22-carat diamond ring with 'world's best couple' title up for grabs

Wellington, Oct 5 (ANI): A jeweller in New Zealand is set to launch an international competition to find the "world's best couple" and is offering the successful couple a 22-carat princess-cut diamond ring.he retailer will start the Search for the World's Best Couple contest in New York's Rockefeller Centre later this month reported the Jeweller magazine.

Kim Kardashian, an American reality TV performer, will model the ring at its launch.

After that, chief executive Michael Hill will tour nine cities to show off the diamond ring.

Couples who enter the contest will compete in a series of online challenges, and a panel of judges will choose a winner from six short-listed couples.

The winning pair will be flown to Chicago to be presented with the diamond, which Hill said was one of the highest grades of the gem he had ever seen.

The 22-carat ring is surrounded by 0.60 carats of accent diamonds set in platinum.

"The cut, clarity, colour and carat of this diamond is absolutely brilliant," Stuff.co.nz quoted Hill as saying in a statement.

The contest is open to couples in Australia, New Zealand, the United States and Canada, as long as they are dating, engaged or already married.(ANI)