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After a year of new auction records, desire for the world's rarest natural colored diamonds has never been greater. We take a look back at the top sales of natural colored diamonds.

[New York] Christie’s auction house kicks off its spring auction season with the first Magnificent Jewels Sale due to be held at the New York Rockefeller Center on April 14, 2015. 

Christie's London sale of important jewels achieved $22,750,300 and was 75 percent sold by lot. All of the top 10 lots sold for well in excess of their presale estimates.

Jewelry is the most portable of investments, and we look at some spectacular colored gems that have come to market recently.

Christie's Geneva sale of important jewels garnered total sales of $150,216,738 and was 89 percent sold by lot. The auction house said that the event had the highest total sales value of any important jewel auction held to date.

2014 ‘Magnificent Jewels’, an auction by Christie’s Hong Kong on November 25, will be led by a 3.39-carat fancy vivid blue diamond ring by Moussaieff

Auctioneer Christie’s New York Important Jewels sale on June 10 raised $27,534,750. Top lot was an oval-cut fancy vivid pink VVS1 diamond weighing 5.50 carats bought for $9,753,000 ($1,740,545 per carat).

Christie's Important Jewels auction in London garnered $13.6 million (GBP 8.1 million) in sales and was 73 percent sold by lot. The top lot was a rare enamel and diamond snake wristwatch by Bulgari, circa 1965.

Raising the bar once again, Christie's sale of magnificent jewels in Geneva achieved the highest total ever for a jewelry auction at $154,193,622.