SHINING IN SHANGHAI: Graff is kicking off a global exhibition tour marking its 65th anniversary with the opening of a one-week showcase in Shanghai on Saturday.

Until Sept. 21 at the West Bund Orbit, a cultural center along the banks of the Huangpu River in the Xihui financial district, some 350 pieces retrace the story that began when a 15-year-old Laurence Graff became an apprentice in the Hatton Gardens jewelry district of London .

By the time he opened his namesake company in 1960, his eye for diamonds was well established. What comes next is chronicled through seven areas spread across a nearly 14,000-square-foot space.

In one room, over 30 facsimiles of the house’s famous diamond — roughs and cut gems — are on display, including the Windsor Yellows, acquired at a Geneva auc

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