The Treasure Hunt of an Antique Dealer

Yes, the price is very reasonable. This is not only because the two families represented by Dilip Mehta and Manu Jain have given a preferential price this time in order to maintain the long-term cooperative relationship with Zhang Nan, and It also has something to do with Zhang Nan's own views. August 1?? Chinese W? W? W?. ?8?1㈧Ｚ?W㈠. ?Ｃ㈧Ｏ㈧Ｍ?

After entering the 1990s, the price of colored diamonds will be soaring. By then, this blue diamond will be worth hundreds of millions of dollars!

As for entering the 21st century in more than a decade, at least entering the "20 Million Dollar Club" is not a problem at all.

I remember that around 2o13, a similar blue diamond sold for a sky-high price of 230,000 US dollars. Zhang Nan estimated that the sky-high blue diamond was at most Nicole’s level.

US$50 million in exchange for a small stone. If this money will be invested in China, how many antiques can you buy?

That's not how the accounts are calculated.

Generally, there are enough antiques by yourself, and there is no much fun if there are more. As for the real fine products, you can meet but not ask, even if you go to raid the Liuli factory for ten times, you will not get it, but Weng Yeming may be rewarded.

Hundreds of millions of dollars were spent for pleasure, and these diamonds are so beautiful that people can't pull them out!

That's it, Dilip Mehta is very happy to make today's first deal.

Everyone present knows that this is not over yet: there are two women, it is impossible to buy only one!

The two Indian local tyrants had already considered the current issue when stocking up. Diamonds of similar value were basically "prepared in pairs": Jenny also took a fancy to a pear-shaped diamond, but the color was bright orange.

Not yellow, but standard orange, the same flawless, brilliant color!

The cutting process and shape are almost the same as the previous blue diamond, just a little bit bigger, with 14.82 carats.

Among the colored diamonds, there are more yellow diamonds, and orange diamonds are almost as rare as blue diamonds. Manu Jain also gave a reserve price of US$50 million.

Very good at doing business, at the same price, Zhang Nan has no reason to refuse.

And this orange diamond will be worth more than that blue diamond in a few years, and it will be worth more than 30 million!

No matter how high it is, it won't sell, just like your own woman.

I patronized the diamonds. I haven't seen the place of origin before, but I got the certificate of origin and took a look: Sierra Leone!

The later "Blood Diamond" was famous enough to let people in less than half of the world know about Sierra Leone, a small African country with an area of ​​only 70,000 square kilometers, and the famous "blood diamond" produced in Africa.

Diamonds are beautiful, but they have not brought prosperity and wealth to Sierra Leone. On the contrary, diamonds will bring a serious disaster to that small West African country!

But now is 1988, Sierra Leone will occasionally be called the Little Paris of Africa by Westerners: in order to fight for control of the diamond mine, the 11-year civil war will not explode in Sierra Leone until 1991.

"Is this also the rough stone bought in the Antwerp exchange?"

"No, it is the rough we obtained directly from the Sierra Leone government through our agents in Africa.

The local forces in Antwerp have been trying to prevent us from obtaining top-quality diamonds, but they are unlikely to succeed. "

Jain is pretty sure.

Zhang Nan smiled and said, "You will succeed, my friends."

The Indians will certainly succeed. In the 1990s, when there were 80,000 diamond processing workers in a city in Surat, India, there were only 80,000 diamond workers left in Antwerp!

In the 1970s, there were 25,000 workers processing diamonds in Antwerp.

In a few years, Indians will account for two-thirds of Antwerp’s 30 to 40 billion annual diamond transactions, reducing the share of Jews to a quarter!

For Zhang Nan, it doesn’t really matter where the diamond comes from, even if it’s a "Soviet diamond": Consumers in the Western world always think that the quality of the diamonds produced in the Soviet Union is not good, which is also a political aspect. Strategy.

This kind of propaganda strategy even made Xiang Weirong, Guan Xingquan and others who were Chinese people think that the quality of the diamonds produced in the Soviet Union was not good in the early 1980s! Although before going to the United States, except for the industrial diamonds on the glass knife, the two had never seen any gem-quality diamonds in person!

For western diamond dealers, the most successful operation is to make "Soviet diamond" almost synonymous with man-made diamonds!

This dark...absolutely professional!

Of course, the "Soviet diamond" in Zhang Nan's mind means a natural gem-quality diamond produced in the Soviet Union, and man-made diamonds are unnecessary.

The place of origin does not matter. It does not matter whether it is purchased from the Sierra Leone government or from the "local government" that now actually controls the origin of many diamonds.

Almost a quarter of African diamonds are now "blood diamonds, conflict diamonds". Zhang Nan doesn’t care about these at all: he is not a saint. Just take a few glances while watching the news.

