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Fancy-color diamond prices grew in 2016, supported by mounting demand for rare blues and pinks, according to the Fancy Color Research Foundation (FCRF)

Bonhams London kicks off its autumn auction season with its Fine Jewellery sale on September 20, with a pair of Kashmir sapphires and a rare blue diamond set to provide most of the sparkle.

The Oppenheimer Blue, a 14.62-carat vivid blue diamond was sold at Christie’s Magnificent Jewel auction in Geneva, Switzerland, for CHF56.8 million

The largest oval fancy vivid blue diamond ever to appear at auction will cross the block at Sotheby’s Hong Kong on April 5.

Hong Kong buyer purchases gemstone, which has the top grading of fancy vivid blue and was found in South Africa’s famed Cullinan mine in 2014.

As the diamond industry gears up for its for the holiday season, fancy colour diamond prices are holding steady. According to the Fancy Colour Diamond Index, prices of these diamonds remained stable during the third quarter of 2015.

[Discovery News] A blue diamond weighing 12.03 carats and described by experts as internally flawless could sell for a record $55 million (47 million euros) when it goes up for auction in November, according to Sotheby’s.

It was the triumph of the pink at the Sotheby’s Magnificent Jewels auction this week. The New York arm of the auction house’s jewelry department’s spring Magnificent Jewels sale totaled $65million. 

It’s called the Ballon Bleu de Cartier Vibrating Diamond Setting watch and it presents its fortunate female wearer a very unique way of enjoying diamonds on the dial of a timepiece. Do the diamonds really vibrate? Is there a therapeutic action to rapidly gyrating precious stones? 

Intensely coloured — or “fancy” — diamonds have long fetched high prices at auction, but in recent years those prices have soared.