Pink diamond sells for $1million per carat in New York

Another week, another auction, and so it seems, another record-breaking pink diamond goes under the hammer.

Last week saw a new Asian record with the sale of a 14.23 carat rectangular-cut ‘fancy intense’ pink diamond, known as “The Perfect Pink”, for $23.17 million (more...)

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Londoner pays world record price of £29 million for pink diamond

In Geneva yesterday Sotheby’s auctioned off a very rare 24.78 carat pink diamond and it went for a world record price.

The bidding war for Lot 550 was won by billionaire British diamond dealer Laurence Graff, who paid a hammer price of 40,500,000 Swiss francs (more...)

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Record prices paid for diamonds in Sotheby’s Hong Kong sale

The global recession seems to have bypassed Hong Kong as records tumbled at Sotheby’s ‘Magnificent Jewels and Jadeite’ autumn sale last week.

The total auction was expected to fetch around US$47 million but came in 15% ahead of that target with total sales of $54 million (more...)

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