The pear-shaped fancy dark grey-blue ... diamond was known only to family members and the jewelers who tended to it. Next month, a family descended from Queen Elisabeth will be selling the stone ...

A rare 10.10-carat oval-shaped Internally Flawless Fancy Vivid blue diamond will be the lead item at Sotheby’s Hong Kong Magnificent Jewels & Jadeite sale on April 5 at the Hong Kong ...

It seems there's no limit to what someone will pay to own the largest flawless diamond ... stone’s breathtaking beauty. When Bunny Mellon sold her exceptional 9.75-carat fancy vivid blue pear ...

Update 4/25/2025: The Golconda Blue will not be sold at Christie's in May. Instead, per a spokesperson for the auction house, the owners of the gem are now pursuing a sale within their family.

In 1923, he commissioned Chaumet to set the 23-carat pear-shaped Golconda blue diamond ... in the ancient diamond fields of Eastern India. Some of the most famous Golconda stones include the ...

Christie’s Magnificent Jewels auction in New York on December 10 is led by a 5.72-carat fancy intense blue ... diamond with D-color and VS1 clarity. The main stone is flanked by several baguette ...

The stunning stone ... said the diamond was unique because of its rich blue colour, known as “fancy vivid blue” in the diamond industry, and its unmodified pear brilliant shape.

The stone now belongs to ... The rectangular-cut diamond has been set in a ring and flanked by two smaller trapezoid-shaped diamonds. Only 10% of all blue diamonds discovered are larger than ...

The diamond was found in South Africa last year and was the largest cushion shaped blue stone in the fancy vivid category ever to appear at auction. It is not the first time Mr Lau has bought rare ...