A pear-shaped 18-carat pink diamond offered at a Geneva public sale for 28.4 million Swiss francs ($28.8 million), which incorporates charges and taxes, on the low finish of the anticipated vary.
The “Fortune Pink” fancy fiery pink stone, stated to be the most important of its type and dimension to go on the block, headlines the jewellery at Christie’s newest Geneva sale. It was anticipated to obtain between $25 million and $35 million.
The public sale home stated an unidentified Asian purchaser snatched the diamond.
Max Fawcett, head of Christie’s jewellery division in Geneva, stated the stone, a powerful, saturated pink hue, was mined in Brazil 15 years in the past. He declined to establish its proprietor, however described the diamond as “a true miracle of nature”.
Christie’s says that the primary pink diamonds ever recorded have been discovered within the Golconda mines of India within the sixteenth century, earlier than different centuries in locations like Africa, Australia, Brazil and Russia adopted.
One mannequin has an 18.18-carat pink diamond referred to as “Fortune Pink”, which may fetch US$30 million throughout a preview at Christie’s earlier than the public sale sale in Geneva, Switzerland. (Reuters/Dennis Ballybouse)
The Pink Stone public sale befell after visiting showrooms in New York, Shanghai, Singapore and Taiwan earlier than arriving in Geneva.
Tobias Cormind, managing director of on-line diamond jeweler 77 Diamonds, described the sale worth as disappointing.
“The extraordinary Fortune Pink diamond sold in Geneva, weighing an auspicious 18.18 carats, which is a symbol of prosperity in Asia, sadly did not lead to fortunes or uplift many people had hoped for,” he stated.
He instructed that the end result might be a mirrored image of a “volatile global economy” and different monetary components that “are giving rise to concerns, even among the top echelons of wealthy buyers.”
The public sale comes six months after Christie’s offered it – a 228-carat egg-shaped white diamond billed as the most important of its type to go up for public sale – for greater than $21.75 million, together with charges. That too was on the low finish of the anticipated vary.
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