【Andorra】The Record-Breaking Jewel That ‘Chose’ Tita Cervera as Its Owner: The World’s Largest Flawless Diamond

Tita Cervera, the Thyssen baroness, has chosen to speak about this stunning diamond, which we saw her wear at the inauguration of the Thyssen Museum in 1992 alongside Queen Sofía and King Juan Carlos.
She did so in an exclusive interview given to Miquel Valls from her residence in Andorra, where she spoke openly about her personal life.
She told the collaborator of ‘Espejo Público’ the curious story of this jewel, which seems to be linked to her life. The first time she saw and touched it was in Geneva. Tita had traveled there two years after being widowed by Lex Barker.

She met with Harry Winston, an old friend of the late American actor, because she was going on a cruise with some friends and wanted to travel without her jewels.
This American luxury jeweler wanted to help Tita store some jewels in his safe. Tita recounts that she went to his office and explained that she wanted to go on her cruise peacefully by depositing her jewels with someone she trusted, and there, in Geneva, she saw the Star of Peace diamond for the first time.
Harry Winston showed the piece to Tita, who at the time had not yet met Baron Thyssen, as he was married to his third wife, Fiona, whom Tita describes as “a bit of a donkey” in the interview. Winston asked the art collector to pick up and caress this stunning diamond, to play with it. Something Tita did, while telling him about her upcoming cruise destination.
The Catalan woman explains in the interview that cutting a diamond is complicated because it needs a “coup de grâce”; if it is poorly cut, it turns into a thousand tiny diamonds. The so-called Star of Peace is the largest diamond in the world without carbon, holds a Guinness World Record, because it is flawless category, meaning without inclusions or imperfections, making it the best in terms of purity.

Interestingly, Harry spoke to her about “Mr. Thyssen, who was a charming man,” and it was “years later,” when she was already married to the baron, that Heini explained to her that this jewel was an investment, but she could wear it in the meantime. She recounts that up to three people wanted to buy this spectacular diamond, unique in the world. The first two did not reach a financial agreement, but while in Lugano (Switzerland), Baron Thyssen asked his wife to take out “the stone.”
Tita recounts that she had it stored in the safe in her room and a lady named Horten, one of the richest in Europe with “a spectacular jewelry collection,” tried it on and left with it. However, upon returning from a weekend with her husband from Germany, she finds her mother and her son Borja at the airport. Her mother was holding this diamond, of exorbitant value, right in the middle of the airport because the Thyssens’ administrator did not want to keep it in the office due to what might happen. Then the baron said to Tita:

A piece that she still owns today and that is unique, whose price she has not wanted to reveal.