Small diamond for twenty-six million dollars

The auctioneer's hammer was held in an auction organized by Sotheby's International in Geneva yesterday, Wednesday, on an unknown person who called by phone and paid 26 million and 600 thousand dollars, to buy what Sotheby's offered for sale, and the competitors crowded to buy it, a pink oval diamond, we see in a video , the size of a bird's egg, its length is 1.70 and its width is 1.27 centimeters, and it is of 14.85 carats, weighing less than 3 grams, and a simple calculation, we find that its buyer paid 8 million and 900 thousand dollars per gram.

The piece, which they named The Spirit of the Rose after a famous ballet troupe, is part of one, the largest ever discovered in Russia, and the largest pink diamond ever offered at auction, after a famous one that grabbed the spotlight when it was sold 3 years ago in Hong Kong . However, the “Spirit of Roses” carat that the unknown person bought yesterday is the most expensive among all diamonds sold at auctions so far.

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And the excavators working in the Russian Alrosa group, found in July 2017 the original diamond in the Republic of Sakha, also known as Yakutia in the northeastern Siberian, and it took meticulous work to deal with and treat it more than a year, including cutting it and giving it its oval shape, while preserving its brilliant color, according to What Al Arabiya.net was aware of about the diamond’s biography, whose carat price is less than the record set by the Pink Legacy diamond when Christie’s sold it for fifty million dollars in an auction two years ago in Geneva, that is, two million and 600 thousand dollars per carat.

It is known that the CTF Pink Star diamond of 59.60 carats, less than 12 grams, is now setting the record for the largest and most expensive pink ever sold at auction. Sotheby's offered it at an auction organized in 2017 in Hong Kong, and the competition ended. On it, in the amount of 71 million and 200 thousand dollars, paid by the Chow Tai Fook Jewelery Group in Hong Kong to acquire it, not because the pink diamond is the most rare and sought-after in the global market, but rather for the size of that diamond that I discovered it De Beers Group was established in 1999 in South Africa, and worked for two years in refining it, according to a certificate issued by the American Gemological Institute, describing it as the largest in its charm and fascination.