World record: a gold chain several kilometers long
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Gold rings, earrings and bracelets often amaze with their dazzling luxury and elegance. But can a gold chain surprise you somehow? It turns out it can. With one corrective — if we are talking about a chain made for the 20th anniversary of the Dubai Shopping Festival. The unusual piece of jewelry amazes with its incredible length thanks to which it set a Guinness World Record.
More than 4 million links were made from 22-carat gold, which took 100 craftsmen from Dubai Gold and Jewellery Group 45 days to make. The result is the world’s longest handmade gold chain. It is more than 5.5 kilometers long and weighs 240 kilograms. The luxurious exhibit was put on public display in January 2015 near the gold market in Dubai.
The item was called the Dubai Celebration Chain. Anyone could become the owner of a piece of this real handmade miracle by ordering a chain fragment weighing from 8 to 26 grams in advance. Each fragment was assigned a unique code confirming that it is part of an object listed in the Guinness World Records.
Let’s imagine that the Dubai Celebration Chain was stretched out in a straight line and laid on the ground. The average human walking speed is about 5 kilometers per hour. It would take you about an hour to walk from one end of the chain to the other!
Interestingly, the Dubai Gold and Jewellery Group broke its own world record set in 1999. Then its specialists created a gold chain 4.28 kilometers long.
It is logical to assume that the 5-kilometer chain made by Dubai craftsmen is not the only gold product listed in the Guinness World Records. Do you want to know the weight of the world’s largest gold bar? Read our article about “golden giants”.
