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PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR

Magnificent and exceptionally rare fancy deep blue diamond
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3,280,000 — 4,200,000
CHF
LOT SOLD. 10,274,500 CHF
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555

PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR

Magnificent and exceptionally rare fancy deep blue diamond
Estimate
Dagger
Normal VAT rules apply and the standard rate of VAT will be charged on both hammer price and premium. In France the reduced rate is applied where the item is defined as a book for VAT purposes. In Australia GST is charged at the standard rate on both hammer price and premium.
3,280,000 — 4,200,000
CHF
LOT SOLD. 10,274,500 CHF
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Details & Cataloguing

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Magnificent and exceptionally rare fancy deep blue diamond
The fancy deep blue briolette diamond weighing 10.48 carats.
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Accompanied by a duplicate of GIA report no. 11736022, stating that the diamond is Fancy Deep Blue, Natural Colour, Flawless.

Catalogue Note

By definition, a precious gemstone must be beautiful, rare and durable.  These criteria are more than fulfilled by the exceptional diamond shown here: a magnificent Fancy
Deep Blue.

Diamonds are found in a variety of colours, each shade determined by their atomic structure.  The blue diamond presented here, which to use the correct terminology is a Fancy Deep Blue, is an exquisite example, unsullied by secondary colours.  Scientifically speaking the blue is due to the replacement of carbon atoms by boron in the crystal lattice of the stone, effecting its absorption of colour.  Looked at aesthetically, however, this stone is truly beauty personified.  Cut as a superb drop-shaped briolette, its many faceted surface, designed to reflect and refract light, has the added virtue of being flawless and, in terms of polish and symmetry, has been awarded the highest possible grade by the Gemological Institute of America.

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Magnificent Jewels

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