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Fancy-colored diamonds such as the deep-blue Hope Diamond are among the most valuable and sought-after diamonds in the world. In 2009, a 7-carat (1.4 g) blue diamond fetched the then highest price per carat ever paid for a diamond when it was sold at auction for 10.5 million Swiss francs (US$9.5 million at the time) which is in excess of US$1.3 ...
Blue diamonds comprise only about 0.02 percent of mined diamonds but include some of the world's most famous jewels. Diamonds are a crystalline form of pure carbon, forming under enormous heat and ...
The Winston Blue is the name given to what was the largest flawless vivid blue diamond [1] [4] [5] bought by Harry Winston, Inc. (a wholly owned subsidiary of The Swatch Group from January 2013) on May 15, 2014, from an anonymous person for $23.8 million at Christie's Geneva Magnificent Jewels sale. The approximately $1.8003 million per carat ...
The diamond is the largest cushion-shaped blue stone classified as "fancy vivid" ever to appear at auction. [ 2 ] The "Blue Moon" sale, according to David Bennett, the head of Sotheby's international jewellery division, set a record for the highest-ever price per carat and it made the diamond both the most expensive jewel ever sold at auction ...
Another deep-blue diamond from Cullinan was auctioned for $10.8m last year and set a world record for the value per carat. [7] On 21 January 2014, Petra Diamonds announced recovery of a 29.6-carat (5.92 g) blue diamond. According to the current CEO, Johan Dippenaar, it is the "most significant blue diamond" to be recovered by Petra Diamonds ...
The Tereshchenko Diamond, sometimes known as the Tereshchenko Blue, is a 42.92 carat diamond of blue colour that is cut in the pear shape. The diamond is rare, belonging to the Type IIb diamond, and believed to originate from India. The Tereshchenko diamond is the second biggest blue diamond in the world.
The Wittelsbach diamond, before being recut by Graff. The original Wittelsbach Diamond, also known as Der Blaue Wittelsbacher, [3] was a 35.56-carat (7.112 g) fancy, deep, greyish-blue diamond with VS2 clarity that had been part of both the Austrian and the Bavarian Crown jewels. [4] Its colour and clarity had been compared to the Hope Diamond ...
The Hope Diamond is a 45.52 carats (9.104 g; 0.3211 oz) diamond that has been famed for its great size since the 18th century. Extracted in the 17th century from the Kollur Mine in Guntur, India, [1] [2] the Hope Diamond is a blue diamond.