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A 15.81-carat pink diamond broke auction records when it fetched $29.28 mn at Christie’s Hong Kong, becoming the largest purple-pink flawless diamond ever sold at an auction.
The internally flawless Type IIA “Sakura Diamond,” which realised a price per carat of $1.85 mn, was the star of Christie’s Magnificent Jewels sale in Hong Kong on May 23.
Overall sales reached $76.8 million with rare pinks leading the auction. Apart from Sakura, another notable pink diamond, a 4.19-carat fancy vivid pink diamond named The Sweet Heart, was snapped up for $6.6 mn.
Christie’s looks forward to extending this strong buying momentum to its upcoming live auction in New York on June 8.
Aruna Gaitonde, Editor in Chief of the Asian Bureau, Rough&Polished
