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How did a flawless $200K diamond go missing in an F1 crash?

Talk about a bad day at the office. Claims adjusters, this might keep you up at night.

By Patricia Harman | Updated on September 04, 2014

Most people would put a diamond worth over $200,000 (£140,000) in a piece of jewelry, but apparently not if it’s being used as part of a promotion for Ocean’s Twelve.

Promoters of the 2004 film starring George Clooney and Brad Pitt thought it would be clever to place a flawless diamond described as “roughly the size of a button” on the front of a car driven by 20-year-old Austrian driver Christian Klien as part of a publicity stunt. Klien was a member of Jaguar’s Formula One team and the diamond was embedded in the nose cone of his car. A similar diamond was placed in the nose cone of a second car driven by Mark Webber.

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