![]() ![]() ![]() His son Ronald Winston assumes control of the firm.ġ986 : A Harry Winston salon opens in Beverly Hills on Rodeo Drive. Oppenheimer throws in the "Deal Sweetener," a 181 carat rough diamond.ġ978 : Harry Winston dies in New York. The state of Sierra Leone issues a postage stamp commemorating the event, making Harry Winston the only jeweler ever to see his name published on a stamp.ġ974 : A $24.5 million transaction between Harry Winston and DeBeers' Harry Oppenheimer becomes the largestĭeal in the history of diamonds. The magnificent gem becomes known around the world as the Taylor-Burton diamond.ġ972 : Harry Winston purchases the third largest diamond ever found: the Sierra Leone weighing 970- carats.Īfter a year of study, the rough diamond is cleaved, as the world watches by television. The gem is purchased by Richard Burton for his wife, Elizabeth Taylor. Shinde's creations revolutionize jewelry design.ġ967 : Winston acquires a 241-carat uncut diamond, which produces an exceptional 69.42 carat pear shaped jewel. Pink diamond, seventeen emeralds weighing 256-carats, and the tiara of the Duke of Westminster, complete with the famous Ascot diamonds.ġ960 : Harry Winston moves to a distinguished townhouse on Fifth Avenue and 56th Street, designed by famed French interior designer Stephane Boudin of Jansen.ġ962 : Harry Winston appoints Ambaji V. Harry Winston embarks on an extravagant acquisition of exceptional gemstones, including: the Nur-ul-Ain Proceeds from the show are dedicated to the March of Dimes.ġ951 : Harry Winston buys the famed Portuguese Diamond.ġ955 : Harry Winston opens in Geneva, Switzerland, followed by a 1957 opening in Paris.ġ958 : Harry Winston donates the Hope diamond to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. ![]() 'The Court of Jewels' includes the Hope Diamond, the Earl of Dudley Necklace, the Indore Pears, the Star of the East, the Jonker Diamond, the Sapphire of Catherine the Great, and both the Mabel Boll and McLean Diamonds. "My friends tell me you have such wonderful things," Wallis Windsor remarks.ġ946 : Winston acquires the Briolette of India, a diamond with a history dating back to Eleanor of Aquitaine.ġ947 : Katherine Hepburn attends the Academy Awards wearing Harry Winston's famous Inquisition Necklace.ġ949 : Harry Winston purchases the Hope Diamond.ġ949-53 : Harry Winston's first exhibition of rare gems travels throughout the United States. Jennifer Jones wears classic Winston diamonds when she accepts an Oscar for best actress.ġ946 : Winston meets the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Aravella Huntington, for $2 million in 1926.ġ930 : Harry Winston buys a 39-carat emerald cut diamond, at the time the largest diamond ever to come on theġ932 : Debut of the newly founded Harry Winston salon, located in Rockefeller Center in New York.ġ933 : Harry Winston marries Edna Fleischman, a style arbiter in her own right, who will remain his life-long confidante and muse.ġ943 : Harry Winston is the first jeweler to lend jewelry to an actress for the Academy Awards. Rebecca Darlington Stoddard, followed by the acquisition of the equally famous collection of Mrs. 1896 : Harry Winston is born in New York four years after his father opened a small jewelry shop in Manhattan.ġ920 : Harry Winston opens his first business, the Premier Diamond Company, at 535 Fifth Avenue in New York.ġ925 : Harry Winston pays $1 million for the entire jewelry collection of Mrs. ![]()
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