Due to White Topaz’s relative hardness and dispersion, when colorless and inclusion free, it is often used as a Diamond alternative. However, the similarity ends there, as Topaz is abundant compared to Diamond and therefore costs a fraction
Topaz, like Diamond, possesses so much fire that when Portuguese jewelers crafted the Portuguese Crown Jewels in the late 16th Century they named a 1680 carat Topaz: the 'Braganza Diamond'