GENEVA, Switzerland — The Fortune Pink, an
exceptionally rare giant gemstone, will be auctioned in
Geneva in November when
it is expected to go for up to $35 million, auctioneers said
Monday.
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At over 18 carats, the vividly colored gem is the largest
pear-shaped pink diamond of its quality ever to be offered for sale at auction,
the Christie’s auction house said.
The diamond, which goes under the hammer for the first time
on November 8, has been estimated at between $25 million and $35 million.
The sparkling pink tear-drop-formed stone, which has been
mounted on a ring flanked by a large white diamond on either side, weighs
exactly 18.18 carats.
Christie’s highlighted that this was considered a lucky
number in Asia, where it signifies “definite prosperity”, saying it expected
the diamond to “garner interest from collectors across the globe”.
“Weighing in at an auspicious 18.18 carats ... the weight in
fact brings luck to the new owner,” Angela Berden, Christie’s senior jewelry
specialist, told AFP.
“It’s a beautiful stone, it’s extremely rare to find a pink
diamond, vivid pink diamond, of this size,” she said.
“The color saturation of this stone is ... so difficult to
find in nature, and then when you find a crystal ... with that weight, with
that color, and a very good clarity, that’s just really rare.”
“I wouldn’t know where to find another one at this moment.”
While the Fortune Pink is the largest vivid pink pear-shaped
diamond to go to auction, larger cushion-shaped pink diamonds have previously
gone under the hammer.
In 2018, Christie’s sold the 18.96-carat Winston Pink
Legacy, which raked in over $50 million — the highest per-carat price ever paid
for a stone of its kind.
The giant Raj Pink diamond, weighing a full 37.3 carats,
meanwhile, failed to sell at a Sotheby’s auction a year earlier, where it had
been estimated at up to $30 million.
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