{"id":4349,"date":"2018-11-14T08:11:11","date_gmt":"2018-11-14T08:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/pink-legacy-diamond-sold-for-world-record-price\/"},"modified":"2018-11-14T08:11:11","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T08:11:11","slug":"pink-legacy-diamond-sold-for-world-record-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/pink-legacy-diamond-sold-for-world-record-price\/","title":{"rendered":"Pink Legacy diamond sold for world record price"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div property=\"articleBody\">\n<figure class=\"media-landscape has-caption full-width lead\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-image-replace\" alt=\"Pink Legacy diamond\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/124E6\/production\/_104328947_050590249.jpg\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\"\/><span class=\"off-screen\">Image copyright<\/span><br \/>\n                 <span class=\"story-image-copyright\">AFP\/Getty<\/span><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><figcaption class=\"media-caption\"><span class=\"off-screen\">Image caption<\/span><br \/>\n                <span class=\"media-caption__text\"><br \/>\n                    The diamond&#8217;s new owners have rechristened it the Winston Pink Legacy<br \/>\n                <\/span><br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">A rare pink diamond has fetched 50.3m Swiss francs ($50m; \u00a338.5m) at auction, a record price per carat.<\/p>\n<p>Pink Legacy, weighing in at just under 19 carats, was bought by US brand Harry Winston at auction in Geneva.<\/p>\n<p>The price of around $2.6m per carat marked a world record for a pink diamond, according to the Europe head of auction house Christie&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>It had been valued at between $30-$50m before sale, and was bought after only five minutes of bidding. <\/p>\n<p>The diamond&#8217;s new owners have rechristened it the Winston Pink Legacy.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"story-body__unordered-list\">\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-34580502\" class=\"story-body__link\">Would you buy a synthetic diamond?<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/av\/business-34598366\/can-you-spot-a-laboratory-made-diamond\" class=\"story-body__link\">Can you spot a laboratory-made diamond?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Once owned by the Oppenheimer family, who formerly ran the De Beers mining company, the diamond was referred to as &#8220;one of the world&#8217;s greatest diamonds&#8221; by Christie&#8217;s international head of jewellery, Rahul Kadakia.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christies.com\/features\/The-Pink-Legacy-diamond-9398-3.aspx\" class=\"story-body__link-external\">&#8220;You may see this colour in a pink diamond of less than one carat,&#8221; Mr Kadakia said<\/a>. &#8220;But this is almost 19 carats and it&#8217;s as pink as can be. It&#8217;s unbelievable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape has-caption full-width\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>                 <span class=\"off-screen\">Image copyright<\/span><br \/>\n                 <span class=\"story-image-copyright\">AFP\/Getty<\/span><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><figcaption class=\"media-caption\"><span class=\"off-screen\">Image caption<\/span><br \/>\n                <span class=\"media-caption__text\"><br \/>\n                    The diamond sold after five minutes of bidding<br \/>\n                <\/span><br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It was graded as &#8220;fancy vivid&#8221; &#8211; the highest level of colour intensity.<\/p>\n<p>The rectangular-cut stone was found in a South African mine around 100 years ago and has likely not been altered since it was first cut in 1920, Christie&#8217;s said.<\/p>\n<p>Finding a fancy vivid pink diamond larger than 10 carats is virtually unheard of, the auction house said. <\/p>\n<p>The auction price of the Pink Legacy diamond, sold at Christie&#8217;s annual Magnificent Jewels auction, beat the previous record price-per-carat. <\/p>\n<p>In November 2017, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/av\/magazine-30584362\/pink-diamonds-unlocking-the-rare-jewels-secrets\" class=\"story-body__link\">an 8.41-carat pink diamond sold for $17,768,041 (\u00a311,438,714) in Hong Kong<\/a> &#8211; more than $2.1m (\u00a31.8m) a carat.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-europe-46203283\">Source<\/a> by <a href=\"\">[author_name]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright AFP\/Getty Image caption The diamond&#8217;s new owners have rechristened it the Winston Pink Legacy A rare pink diamond has fetched 50.3m Swiss francs ($50m; \u00a338.5m) at auction, a record price per carat. Pink Legacy, weighing in at just under 19 carats, was bought by US brand Harry Winston at auction in Geneva. 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