The Largest Blue Diamond Ever Up For Auction Could Be Yours for $45 Million

The Largest Blue Diamond Ever Up For Auction Could Be Yours for $45 Million

The Largest Blue Diamond Ever Up For Auction Could Be Yours for $45 Million, Diamonds aren't all created equal. According to Gizmodo, Christie's Bargain House afresh arise that a 14.62 carat dejected diamond, nicknamed the Oppenheimer Blue, will be awash at bargain this May. The emerald-cut gem, account an estimated amount of amid $38 and $45 million, is the better Vivid Dejected design anytime to arise at auction.

Named afterwards its antecedent owner, the backward Sir Philip Oppenheimer, the design is declared by Christie's Chairman François Curiel in the video aloft as accepting "perfect hue, categorical proportions, and [a] aces ellipsoidal shape."

Those data are allotment of what makes the gem so rare. Rahul Kadakia, Christie's arch of jewelry, told CNBC that beneath than 2 percent of the precious stones begin in the apple are blue, and alone 10 percent of them are beyond than a carat.

"Blue precious stones ambit from a actual aside babyish blue, a crumb blue, to a dark, dark-indigo dejected [that's] about too dark," Kadakia said. "Vivid is the purest, a lot of open, about a blessed dejected color."

Kadakia alleged the appraisal "a bargain" in allegory to the per-carat affairs prices of added dejected diamonds. In fact, CNBC estimated that the Oppenheimer Dejected could hit the $58 actor mark, or higher. The "Magnificent Jewels" bargain is appointed to yield abode in Geneva on May 18, which gives you a ages and a bisected to save up.

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