Are You bidding on this 110 carat Diamond ?
It is a long time ago that I didn't email you, sorry for
that but I was to busy with my clients in Antwerp.
Fancy a little ring bling? Got some spare cash?
That's right: 110 carats, big enough to cover half a finger in dazzling
yellow brilliance.
This impressive
diamond, 110.3
carats, will be sold
November 15, 2011
at a Sotheby's-jewelry
auction where it will go under
the hammer. Fortunately
not literally since the jewel
is estimated to go between
8 and 11 million
euro.
photo© epa
The diamond - which has had no previous owners so presumably you can name it
- will be auctioned November 15,2011 in Geneva by Sotheby's auction house.
Known as a "fancy vivid yellow pear-shape", the gem was
discovered in South Africa in 2010 and was displayed at London's Natural History
Museum earlier this year.
David Bennett, Sotheby's head of jewellery for Europe and the Middle East,
said, "It's the largest vivid yellow pear-shape known - at 110 carats it's
absolutely huge".
"Everytime we've shown it around the world, people have gone 'oh my
god'."
"It has huge presence and bags of character - I've sort of fallen in
love with it.
"It has never been owned so the buyer will be the first person to wear
it," he said.
Sotheby's estimates its value at $US11-15 million but Mr Bennett said it was
"a difficult sale to predict and we've had interest from all over the
world".
"But I think it's a spectacular stone and it's obviously sublimely rare
so we're optimistic."
In the Geneva catalog the diamond is named the Sun-drop
diamond, and is mounted in yellow gold as a ring for presentation and
accompanied by a wooden presentation box, but the new owner can give it a new
name if he wants to or change the mount. How would you call it and what
presentation would you ive it to ?
You can see the other 1506 lots in that auction online at www.sothebys.com
/magnificent-jewels
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