Sotheby's Auction House, Luxury Lifestyle & Design News
18th February 2015
BY VIVIENNE BECKER
The astonishing $32.6 million achieved in November by Mrs Paul Mellon’s rare and ravishing blue diamond weighing 9.75 carats crowned a year in which important diamonds proved the invincibility that is part of their legend. The pear-shaped diamond, christened the Zoe Diamond by its Hong Kong buyer, is according to David Bennett, co-Chairman of Sotheby’s International Jewellery division, the most beautiful blue diamond he has ever seen. It set two new records: a world auction record for a blue diamond, and a world auction record of $3.3 million per carat for a diamond. This chart-topping result added to Sotheby’s stable of record-breaking diamonds: the $30.6 million paid in 2013 in Hong Kong for an oval brilliant-cut white diamond, D flawless, and type IIA, the purest and most desirable; the $16.3 million achieved in Geneva in May 2014 for the Graff Vivid Yellow, a colossal 100.09 carat cushion modified brilliant fancy vivid yellow diamond; and by far the most spectacular, the $46.2 million paid in 2010 by Laurence Graff himself for a fancy intense pink diamond weighing 24.78 carats, which set a world record not only for any pink diamond and any colored diamond, but for any jewel. With characteristic audacity, Graff later re-polished the stone to improve the colour and clarity, and renamed it the Graff Pink, a superlative diamond of unrivaled beauty, mystique and majesty.
THE GRAFF PINK. ROUND CORNERED RECTANGULAR STEP-CUT FANCY INTENSE PINK DIAMOND WEIGHING 24.78 CARATS, VVS2 CLARITY, POTENTIALLY FLAWLESS, TYPE IIA. GENEVA, 2010.
THE GRAFF VIVID YELLOW. CUSHION MODIFIED BRILLIANT FANCY VIVID YELLOW DIAMOND, GRAFF, WEIGHING 100.09 CARATS, VS2 CLARITY. FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION. GENEVA, 2014.
OVAL BRILLIANT-CUT DIAMOND, WEIGHING 118.28 CARATS, D COLOUR, FLAWLESS, TYPE IIA. HONG KONG, 2013.
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