Overview
- Slater Jones, a jeweler from Alabama, commissioned a custom artificial eye featuring a real two-carat diamond embedded in the iris.
- Coverage identifies the ocularist inconsistently as John Imm or John Lim, who describes the piece as his most valuable work in materials.
- The maker says the fabrication took about six weeks with precision molding to securely set the stone within the prosthetic.
- Jones and some reports put the cost near $2 million and label it the most expensive prosthetic eye, a characterization not independently confirmed.
- The story went viral with reactions mixing admiration and safety concerns, as Jones adopts the “Diamond Eye” persona after losing his right eye to toxoplasmosis in his teens.