In recent years, in the world auction market, gems and diamonds of large size, good color and high clarity have been particularly sought after. Fancy colored diamonds have repeatedly become the "dark horse" in auctions in recent years, and the hammer prices have broken auction records one after another.
The Sotheby's "Magnificent Jewelry and Noble Jewelry" auction in Geneva last week set a total of three world auction records. The "Apollo and Artemis" diamonds were sold for 57,425,478 US dollars (about 400 million yuan), breaking the world auction record for earrings, and were named "The Memory of Autumn Leaves" and "The Dream of Autumn Leaves".
The earring named "The Memory of Autumn Leaves" is inlaid with a 14.54 carat Fancy Vivid blue diamond, which was sold for US$42,087,302 (approximately 320 million yuan) and was named "The Dream of Autumn Leaves" "The Fancy Intense Pink Diamond weighed 16.00 carats and sold for US$15,338,176 (about 100 million yuan).
It is reported that in recent years, colored diamonds with high carat numbers have been highly sought after in auctions and are the gems with the fastest appreciation. In the same auction, a 7.04 carat Piaget Fancy Intense Purple Pink Diamond Ring was also sold at a high price, with a transaction price of US$13,245,750 (about 91 million yuan) per carat reaching US$1,881,499 (about 12.96 million yuan). This ring broke the world auction record for Fancy Intense Purple and Pink diamonds, and also set the world auction record for the price per carat of Fancy Intense Purple and Pink diamonds.
10.10-carat internally flawless oval-shaped bright blue diamond "De Beers Millennium Treasure 4" was sold for US$31.8 million at the 2016 Sotheby's Hong Kong spring auction, setting a record for the unit price of Asian jewelry at the time.
The 15.38 carat vivid pink diamond that appeared in Sotheby's Geneva in 2016-the "Wu Shuang" pink diamond. Among the millions of diamonds mined every year, only 0.001% of the diamonds meet the standards for colored diamonds, and only a few of them can reach the top Fancy Intense and Fancy Vivid grades. Experts point out that color plays a key role in the value of diamonds. One of the reasons why colored diamonds are precious comes from their rarity. Red diamonds are almost negligible, and green is also extremely rare. Blue and purple are both rare colors. In comparison, There are relatively more colors such as yellow and brown, but on the whole, colored diamonds are still rare gems with a certain collection value.
platinum ring inlaid with 26.65 carats Fancy Vivid yellow diamonds and diamonds, from Tiffany's 2017 BlueBook "jungle fantasy" high jewelry collection.
Why is the auction house the only place where people can find top colored diamonds? Russell Shore of the Gemological Institute of America (GIA) said in an interview with the media that this seemingly simple conclusion is due to the long history of auctions, good control of global auction trends, awareness of rare gems, and Long-term connections with internationally renowned auction houses. He said: "First of all, the three major markets of Geneva, New York and Hong Kong can always attract global customers. Rare colored diamonds can always be sold at unprecedented prices in these auction houses. Secondly, Sotheby's and Christie's There is the deepest insight. In other words, genuine and precious diamonds circulate here. Finally, the number of private buyers increases.”
An outstanding colored diamond is very rare, and its quality is determined by the concentration and color of the color. Attraction decision. Different from the 4C standard for identifying colorless diamonds, the appraisal agency uses a unique system for the appraisal of colored diamonds. Russell Shaw said: "The identification starts with the color. For example, the diamond is first identified as yellow. Next, if there is a bit of green in the diamond, the diamond is called a green yellow diamond. . Then identify the density of the color, from slight to intense color, vivid color, etc. GIA will also identify whether the color is natural."
