Narrator: Bobby White is an award-winning jeweler
who's made pieces for everyone
from Beyoncé to Rihanna.
He even built a diamond-coated car badge
for his own Mercedes-AMG C63.
That's why when a client from Italy came to him
looking for something to put on his Lamborghini SUV,
Bobby had the idea to outdo his previous car project.
It resulted in a white gold Lamborghini badge
covered in $40,000 worth of diamonds and gems
arranged to look like an Italian flag.
Bobby White: Yeah, so the first thing we done,
we got the white gold.
We used the furnace.
So, we melt it up first,
and then once we've poured it into the skillet,
we'll obviously wait for it to cool down.
We flatten it off,
so it becomes a perfect sheet of metal.
I think we laid the Lamborghini badge
on top of the piece of metal.
Narrator: Once he was satisfied
with the measurements,
Bobby traced the badge onto the white gold
and began using a jeweler's saw to cut it out.
He then repeated the process
with a sheet of yellow gold
and used a compass to trace out what would become
the outline plate of the badge.
Bobby: But also, the Lamborghini badge,
it was swaged. It's not a flat piece of metal.
So we had to then curve it, which took quite a long time
to get to that shape of the bonnet.
Otherwise, it wouldn't have sat on the car quite flat.
You can then move it over, and we started to
work out how we're going to map the stones out.
Obviously, you've got diamonds,
you've got rubies, and you've got emeralds.
Rubies and emeralds are
just as expensive as diamonds now.
I think there's probably 5 or 6 carat of each.
So it's not a cheap project.
After the piece of metal is in the right shape,
marking out all them stones takes so long.
We got every divide line marked and counted.
We literally hand-drill every single hole.
We cut all the metal so every stone
has got four tiny little claws.
Narrator: The claws that Bobby's referring to
are tiny prongs of metal
carved up around where the stones are set.
Once a diamond is placed,
the claws are pressed down around it
to ensure it stays put.
Bobby: On the emeralds, we wanted the metal
to look black behind it.
So we black-rhodium-plated behind the emeralds.
The diamonds was left white gold,
and the rubies we plated in a red gold.
The pink solution was just blocking off
so the black didn't spill into the white
or the red plate didn't spill into
the white or the black.
It's not painted, it's electroplated.
So, when I put it into the machine,
know when it's bubbling?
That's a really thin layer of a gold plate going on
and a really thin layer of a black rhodium plate going on.
It doesn't affect the diamonds,
because the rhodium plating just attaches to the metal.
So it doesn't touch the stones,
so you can plate it after the diamonds
and stones are set.
You can then plate the metal behind
and make them different colors.
So when we was doing it,
they had the laser exhibition downstairs.
Just a coincidence. So we went down there,
and they laser-engraved the "Lambo" for us.
So that was a real coincidence
it was down there,
but we've actually got the machine in the workshop now.
The bull, so we actually went
and bought a badge from Lamborghini,
and we scanned it,
and then Tommy took it over to a computer.
He sort of beefed it up a little bit
so there's more detail in it,
and then we had it cast in 18-karat gold.
Again, I had to shape it a lot more with the tools.
You'll see me go over the top a bit.
Narrator: Bobby finished the project
by flying to Italy and overseeing
its installation on his client's car,
then making sure it could handle
a few hot laps on the track.
Since then, he's received multiple inquiries
for custom Lamborghini badges,
even building a special one
for 2022's Gumball 3000 supercar rally.