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11-carat pink diamond sells for record $57.7M at Hong Kong auction
A pink diamond has offered for a record-setting worth at public sale.
An 11.5-carat pink diamond simply set a brand new world file, promoting for $57.7 million, which is greater than $5 million per carat.
It shatters the earlier file of practically $2.7 million per carat for a Fancy Vivid Pink Diamond that offered in 2018.
The flawless Wiliamson Pink Star diamond was present in Tanzania, in one of many oldest working diamond mines on this planet.
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The chairman of jewellery and watches at Sotheby’s Asia advised Forbes the diamond has the perfect qualities potential for a pink diamond.
The diamond was auctioned off Friday at Sotheby’s Hong Kong.
The bidding was live-streamed and was rapidly lowered to a few individuals — somebody on the Hong Kong Conference Middle and two telephone bidders.
The individual on the conference middle ended up being the very best bidder.