Wallace Chan The Stone Is Me Summary

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The article The Jeweler Wallace Chan: ‘The Stone Is Me’ is about the first Chinese jewelry artist to make his name international. Wallace Chan, 59, created the world’s most expensive diamond necklace. The necklace is worth 200 million dollars and weighs 104 carats. The final product took 47,000 hours of work and started in 2010. He has a book that was wrote about him that is titled “Wallace Chan: Dream Light Water,” and is going to be sold for $280 starting January 28. In the article it states that Mr. Chan’s family migrated from Fujian Province to Hong Kong in the 1960s. He began working with his hands at age 8, became interested in precious stones at 16 and at the age of 28 he moved to Macau to study art. In 1985-1987, Wallace developed