A precious emerald and diamond gem worth $1.54 million was stolen from Four Seasons Hotel in Hong Kong. The owner, Swiss millionairess, Caroline Gruosi-Scheufele, said she had left the ring in hotel bathroom after taking it off to wash her hands and when she raced back seven minutes later but it was gone.
Police in Hong Kong are hunting for this precious gemstone ring which was stolen after its socialite owner left it in a hotel bathroom. The stunning piece is a three stone ring with 16.83 carat emerald sitting between two diamonds of 1.15 and 1.29 carats and another 674 small diamonds around the band. Hong Kong police are treating the matter as theft and a $61,770 reward has been offered for its return.
It is not yet clear whether the reward money has been offered by the police or the jewelers themselves.
A police spokesman said: 'A female foreigner left an emerald ring valued at $1.54 million in the washroom on the fourth floor of the Four Seasons Hotel in Hong Kong.
It is feared the ring could already have been disassembled and sold off through Hong Kong's network of small jewelers and pawn shops.
Originally a watchmaker, Chopard, recently signed the Hollywood star Uma Thurman to wear its products. The company was founded in 1860 by Louis-Ulysse Chopard.
It was bought by Mrs Gruosi-Scheufele’s parents, Karl and Karin Scheufele, in 1963.