Fancy Blue Diamond Sets World Record at Sotheby's Auction

Two fantasy colored diamonds sold for record prices by auction this weekand they were both bought by the same male.


At Sothebys New York Magnificent Jewels auction aboard April 18, Brett Stettner of Stettner Investment Diamonds bought a fantasy blue diamond ring from Tiffany & Co. for $2.four million,or $687,712 per carat. The three.54 ct. VS1 marquise fetched the auctions altitude command plus went for several periods more than its high estimate of $500,tiffany key necklace,000.


According apt Sotheby's, that is a world record per-carat cost for a phantom blue diamond, topping the 20.17 ct.illusion blue diamond ring that sold for $9.nine million ($490,952 per carat) by Sothebys New York amid October 1994.


The before day Stettner set a U.S. record when he paid $15.seven million for the Clark Pink,brand jean stores, a ring-set,nine ct. cushion-cut,fancy vivid purplish pink diamond by a Christies New York auction.


Stettner says that he feels "humbled"to have won such infrequent stones.


"These are distinctive wonderful colored diamonds," he says. "I am seeing for diamonds that I tin create value with plus pass that quantity aboard to my clientele. There are not many stones prefer these. They are priceless."


Overall,swarovski stud earrings, the Sothebys auction took among $43.1 million, the highest-ever utter for a spring bargain of Pearl by Sothebys New York, topping final Aprils then-record tally of $39.four million.