The necklace disappeared around 1948.
In 1982, at a Sotheby’s auction in Geneva, the necklace reappeared. There, it was sold $3.16 million.
In 1998, the missing part of the necklace was found at a second-hand jewelry shop in London by an unnamed buyer. The remaining large jewels were missing, in particular, the Burmese rubies as well as the 18 to 73 carat stones that were mounted on a
pendant. Cartier purchased the incomplete necklace and, after four years, restored it to resemble the original. They replaced the lost diamonds with cubic zirconia and synthetic diamonds
and mounted a replica of the original De Beers diamond.