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Fancy Vivid Purple-Pink Diamond Ring Sets Record at Sotheby’s Sale
Oct. 07, 2014 04:17PM PST
Gem Investing
Rapaport reported that the top lot at Sotheby’s Magnificent Jewels and Jadeite sale was an 8.41-carat, internally flawless, fancy vivid purple-pink diamond ring that sold for $17,768,041, or $2.1 million per carat.
Rapaport reported that the top lot at Sotheby’s Magnificent Jewels and Jadeite sale was an 8.41-carat, internally flawless, fancy vivid purple-pink diamond ring that sold for $17,768,041, or $2.1 million per carat. That is a world auction record.
As quoted in the market news:
Rounding out the top three lots, a 3.32-carat, internally flawless, fancy vivid blue, emerald-cut diamond ring sold for $5,355,670 and a 35.72-carat, step-cut emerald and diamond ring achieved a sales price of $4,345,361.
Sotheby’s stated that a 17.16-carat, unheated Kashmir sapphire and diamond ring set a world record price per carat of $236,404, for a total sales price of $4,056,701.