Category Archives: Jewelry
BULGARI “RARE” BLUE DIAMOND RING
Although, colored diamonds are in vogue these days, a blue diamond is the rarest and most expensive one. One such blue diamond ring is being auctioned at Bonhams. The ring made by Bulgari will be offered at the Fine Jewellery Sale at Bonhams, New Bond Street, London on September 21st.
This amazingly shining ring has never been seen at any auction before and is being sold by a private European collector. Bulgari was a very well-known brand in 1960s and it was then when the collector’s father bespoke the ring from a renowned Italian jewellery house as a gift for his wife.
Bulgari is always known for its simplicity and elegance and this ring is an example of one such piece. The ring has two crossover diamonds in pear shape set diagonally. The white diamond weighs 3.93 carats, D color and is certified as VS2 clarity whereas the blue diamond that has been rated as highest grading for a colored diamond weighs 3.72 and SI2 clarity. The ring is expected to fetch somewhere around $965,000-1,287,000.
As Jean Ghika, Director of Jewellery, states, “Not only is this jewel an exquisite example of Bulgari’s craftsmanship but the fancy vivid blue diamond is an incredibly rare gem in its own right. Bonhams is honoured to have been chosen to handle the sale of this magnificent ring”.
Earlier, Bonhams has set records for selling jewelry at their Fine Jewellery Sales and has sold many intricately-designed pieces of jewelry by Cartier, Tiffany, Van Cleef & Arpels and Andrew Grima.
WORLD’S MOST EXPENSIVE DIAMOND RINGS
An amazing pink diamond ring that is studded with five carats of diamond is the world’s most expensive diamond ring. The ring was auctioned in Hong Kong for a record $10.8 million.
Next in the most expensive list is the vivid blue diamond ring that was sold at the Sotheby’s auction. The ring weighs six carats and has a beautiful blue diamond. The diamonds are set on a platinum ring with emerald cut diamonds on both the sides of the blue diamond. The price on this is $7.9 million dollars.
A pure white diamond ring that fetched $4.2 million at Christie’s Important Jewels sale in New York is next on the list. An oval cut diamond that weighs 46.51-carat is placed in a platinum ring and has VVS2 diamond mounted with E color clarity.
This platinum diamond ring is from the Elizabeth Taylor Jewelry House, Los Angeles and costs $ 1.3 million. The stunning oval diamond
ring weighs 5.98 carats and is surrounded by 3.96 carats of round diamonds making a flower around it.
The De Beers Platinum diamond ring perfectly dazzles in nine-carat diamond stone. This beautiful piece of jewelry costs $1.83 million.
Although this ring is last on the list, this is surely one of the most attractive pieces of ring one can have. The yellow color of the ring is what makes it different from other regular rigs. This Novo Yellow Diamond Ring was sold by Tiffany’s for $1.35 million. The diamond weighs 25.27 karats and is set in a yellow gold platinum ring.
RARE PINK DIAMOND SELLS FOR $10.8 MILLION
An extremely rare translucent pink diamond fetched a price of $10.8 million at a Sotheby’s auction on Tuesday, the third-highest price ever paid for one of the pink stones at auction.
“It is the third-highest price for a pink diamond at auction,” auctioneer David Bennett told journalists after the sale.
The 10.99-carat, emerald-cut stone was classed as a type IIa diamond, with the type II category making up less than two percent of gem diamonds.
The pure colour of the diamond, mounted in a ring, is classified as “Fancy Intense Pink” by the Gemological Institute of America (GIA).
Stones in this category are the most chemically pure and often have a rare transparency. They have been found in India and in more recent times in Brazil and Africa.
Valued earlier at between 8.3 and 14.8 million Swiss francs, the pink diamond had come from a private collection and had not appeared on the market for more than 30 years.
Sotheby’s said it was one of the highlights of its “Magnificent Jewels and Noble Jewels” auction in Geneva Tuesday.
Another was an emerald and diamond tiara dating from 1900, as well as Kashmir sapphires and Burmese rubies.
The tiara sold for $10 million, not including commission, at the top end of how it had been earlier valued.
“I do not think that the market for coloured diamonds has ever been as strong as it is today,” Bennett said.
A 24.78-carat Fancy Intense Pink diamond was sold for a record $46.16 million at a Sotheby’s auction in Geneva in November.
WORLD’S MOST EXPENSIVE TIARA
A dazzling tiara featuring emeralds believed to have belonged to Eugenie, wife of Napoleon III, sold for a record 11.28 million Swiss francs ($12.80 million) to an anonymous buyer at Sotheby’s.
The diamond and emerald tiara was commissioned by German prince Guido Henckel von Donnersmarck’s for his second wife Katharina.
It was top lot at a sale that netted 78.9 million Swiss francs, third highest for a jewellery sale, the auction house said.
