{"id":1040660,"date":"2018-09-25T13:00:13","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T13:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=1040660"},"modified":"2018-09-25T13:00:13","modified_gmt":"2018-09-25T13:00:13","slug":"christies-to-auction-largest-finest-pink-diamond-in-its-history-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=1040660","title":{"rendered":"Christie\u2019s to auction largest, finest pink diamond in its history"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Cecilia Jamasmie<\/a><\/span> <\/p>\n

\"Christie's<\/a><\/div>\n

The largest and finest fancy vivid pink diamond ever offered at auction by Christie’s it’s about to go under its hammer in Geneva, with experts expecting it to fetch a record price of between $30 million and $50 million.<\/p>\n

The rectangular cut diamond, named Pink Legacy, was once part of the Oppenheimer collection, Christie’s said<\/a>, referring to the family who built De Beers into the world’s No. 1 diamond producer.<\/p>\n

It’s rated \u201cvivid\u201d, which is the highest rating for a diamond’s colour, as it displays the optimum hue of the stone. At 18.96 carats, is also the largest fancy vivid pink diamond Christie’s has ever offered and it would lead its Magnificent Jewels auction in November.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo find a diamond of this size with this colour is pretty much unreal,\u201d Rahul Kadakia, International Head of Jewellery at Christie’s said in a statement<\/a>. \u201cYou may see this colour in a pink diamond of less than one carat. But this is almost 19 carats and it’s as pink as can be. It’s unbelievable.’<\/p>\n

Scientists classify diamonds into two main \u201ctypes\u201d \u2014 Type I and Type II. In the latter, the diamond has a particularly rare, almost homogenous colour. \u201cPink diamonds fall under the rare Type IIa category of diamonds,\u201d Kadakia said. \u201cThese are stones that have little if any trace of nitrogen, and make up less than two per cent of all gem diamonds. Type IIa stones are some of the most chemically pure diamonds often with exceptional transparency and brilliance.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Pink Legacy will be shown in Hong Kong, London and New York before being auctioned in Geneva on Nov. 13. (Image from video, courtesy of Christie’s.<\/a><\/em>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Pink Diamonds have been fetching record prices at auctions. The 59.6-carat Pink Star diamond, in fact, sold for $71.2 million in April last year<\/a>, becoming most expensive gem ever sold that way.<\/p>\n

In November, another pink rock \u2014set in a ring embellished with smaller diamonds \u2014 sold for about $32 million<\/a> at Christie’s in Hong Kong after a three-minute contest.<\/p>\n

The Pink Legacy will be shown in Hong Kong, London and New York before being auctioned in Geneva on Nov. 13.<\/p>\n

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By Cecilia Jamasmie The largest and finest fancy vivid pink diamond ever offered at auction by Christie’s it’s about to go under its hammer in Geneva, with experts expecting it to fetch a record price of between $30 million and $50 million. The rectangular cut diamond, named Pink Legacy, was once part of the Oppenheimer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[360],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040660"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1040660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1040660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1040660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1040660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}