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Singaporeans might be familiar with socialite Jamie Chua for having one of the world's largest collections of Hermes handbags, but did you know about her love for jewellery as well?
Showing off her extensive collection of baubles in a recent video, Chua revealed that she cried for days after losing her $30,000 Cartier earring — that's one side of a pair. Who wouldn't?
In a vlog of her jewellery collection uploaded on YouTube last week, the former Singapore Airlines stewardess shared how she realised one side of her earrings was missing after returning from an event at a club.
The earring was a limited edition item too, which meant that it had to be specially ordered.
She had to wait six to eight months before it was ready, flying to Paris earlier this year to collect the mini Panthere earring she's nicknamed Pika.
As a gesture probably extended only to their VIPs, Cartier engraved her name on the jewellery box, "which made me feel a little bit better after blowing $30,000," Chua quipped. For safekeeping however, the earrings have never left the house since.
While it was a traumatic experience for her to lose something that valuable, she confessed that it was not her first time, having lost an emerald bracelet at an event many years ago. That too, was never found.
Chua has also cried over jewellery in other ways.
When she was in her mid-twenties, she recounted coming across a Van Cleef & Arpels Envol butterfly ring sitting in a showcase and cried because she could not afford it.
https://www.asiaone.com/lifestyle/jamie-chua-cried-4-days-after-losing-her-30000-cartier-earring