“It is needless to say a world record price at auction for a tiara,” said David Bennett, chairman of Sotheby’s Europe and Middle East Jewelery department.
The previous record is for the tiara mounting the Shizuka Diamond (101.27 carats), which was sold by Christie’s Hong Kong for $6.2 million in May 2008.
CORA SUN-DROP DIAMOND x “THE MOST STUNNING YELLOW DIAMOND IN THE WORLD”
London’s Natural History Museum is currently hosting the most stunning yellow diamond in the world – the Cora Sun-Drop.
At 110-carats, the Cora Sun-Drop is roughly the size of a woman’s thumb and is largest vivid yellow pear-shaped diamond known in the world.
It has been lent to the museum by leading US diamond manufacturer Cora International for display to visitors for a limited time.
Its unusual yellow colour stems from the very small percentage of nitrogen within the carbon structure of the stone.
Diamonds with a strong saturated colour represent only a tiny percentage of all natural diamonds, and when it more than 100 carats, it takes on a historic significance as so few exist.
ROMAIN JEROME x STEAMPUNK WATCH
Galvanised by the ever-growing Titanic DNA shock wave, Romain Jerome has decided to enrich its collection with an explosive timepiece named Steampunk.
The watch is “steampunk” because it has little pistons, gears, and odd numerals on an otherwise bog-standard timepiece.
The Romain Jerome Steampunk watch will be limited to just 2,012 pieces with a price of $12,500 Swiss Francs ($13,000).
PINK DIAMOND SELLS FOR $46 MILLION
A rare pink diamond that is regarded as one of the most desirable and beautiful in the world was sold for a record 46.16 million dollars on Tuesday.
Sotheby’s had valued the 24.78 carat Fancy Intense Pink diamond mounted on a ring at 27 million to 38 million dollars ahead of the sale in a luxury lakeside hotel.
But intense bidding wiped out the record of over 24 million dollars set during an auction in December 2008 in the sale of a grey-blue diamond Wittelsbach.
“At 40.50 million francs, the world record price. Selling it. Sold,” said the auctioner, to applause as he brought down the hammer.
The final price of over 46 million dollars includes the hammer price and the commission.
Sotheby’s said the buyer is Laurence Graff, a London-based diamond dealer, who had bought the jewellery for his personal collection.
“Laurence Graff is clearly a connoisseur of gemstones. Any connoisseur of gemstone would realise that this is a stone to own.
Had I the money, I would have bought it myself,” said David Bennett, chairman for Europe and the Middle East at Sotheby’s international jewellery department.
Bennett had earlier described the pink jewellery “one of the purest diamonds”.
The “flawless” emerald-cut gemstone, which forms the centrepiece of the 500 lots in Sotheby’s auctions of rare and precious jewellery, is rated among a type that accounts for just two per cent of diamonds.
Source: AFP
BLUE DIAMOND SETS AUCTION RECORD
A rare, two-stone ring set a new record price per carat for a blue diamond at auction when it sold for $15.7 million to an Asian collector.
The ring features a 9.87 carat colorless triangular-shaped diamond paired with a triangular 10.95 carat “Fancy Vivid” blue diamond, the largest such blue diamond of this cut ever offered at auction.
The jewel had been bought in Rome in 1972 for $1 million, which is the equivalent of about $5 million today, Christie’s auction house said.
It had been given as a gift from the collector to his wife to celebrate their first son’s birth, according to Christie’s.
Source: Reuters
$12 MILLION DOLLAR 10.95 TRIANGULAR SHAPED BLUE DIAMOND
This rare two-stone ring with a 10.95-carat triangular-shaped blue diamond is expected to sell for more than $12 million when it goes up for auction on Oct. 20 at Christie’s in New York next month. The rare vivid blue diamond, at 10.95 carats, is the largest ever to come to Christie’s auction house. The exceptional diamond is coupled with a 9.87-carat white diamond cut in the same shape. Offered for auction by an anonymous European businessman, the ring is designed by the Italian luxury jeweler BVLGARI. He bought the ring for $1 million from BVLGARI in 1972 in Rome to present as a gift for his wife on the birth of their first baby boy.
Rahul Kadakia, Christie’s jewelry expert, said…
Vivid blue is the strongest and purest saturation in any colored diamond. As a vivid, this is as good as it gets. They are perfectly matched in size and shape. They may be different in terms of weight, but the measurements are perfect. These two stones are made for each other.
He further added that the Gemological Institute of America has said the blue stone in Christie’s sale to be the largest triangular-shaped fancy vivid blue diamond they’ve ever graded. He said that the rare BVLGARI blue diamond has most probably come from the Premier Diamond Mine in South Africa.
Via: The Associated Press/Luxist
