It is natural that women all over the globe has special affinity over precious diamonds. These diamonds are considered the ultimate symbol of romance together with the exciting lifestyle which requires money to be financed into existence.

Now, with the diamond mines of South Africa opened, diamonds of 150 carat weight or more are not nearly as rare as they used to be, which leaves open more exciting possibilities for finding incredible specimens of the world’s most coveted gemstone.

What are some of the most expensive or famous diamonds in the world? Let’s take a look at these wonders of the world.

The Black Orlov diamond is another world famous black diamond, although this one is actually an extremely dark shade of gun-metal gray. The diamond takes its named from the Russian Princess Nadia Vyegin-Orlov, its owner for a period during the middle-1700s. The cushion-cut diamond weighs 67.50 carats, and was supposedly cut from a 195 carat weight rough crystal. It’s said that it belonged to a nineteenth-century shrine close by Pondicherry, India.

The Ashberg Diamond is another famous Russian diamond. Weighing 102.48 carats, the amber-colored, cushion-cut diamond used to be counted among the Russian Crown Jewels, although as it most definitely appears to be a classic South African diamond it’s believed that this was a late addition to the Russian Crown’s collection. In 1934, the Russian Trade Delegation agreed to let one Mr. Ashberg, a prominent Stockholm banker, buy the diamond. Christie’s in Geneva attempted to auction the diamond in 1981 but its reserve price was never met and so it was withdrawn.

The Amsterdam Diamond comes from Africa and is reported to be utterly black. This rare type of black diamond weighs 33.74 carats, having been cut from a rough of 55.85-carats. The cut diamond has 145 facets and was first shown to the world in 1973 in Amsterdam.