. The 280 carat Great Mogul has been lost since 1739 and the 250 carat Great Table was cut into the Darya-i-nur (185 carats) and Nur-ul-ain (60 carats).

The original stone was found in Jagersfonteim mine, Kimberly, South Africa, in 1895. It was named the Reitz after F.W. Reitz, then president of the Orange Free State. In 1897, it was cut into a cushion-shaped brilliant and renamed the Jubilee in honor of Queen Victoria´s Diamond Jubilee.

The Jubilee is considered to be one of the world´s greatest diamonds because of its size, its extraordinarily fine color, and because it is so perfectly cut that it balances on its culet, less than two millimeters across.

Of the largest cut diamonds in the world, many gemologists believe the Jubilee is the most perfectly cut of all. Its facets are so exact that it can be balanced on the culet point, which is less than two millimeters across.

The Jubilee Diamond is on