http://www.ta3.com/clanok/15599/vzacny-ruzovy-diamant-vydrazili-za-rekordnych-17-milionov-dolarov.html

Slušná cena za váhu 2.4gramu.
Hmmm pokiaľ by bol tip Argyle č.7 farebnej tabuľky - to by bola len cena. 😲

The Martian Pink, a 12.04-carat brilliant-cut fancy intense pink diamond ring by Harry Winston, sold for $17.4 million, or $1.4 million per carat, and was bought by an anonymous bidder.

Peknučký kamienok 😲

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Ne že by nebyl hezký... ale za ty peníze by byla úžasná sbírka antiky o mnoha tisících mincí ... 😃

Máš pravdu , verím neplatil zvyškom penazí určite a mince určite vlastní hoci nezbiera ,ale len tie najdrahšie - pre image v spoločnosti 😉

Neskutočná cena ; 😲
Geneva--The large, internally flawless diamond known as the “Archduke Joseph” became auction royalty on Tuesday, selling for $21.5 million at Christie’s Geneva and setting a new world record for a colorless diamond at auction.

An anonymous buyer purchased the 76.02-carat, D color Archduke diamond, which originated from the Golconda mines in India and once was owned by the Archduke Joseph of Austria, hence its name. The Archduke lived between 1872 and 1962 and was a member of the House of Habsburg, which ruled Austria, Bohemia and Hungary for more than 500 years.

Prior to the auction, Rahul Kadakia, head of jewelry for Christie’s Americas and Switzerland, said the diamond was the finest and largest perfect Golconda diamond ever to appear at auction, high praise for a diamond from the mines that produced such legendary stones as the Koh-i-Noor and the Hope diamonds.

The diamond’s former owner, Alfredo J. Molina, CEO of retailer Black, Starr & Frost, said in a news release that he was thrilled but not surprised at the Archduke’s record-setting performance.

“I was blessed to be the Archduke’s guardian and champion for the past 13 years, and indeed it has become part of my identity,” he said. “I know its new owners will delight in its beauty, charisma and mystery as I have for so many happy years.”

The $21 million sale of the Archduke also broke two other auction records, for a colorless Golconda diamond sold at auction--a record the Archduke actually still held from its 1993 sale at Christie’s--and the price per-carat record for a colorless diamond, selling for approximately $282,545 a carat. The 33.19-carat “Elizabeth Taylor Diamond,” sold by Christie’s in December 2011, held the previous record at $240,000 per carat.

All told, Christie’s Tuesday sale in Geneva garnered $85.0 million, capping off a record year of jewelry sales in Geneva for the New York-based auction house, with annual sales of more than $195.2 million. The auction sold 84 percent by lot and 86 percent by value.

Also, on Monday in Geneva, Christie’s held a watch sale where a number of Patek Philippe timepieces set new auction records.

Notable among them was a Ref. 2499 platinum perpetual calendar chronograph with moon phases that was manufactured in 1987. The watch once belonged to legendary musician Eric Clapton and was one of only 100 of its kind ever made.

A private Asian collector paid $3.6 million for the timepiece, setting a new world auction record for the Ref. 2499.

Leading the sale was a Ref. 2458 platinum chronograph Bulletin d’Observatoire watch with Guillaume balance that Patek Philippe manufactured in 1952. Its $4.0 million sale set a new world auction record for a wristwatch without complications.

The watches sale totaled $28.6 million, selling 96 percent by lot and 97 percent by value.

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Ked sa celý rok dobre šetrí 😃 pod stromček pekný darček. 🙄

Geneva--Just one day after the “Archduke Joseph” diamond raised the bar for colorless diamonds at Christie’s, Geneva witnessed another record-setting sale. A 10.48-carat fancy deep blue briolette-shaped diamond sold for $10.9 million at Sotheby’s on Wednesday, setting two world auction records.

Selling for slightly more than $1 million per carat, the flawless diamond set the world auction record for price per carat for a fancy deep blue diamond and the world auction record for a briolette.

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Že bych to dal pod stromeček nějaké slečně?

Mikuláš je skôr, prečo čakať do Vianoc. 😉

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OTHERS
Virtually every color, shade and hue the mind can imagine, nature has created within a marvelous natural color diamond. The range of color varieties is almost inexhaustible but NCDIA is committed to present, on a continuing basis, the full range of color categories expressed by these wonderful natural creations.

Red Diamonds
Red diamonds are extremely rare. Basically they are very strongly and deeply colored pink diamonds, with the same cause of color, crystal distortion. This combination is so rare that most jeweler and diamond dealers have never even seen a natural red diamond. They do not get large with the 5.11 carat Moussiaf Red shield being the largest known red.

Purple Diamonds
Purple diamonds are very rare. It is believed that they have a similar cause of color as pink diamonds; crystal distortion. They are most often found in Siberia and are generally small in size. There are no historical or famous purple diamonds. This may be due to their inhospitable location. Purple diamonds larger than 5 carats are extremely rare, and their color rarely reaches the intense and vivid color grades.

Violet Diamonds
Violet diamonds are very rare. The vast majority come from the Argyle mine, the same mine that most strongly colored pink diamonds are found. Their color is related to Hydrogen, but the exact mechanism is as yet unknown. They are often very small and diamonds greater than 1 carat are extremely rare. Their color usually has a gray component, diamonds of a pure violet color represent less than 10% of all violets. The number of intense and vivid violet diamonds mined each year could be counted on one hand.

Olive Diamonds
Olive diamonds are often confused with green diamonds, but they populate a different and discrete area of color space. Their color is a combination of yellow and green sometimes also a bit of brown or gray. They often come with three colors to describe them such as brownish greenish Yellow, and while this does accurately describe the color olive is a simpler, more concise term. They can range is size from small to large (some are 10+ carats). Occasionally they exhibit a color change when heated or left in the dark, these are known as chameleon diamonds.

Black Diamonds
Natural color black diamonds are rare. Their color is due to dark inclusions within the diamond, usually made up of graphite. It is rare that they are large, but the most famous black diamond, the Black Orloff, is 67.50 carats. Usually they are opaque and much of their beauty is the bright, adamantine luster that reflects light off the surface. Often used as melee in fashion jewelry in combination with colorless diamonds black diamonds are becoming very popular.

White Diamonds
Natural color white diamonds are not colorless, but are actually white. This can often cause confusion as the term is used loosely. A pure white diamond has a translucency or even opacity that makes the diamond white. This is often caused by sub-microscopic inclusions. They occasionally exhibit a weak play of color (similar to opals) called opalescence. These are highly prized among conniseurs.

Gray Diamonds
Gray diamonds are often steely in appearance and to an untrained eye may be hard to distinguish from colorless diamonds. When viewed side-by-side the difference is obvious, a gray diamond is darker than a colorless one. Pure gray diamonds are rare and are frequently described as a masculine color diamond.