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Real “Titanic” Necklace to
Benefit Diana’s Trust 

Movie’s Paste Necklace Recreated with
Real Jewels 

March 11, 1998

DIANE SAWYER 
Four years ago, a group of Paramount producers asked
Asprey London, the royal jewelers, if they could build a
prop for their movie, a necklace for a little movie called
“Titanic.” They had no idea, of course, that the film would
be the first movie to gross a billion dollars and receive 14
Academy Award nominations. They made that necklace
out of cubic zirconia, but now they’re making it again, and
this time it’s for real. 

KATE WINSLET (clip from “Titanic”) Good gracious.
                   
                   
DIANE SAWYER (VO) That’s the one they made four years ago—fabulous, 
but fake.
                   
                   
BILLY ZANE (clip from “Titanic”) It was worn by Louis
XVI and they called it “Le Coeur de la Mer.”
                   
                   
DIANE SAWYER (VO) To make the real Coeur de la Mer, they had to
find a sapphire that was, well, big. Terry Davidson (ph) is the
head of jewelry for Asprey.
                   
                   
TERRY DAVIDSON, ASPREY LONDON We went to
America and we went to the Far East. We went to the
Near East and we went to Europe. And I looked at five
stones in total before this particular stone came in. When
it came in, I looked at it and I said, “This is the stone. This
is the stone.” It’s funny, you know, we have a saying, “It
talked to me,” and this is what it did. It really did talk.
                   
                   
DIANE SAWYER (VO) The stone is from Sri Lanka,
originally a 174—carat triangle. They lost a few carats
re—cutting it into a heart. Then five men worked day and
night for three weeks to get it ready, ready to be auctioned  
off at a gala ball in Los Angeles in honor of Princess Diana.
                   
                   
TANIA FOSTER—BROWN, ASPREY LONDON The Princess of Wales, as a
member of the British royal family, obviously has been to Asprey
frequently and shopped with us. And we felt extremely distressed
when we heard of her tragic death earlier last year and we want
to do anything we could to raise money for some important funds
and causes in her memory.
                   
                   
DIANE SAWYER (VO) They hope it will bring in more than 
$4 million at auction. Potential buyers please
note—You get 36 carats of diamonds, too. And those
weren’t easy to find, either.
                   
                   
TERRY DAVIDSON You don’t buy them off the shelf.
You buy those which are as near as possible and then
you cut them to match, so each one corresponds with its
opposite partner and is the same size.
                   
                   
DIANE SAWYER (VO) Each one positioned and
repositioned and re—repositioned, using beeswax and
hand tools, and experience. And then setting the
centerpiece, the Coeur de la Mer, “the heart of the sea.”
                   
                   
PAUL PROSSER, ASPREY LONDON JEWELER
This particular sapphire is 171 carats, which is one of the
largest sapphires I’ve ever set, if not the largest, and the
most beautiful.
                   
                   
DIANE SAWYER (VO) The necklace in the movie had
to survive icebergs, floods, lifeboats, gunshots, an
upside—down ocean line and the freezing Atlantic. But
the real necklace only has to survive the auction and, two
days later, the Oscar telecast on the neck of Celine Dion.
                   
                   
CELINE DION (singing) Near, far Wherever you are, I
believe that the heart does go on.
                   
                   
DIANE SAWYER (on camera) And while Celine has to
wait, I don’t. I have it right here in my hot little hands.
We’ve been trying it on around here all evening. You
should know that this was modeled after a design that
Asprey’s confirmed would have been the kind of thing
they may have made back in 1912, at the time of the
“Titanic.”
And lest you think that my honest face has garnered
me any special privileges here, I want you to—can you
pan back? Can you see Mike and William, my constant
companions, not going to let me substitute the little paste
model that I made at home.
So as we said, in 10 days the necklace will be
auctioned by Sotheby’s at a charity ball in Beverly Hills to
raise money for the Princess Diana Memorial Trust.

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