Pink Star Diamond Fetches $83m World Record Auction
As per a report:
A plum-sized diamond known as the "Pink Star" was auctioned in Geneva Wednesday for US$83 million, a world record for a gemstone. David Bennett, chairman of Sotheby's jewellery division in Europe and the Middle East, brought down the hammer in a Geneva hotel after an intense, five-minute bidding race between four contenders.
The winner, a bearded man in his sixties, declined to identify himself to AFP but confirmed that he had been representing another individual. Sotheby's later said the buyer was Isaac Wolf, a New York diamond cutter, who was going to rename the stone "The Pink Dream". The diamond was the star of a high-end jewellery auction in the upscale Beau Rivage Hotel on the shore of Lake Geneva. The diamond had been estimated at US$60 million.
A plum-sized diamond known as the "Pink Star" was auctioned in Geneva Wednesday for US$83 million, a world record for a gemstone. David Bennett, chairman of Sotheby's jewellery division in Europe and the Middle East, brought down the hammer in a Geneva hotel after an intense, five-minute bidding race between four contenders.
The winner, a bearded man in his sixties, declined to identify himself to AFP but confirmed that he had been representing another individual. Sotheby's later said the buyer was Isaac Wolf, a New York diamond cutter, who was going to rename the stone "The Pink Dream". The diamond was the star of a high-end jewellery auction in the upscale Beau Rivage Hotel on the shore of Lake Geneva. The diamond had been estimated at US$60 million.
Labels: $83m, Auction, Diamond, Pink Star, World Record
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