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"Nicole, Jenny, I think the ring design provided by Mr. Jain's company is very good, I think it can be processed here, and bring it back to New York to make trouble."

Several major diamonds are accompanied by a few different decoration design drawings to increase the customer's desire to buy.

Both women gestured to their fingers, and Zhang Nan knew what they thought.

Nicole smiled slightly and said, "If you like something simple, just make a ring."

Speaking of choosing a design drawing from the table, it is the simplest one. It does not have the complicated elements of traditional Indian ornaments: it completely highlights the characteristics of the diamond itself.

On the one hand, Jenny also pulled out a design drawing, "I'm this one."

The same simple, only because Nicole’s fingers are longer and the diamonds are set vertically; the one Jenny chose is set horizontally, which suits her small hands.

The "Eye of Golconda" was also packaged and bought by Zhang Nan for a total of $1.43 million.

Jain and Mehta are very happy. Although the business has given a discount, the two have also made a lot of money!

Zhang Nan estimated that they made at least 10 million yuan. This is still a conservative estimate: unless you master the supply channels of rough stones, the profits will only be made by these diamond predators.

What is the profit of diamonds?

10% of the mining side is the most, and the rough trader is about 15%, and if the processing side such as Jain sells directly by themselves, they will eat the remaining 75%!

If you add a brand-name jewellery dealer like New York, it will add another 20% to 300% profit: the smaller the diamond, the higher the profit ratio.

Jain gave away all the costs of processing the rings and necklaces, and he also gave away the matching stones needed for the necklaces, and he assumed the risks that may exist in the processing. The most experienced expert-level workers will be able to operate them in ten days at most. delivery.

If it is processed at Tiffany, it will take at least three months. People will use that score. Everyone will do the same unless you add money.

Business talks are very happy, the only regret is that a more than 4o carat round diamond carefully prepared by Jain fell into Zhang Nan's eyes. He originally wanted to pair up with "Golconda Words".

As for Guan Xingquan and Xiang Weirong, they didn't mean to buy them at all: Jia Yin didn't know that these two were not good at diamonds, and Mr. Allen's sister already had a set of exaggerated diamonds that were processed by Tiffany.

As for Guan Xingquan, he didn't even have a girlfriend. Even if he needed diamonds, Zhang Nan would pick up the hundreds of diamonds over ten carats left in the safe box.

After chatting for a while, Zhang Nan asked about the current rough supply channels for processed diamonds in India.

"Have you ever thought about directly operating a diamond mine?"

After Zhang Nan got to know it for a while, he suddenly said something like this.

Jain replied with a little frustration: "Of course I have this idea, so that profits can be maximized.

But the diamond mines that can be industrially mined are either under the direct control of De Beers or in the hands of countries like the Soviet Union. We have nowhere to invest even if we want to invest..."

In a word: I have ideas and funds, but Ni-Ma does not have a diamond mine wheel to dig by himself!

Zhang Nan laughed suddenly, very happily, and laughed so that everyone around him was a little baffling.

With a new path to wealth, it is still a big business that can account for about 100 to 200 million U.S. dollars a year!

After laughing, Zhang Nan scowled and said seriously: "I have a diamond mine, and it's a big mine. Are you interested in cooperating?"

This time, apart from Xiang Weirong and Guan Xingquan, they can still maintain the usual calmness. Even Nicole and Jenny are a little uncomfortable, and they glanced at their own man together---never heard him mention it!

Jain and Mehta both glanced at Zhang Nan, and couldn't help it. The two guys talked a few words in Hindi.

They don't know that there is a first-class language genius who can understand their conversation.

Guan Xingquan and Zhang Nan said that he speaks multiple languages, but he omitted Hindi: Rongcheng Military Region often has to teach with Asanda, Guan Xingquan would order a simple Hindi conversation before ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ come to India In the next few days, Indians could not write their own words, but they could basically understand the conversation. I said it at the reception the night before, but Jain didn't know it.

I didn't tell Zhang Nan, it was because I thought it was completely unnecessary before.

You said yours and I said mine. The two Jia Yin thought that the big man was discussing diamond mines. In fact, he was doing simultaneous translation. The big deal was the Yanxian dialect.

By the way, I also asked: "Where do you have a diamond mine?"

"There will be in the second half of the year. There are still five in total, which can account for at least 10% of the world's gem-quality diamond production."

Xiang Weirong on the side inserted a sentence: "How do you want to cooperate with Indians?"

"The diamond business is not reliable for China for 30 years. Only Indians can cooperate. If we cooperate with Delbis, then we can drink some soup at most."

Xiang Weirong didn't ask where the mine was. The environment was not suitable. There was no need to ask too much about it.