Some truly spectacular diamonds have been showing up at the auction houses lately. Once again proving that even in troubling economic times, there will always be a buyer for these rare gems. And even though most of us do not have the amount of capital it takes to own a diamond of this scale, we admire the brilliance and beauty accomplished by nature’s extreme conditions and then cultivated by mankind’s hand. …and a girl can always dream, right?
April 7, 2010 – Sotheby’s Hong Kong auctioned a rare and flawless blue 5.16 carat diamond that was sold for $6.4m. The gemstone, originally from the Da Beers Millennium Collection, is one of 12 in a collection that took decades to put together.
April 11, 2010 – Sotheby’s showed off an extremely rare 52.82 carat white diamond at the auction house in London. The diamond, which has received a first class grading from the GIA whose report states that the stone is Type IIa, is D-colour and has flawless clarity, is to be auctioned in the Magnificent Jewels and Noble Jewels sale in Geneva, Switzerland on May 11 with an estimated price of more than US$7 millions (4.53 million pounds or 5.14 million euro). Sotheby’s also showed off a rare 5.02 carat blue diamond that will be auctioned in the Geneva sale. Estimated price? Between $4m and $7m.
via The Economic Times, Rueters
