Tuesday 14 May 2013

Largest Briolette Diamond Offered at Auction for Sale at Christie’s Hong Kong

Largest Briolette Diamond Offered at Auction for Sale at Christie’s Hong Kong

(IDEX Online News) – Get ready for another headline-making auction. Christie’s Hong Kong is getting ready to auction a necklace featuring the largest briolette diamond that has ever appeared in auction at its upcoming Magnificent Jewels sale.

The 18-karat rose and white gold diamond and colored diamond necklace has a marquise-cut purplish diamond suspending a 75.36 carat D/IF briolette diamond. The necklace has a pre-sale estimate of $8.5 million-$12.5 million.

Another highlight is an emerald and diamond necklace mounted by Boucheron in the 1950s. The necklace, which has an estimate of $3 million-$5 million, has eight emeralds set with a line of graduate old European and cushion-shaped diamonds each weighing 10 carats or above alternating with baguette-cut diamonds.

A third item expected to attract a lot of attention is a ruby and diamond ring by James W. Currens for Faidee. With a pre-sale estimate of $2.3 million-$3.5 million, the ring features a natural oval-shaped ruby of 8.88 carats that possesses a richly saturated and homogenous color and a high degree of transparency. According to the Gubelin Gemmological Laboratory, the “pigeon blood” colored ruby is of Burma (Myanmar) origin, with no indications of heating.

Comprising more than 290 jewels, the May 28 sale is estimated to realize more than $74 million.