One of the world's largest auction houses specializing in art and antiques - Bonhams - recently sold an exclusive diamond type IIa, priced at $ 2,629,000 in jewelry trades, reports the portal Diamond World.
It is reported that this precious stone, the pre-auction estimate of which was $ 2.63 million, went under the hammer for $ 8.2 million. The unedged diamond weighs 17.82 carats and has a diamond cut from a pear-shaped diamond.
Hundreds of people representing almost two dozen countries took part in the auction. Among the leading lots in the jewelry auction is a ring with a fantasy bright blue pear-shaped cut diamond weighing 1.12 carats, sold for $ 365,000, that is, three times higher than the pre-auction estimate, a ring with a fancy yellow diamond weighing 7.09 carats, gone under the hammer for $ 185 000, a 2.01 carat brown-pink diamond ring, sold for $ 155,000 - twice the original price, and a ring with a light yellow diamond weighing 7.79 carats, sold for $ 118,750.