An Abundance of Bling!
Imagine a 72 Carat, flawless diamond !
The size of a tablespoon, this pear-shaped white diamond is D-color. It’s size and symmetry have earned it a “Type IIA” rating, garnered only by those white diamonds which are of the utmost brilliance.
At 72 carats in size, this is considered to be a “major stone” (I’ll say!), as is any stone above 50 carats. It is expected to be sold at a Sotheby’s auction in Asia next month for 12 million, the most expensive diamond ever sold in Asia. Though impressive in it’s own right, and ranking as the largest in the pear-shaped diamond category, it is not the largest diamond to be sold globally – this distinction goes to to a 100 carat “boulder” of nice ice, the “Star of the Season” diamond, sold for $16.5 million in 1995. Last year, the Chloe Diamond, an 84-carat stone which sold for $16.2 million was auctioned off.
March 17th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
I’d love to have the cash to buy this but what would I do with it? I think you could get a hernia carrying it around. LOL! Really, when they get that large they look like glass not real diamonds. I guess for the collector of gems and stones this must be a real coup to snag and own.
March 27th, 2008 at 8:48 pm
Wow, the diamond my hubby gave me is a color F and I just can’t believe how luminescence a diamond with the color D will be!
My girlfriend got a pear shaped engagement ring and eventhough it’s just one carat, it looks a lot bigger than the standard. Must be the shape.