Chapter 1671

One day in 1973, the yacht of "Pearl King" docked in Saint Tropez, France. A French young man named Jean Claude Bruyer came to visit from a nearby yacht.

Bruyer had just sold his air transport company and used the money to buy an island in French Polynesia, where the coral reefs are surrounded by blue water and can be called a paradise on earth. Only from the view of the scenery, it is better than Daqin fishing ground.

Bruyer told El Salvador that black butterfly shellfish are abundant in the local glittering and translucent sea water, and a rare treasure: Black Pearl is produced in the shell of black butterfly shellfish.

Since then, black pearl, as the pride in the luxury jewelry market, began to emerge slowly.

At that time, there was no market for black pearls and few people bought them. But Bruyer persuaded El Salvador to develop the product and cooperate to collect black pearls for sale in the world market.

But El Salvador's first battle was disadvantageous: the color of the Pearl was poor, gray and dark, and the size was not good. Just like the small bullets used in the early muskets, people were used to white pearls and were not interested in such small black beads. In this way, El Salvador didn't even sell one, and returned to Polynesia without success.

At this point, asawado could have given up black pearls and sold them to discount stores at a low price, or matched them with some white pearls to make jewelry and sell them. But El Salvador did not do so. He waited another year.

They worked hard to improve some good varieties, and then took the samples to meet an old friend, Harry Winston, a legendary gem merchant. Winston agreed to display the pearls in his Fifth Avenue shop window at an incredibly high price.

At the same time, El Salvador has continuously published full page advertisements in several influential and beautifully printed magazines. In the advertisement, a string of Tahiti black pearls glittered against the background of diamonds, rubies and emeralds.

Not long ago, the Pearl was contained in clusters of black edged oyster shells and hung on a rope in the Polynesian sea. Now it has come to New York City, surrounded by the pink neck of the most popular opera actress, and swaggered through Manhattan. In this way, the original thing that did not know its value was finally held as a rare treasure by El Salvador.

However, in Vincent's view, the value of black pearls is not only here. With the gradual warming of black mysterious culture in the world, the value of black pearls has been far better than white pearls and little better than gold pearls. More and more people like them, which shows that their value should be greater and greater.

If you hype it, Vincent thinks there is still a lot of room to improve the price of black pearls, so he has an idea.

"If we buy your pearls, Qin, I mean all the pearls here, what do you think?" Asked Vincent.

Qin Shiou smiled and Vincent took the bait. His second idea needed him to think so, but he couldn't turn over the bottom card, but shook his head and said, "no, Mr. Tiffany, you know the value gap between black pearls and a full set of black pearls, right? To be honest, I have a close relationship with the Black family of Lee's auction house. As long as I get the jewelry, I can hold a special auction and make more profits. "

Vincent said, "but it's not fair enough for us, is it? If you launch such a full set of jewelry, the value of our black pearls will decline. Moreover, I'm a luxury merchant and a jewelry designer. You showed me 2000 black pearls and told me they couldn't belong to me. That hurt me too much! "

Qin Shiou sat down and stroked the black pearls with his hands. Liv and Kassel looked at the pearls nervously for fear that he would accidentally sweep them to the ground. That would be a pity. Vincent was looking at his expression, hoping to win the two thousand black pearls.

After pretending to think for a while, senior official Qin asked seriously, "do you want to buy these black pearls? All, more than two thousand? "

Vincent said, "yes, and I can pay in cash!"

Qin Shiou pretended to be very tangled and frowned. He thought about it for a while and asked, "to tell the truth, Mr. Tiffany, how much are you willing to pay?"

Vincent said: "this requires my team to assess and rate the Pearl texture. We have a professional valuation team..."

Qin Shiou waved his hand and said, "if the texture of these black pearls is as good as the one just sold to you, give me a valuation first. How much are you willing to pay?"

So it's Vincent's turn to think about it. He winked at liv and Kassel. They left, leaving only him and Qin Shiou, more than 2000 black pearls. This is about Tiffany's future development strategy. A lot of information needs to be kept confidential.

"At least 140 million dollars!" Vincent said after calculating for a while.

Qin Shiou smiled and said, "how much do you think the queen of the dark night is worth? And the black pearls used can't be compared with those I have in my hand. Now I can make ten sets of dark night queen, sunny queen and even star queen! "

"Well, what price do you want me to offer?" Vincent sighed.

"I don't want the price. I want to take a stake in Tiffany with the final value of these black pearls!" Qin Shiou said his real purpose.

Yes, by taking a stake in Tiffany, he wants to join this huge luxury empire. Even if he only shares a small part of the Empire, it is better than selling black pearls for money. Tiffany is a chicken that can lay golden eggs. Qin Shiou wants to buy the ownership of the chicken, not one or two golden eggs.

With the rapid increase of black butterfly shells and the huge red coral at the bottom of the sea, he has too many gemstones in his hand. If it is only used to sell money, he will make less and less money in the future, because he can throw too many red corals and black pearls, which will impact the market price.

Rare things are precious. When they are no longer rare, they are worthless.

Therefore, only by converting these gemstones into luxury jewelry can he create the greatest interests, and it is unreliable for him to set up a jewelry store. Jewelry needs historical details, so he wants to take a stake in Tiffany.

After listening to his words, Vincent was startled and asked in disbelief, "do you want to share my empire only with these black pearls? Just some black pearls? "

Qin Shiou shrugged and said, "no, there are red corals in addition to black pearls."

"That's impossible!" Vincent smiled and looked at Qin Shiou with contempt. In this regard, he has this confidence. Tiffany is the leader in the world luxury industry!

Qin Shiou said lightly, "what about providing 2000 black pearls and 100 grams of deep-sea Red Coral every year? I think if you're not interested in this, Cartier and Bulgari should be interested. "

Vincent frowned. It's hard to do today.