It's the highest amount paid per carat for any diamond at auction.
The cushion-cut gem is now the second most valuable jewel or gemstone ever sold at auction, following the 59.6-carat Pink Star diamond that realized $71.2 million in 2017. It also set a new per-carat price record for any diamond at auction. The previous record was $4 million per carat, which the 12-carat Blue Moon of Josephine set when it sold for $48.4 million in 2015.The Williamson Pink Star was named after two of the most famous pink diamonds in jewelry history.
One of the purest, pinkest diamonds ever to go under the gavel, the Williamson Pink Star was discovered at Williamson’s mine in Tanzania just like the Queen’s. The legendary mine is known for producing stones with a coveted “bubblegum” pink hue that ranks them among the rarest and most valuable of all colored diamonds.What makes this rock rarer still is the fact that it has a fancy vivid color grade and the clarity is internally flawless.
“History was made in Hong Kong last night,” Wenhao Yu, chairman of jewelry and watches at Sotheby’s Asia, said in a statement. “The flawless clarity of the diamond was matched by the flawless auctioneering and our team’s execution—the Williamson Pink Star now takes its place in the pantheon of world record-breaking gemstones of the rarest kind—as the second highest price achieved for any jewel or gemstone sold at auction.
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