(idexonline.com) - Jewelers in India have done something unusual. They've created a ring with more diamonds than any other - 50,907 to be precise - which has earned them a Guinness World Record. But the number of diamonds is not, for me, the unusual part. I have no doubt that with enough time, skill and resources the record set by H.K. Designs and Hari Krishna Exports will soon be broken. Especially with the loosest possible definition of what a ring is.What I found unusual was the fact that every one of the 50,907 diamonds, a total weight of just over 130 carats, was recycled. As indeed was every gram of gold (total weight 460 grams).
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