Diamonds are very expensive gems. It could take a long while for someone to save enough money to buy one carat of the precious stone.

For the daring thieves who stole the Crown Jewels at the famous Louvre museum in Paris on 19 October, it took them only four minutes to bag $102 million worth of gems, mainly diamonds.

The thieves even committed the heist in broad daylight, when the museum opened to visitors at 9 a.m.

Among the jewels taken away was a brooch that belonged to Empress Eugénie, the wife of Napoleon III, which was created around 1855 and contained 94 diamonds with an estimated value of $13 million.

Meanwhile, Micherre Fox, a 31-year-old strategy consultant from New York City, also acquired a diamond, but it took her much longer and was not as easy to get.

Fox wanted to have a diamond on her engagement ring so she went to the Crater of Diamonds State Park in Arkansas on 8 July to look for one. The park is a public mine where people can dig for a diamond for a $15 fee per day. If they find one, the diamond is theirs.

After 21 days of digging, Fox stumbled on a 2.3-carat stone on her last day at the park on 29 July, Good Morning America reports. So under the park’s rules, the diamond was hers.