Jaguar Offers Luxury Car in Return for Lost Diamond

Luxury carmaker Jaguar is offering a $65,000 X-series car as a reward for anyone who finds and returns a $200,000 diamond that was fitted to the nose cone of a Formula One car that crashed in Sunday's Monaco Grand Prix.

A spokesman said the team was planning to scour the streets of Monaco for the button-sized gem that vanished when rookie driver Christian Klien ploughed into the barrier on his first lap.

Klien crashed at a hairpin bend at 113 kilometers per hour, spreading debris over about 200 meters.

"We're searching a very large area for a very small diamond," Jaguar spokesman Nav Sidhu said. "We're not expecting someone to turn up and say, 'Hey, we've found your diamond'."

The team had a diamond fitted on the nose of both their racecars as part of a sponsorship tie-up with Israel’s Steinmetz Diamond Group.

The Jaguars were also advertising the forthcoming Hollywood movie Ocean's 12, which involves an international heist - featuring, of course, diamonds and Jaguar cars.

The Jaguar team had another car in the race sporting a $200,000 diamond which made it safely back to the team’s garage.

Some source material reprinted with permission from IDEX Magazine (http://www.idexonline.com/).