It’s estimated to sell for up to $1.3 million at the upcoming sale on March 28.
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A new display at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County features dozens of gemstones each weighing 100 carats or more.
From record-setting gems to celebrities and controversy, Associate Editor Lauren McLemore looks back on the year’s most intriguing sales.
The Choron Group has acquired the diamond, which Storm Mountain Diamonds recovered in Lesotho earlier this year.
Additional lots will be offered in the Fine Jewels online sale through Dec. 7.
The 15.48-carat fancy intense “Pink Supreme” topped Christie’s fall jewelry auction in Asia, while a Patek Philippe led the watch sale.
The stone headlining the upcoming sale could fetch up to $5 million.
A buyer paid $44 million for the 17.61-carat fancy vivid blue diamond.
The fancy vivid blue diamond was estimated to sell for as much as $37 million at Sotheby’s Hong Kong.
The 17.61-carat stone leads Christie’s “Magnificent Jewels” sale in Geneva this November.
Sotheby’s Hong Kong will offer the 11.28-carat fancy vivid blue diamond at a single-lot sale in October.
Lucara said it’s the 20th stone weighing more than 100 carats the mine has produced this year.
This ring is set with a 1.36-carat fancy deep pink diamond from Australia’s Argyle mine.
The “Estrela de Fura” is now the most expensive ruby ever sold at auction, while the purplish pink diamond set a couple records of its own.
Plus, the Van Cleef & Arpels cuff once belonging to Marlene Dietrich sold for $4.5 million.
The D-color, internally flawless, Type IIa stone will be offered without reserve.
The fancy vivid blue diamond topped the Sotheby’s Geneva “Magnificent Jewels and Noble Jewels” sale.
Priyanka Chopra Jonas wore the 11.16-carat pear-shaped blue diamond to the event.
Awaiting a name, the rare gem is one of the largest pink diamonds ever recovered.
Sotheby’s will auction the diamond, which it says is “arguably the most significant pink diamond to ever appear at auction,” in June.
A column detailing how independent jewelers did last year and the top watch brands of 2022 were among the most-read stories last week.
Purchased directly from Rio Tinto, the collection consists of pinks, purples and one red, none larger than 1.52 carats.
It says a lot about millennial and Gen-Z consumer attitudes, writes Senior Editor Ashley Davis.
This 10.67-carat diamond, graded a natural fancy gray by two major labs, was part of Sotheby’s “Magnificent Jewels” sale last week.