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The Graff Pink: Most expensive pink diamond price per carat ever paid at auction [36] Pink Legacy Fancy vivid pink cut-cornered rectangular-cut diamond of 18.96 carats, purchased by Harry Winston in 2018, formerly owned by the Oppenheimer family. [37] The Condé Diamond: Gifted in 1643 by Louis XII or XIV to the Prince of Condé, Louis de ...
Detailed view of the recreated great Golden Fleece of king Louis XV of France. Below the 107 carats (21.4 g) spinel Côte de Bretagne hangs the French Blue diamond and the fleece itself, set with hundreds of yellow diamond replicas. The Tavernier Blue was the precursor diamond to the Blue Diamond of the French Crown (aka the French Blue).
The pink, cushion-cut, 34.65-carat Princie Diamond used to be part of the Jewels of the Nizams of Hyderabad; it was auctioned in 2013 by Christie's and sold for US$ 39.3 million, which is the highest-recorded auction price for a Golconda diamond and a world record for US$ 1.1 million per carat.
The Samarian Spinel is the largest known spinel in the world, weighing 500 carats (100 g). [13] The transparent red spinels were called spinel-rubies [14] or balas rubies. [15] In the past, before the arrival of modern science, spinels and rubies were equally known as rubies.
A single carat of morganite can cost about $300. [12] Morganite is one of the rarest members of the beryl family, second only to red beryl. Due to the scarcity of morganites, especially those of high quality, they tend to be among the most expensive per carat. [13] Ones that are deep pink in color tend to be the most valuable. [14]
The Pink Star, formerly known as the Steinmetz Pink, [1] is a diamond weighing 59.60 carats (11.92 g), rated in color as Fancy Vivid Pink by the Gemological Institute of America. The Pink Star was mined by De Beers in 1999 in South Africa , and weighed 132.5 carats in the rough. [ 1 ]
In 1947, the mine's founder Dr. John Williamson presented Princess Elizabeth (later Elizabeth II) with a flawless 54-carat (10.8 g) pink diamond (the Williamson Pink Diamond) on her wedding day. The eventual 23.6-carat (4.72 g) cut diamond became the centre stone in the Williamson Diamond brooch and is supposedly the basis for the Pink Panther ...
The Graff Pink is a rare 24.78 carat pink diamond, once owned by American celebrity jeweller Harry Winston. The diamond, mounted in a ring, was sold by Sotheby's auctioneers in Geneva , Switzerland on 16 November 2010.