The largest pink diamond for sale.. its price reaches 35 million dollars
Christie's has announced that a giant pink diamond, an extremely rare gem, will be auctioned in Geneva in November and could fetch up to $35 million.
This 18-carat gem is the largest pear-shaped pink diamond of this quality ever to be auctioned, according to Christie's.
The diamond, which will be auctioned for the first time on November 8, has been valued at between $25 million and $35 million.
The diamond is set on a ring, flanked on both sides by a large white diamond.
This diamond weighs exactly 18.18 carats, a number that bears positive connotations, according to Christie's.
"Its decent weight of 18.18 carats (...) actually brings good luck to the new owner," Christie's expert Angela Bearden told AFP.
"Beautiful stone, it is very rare to find a pink diamond, a light pink diamond, of this size, and I don't know where to find another similar diamond," she added.
The "Fortune Pink" is the largest bright pink pear-shaped diamond ever to be auctioned, but other larger cushion-shaped diamonds have been sold.
In 2018, Christie's sold a stunning 18.96-carat pink "legacy" pink diamond for more than 50 million Swiss francs, or $49.9 million at the time, a record price per carat for a stone of this color.
This emerald-cut diamond, discovered about a century ago in South Africa, was purchased by the American jewelry company Harry Winston, a subsidiary of the Swiss watch group Swatch, which promptly renamed it Winston Pink Legacy.
The year before, the "Raj Pink", the world's largest 37.3-carat dense pink diamond auctioned by Sotheby's, could not find a buyer.
Its value was estimated at up to $30 million.
