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Very important fancy intense pink diamond 
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12,545,000 — 18,060,000
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378

PROPERTY OF A LADY

Very important fancy intense pink diamond 
Estimate
Premium Lots
In order to bid on "Premium Lots" you must complete the required Premium Lot preregistration application and deliver to Sotheby's such necessary financial references, guarantees, deposits and/ or such other security as Sotheby's may in its absolute discretion require, as security for your bid. Sotheby's decision whether to accept any pre-registration application shall be final. We recommend you contact Sotheby's at least 3 working days prior to the relevant sale in order to process the pre-registration, and please bear in mind that we are unable to obtain financial references over weekends or public holidays. If all lots in the catalogue are "Premium Lots", a Special Notice will be included to this effect and the paddle symbol will not be used.
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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.
12,545,000 — 18,060,000
CHF
LOT SOLD. 15,256,250 CHF
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Details & Cataloguing

Magnificent Jewels and Noble Jewels, Session 3

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Geneva

Very important fancy intense pink diamond 
The pear-shaped fancy intense pink diamond of fine colour weighing 16.00 carats, mounted as an earring with a pear-shaped and a brilliant-cut diamond, post fitting.
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Accompanied by GIA report no. 1172688201, stating that the diamond is Fancy Intense Pink, Natural Colour, VVS2 Clarity, together with a Type IIa classification letter. 

Catalogue Note

“Certainly, the occurrence of any gem-quality diamond is rare, but the discovery of a pink diamond is exceedingly unusual. Of all diamonds annually submitted to GIA, no more than 3% are classified as coloured diamonds; less than 5% of those coloured diamonds are predominantly pink”, according to the Gemmological Institute of America.

 

'The Artemis Pink' has been determined as type IIa.

“According to the GIA Laboratory, the 16.00 carat Pear Modified Brilliant diamond has been determined to be a type IIa diamond. Type IIa diamonds are the most chemically pure type of diamond and often have exceptional optical transparency. Type IIa diamonds were first identified as originating from India (particularly from the Golconda region) but have since been recovered in all major diamond-producing regions of the world”.

Excerpt from the Type IIa classification letter

On 4 April 2017, Sotheby’s Hong Kong sold the ‘Pink Star’, a magnificent Fancy Vivid Pink Internally Flawless diamond weighing an outstanding weight of 59.60 carats, for a record price for any diamond, any gemstone and any jewel at US$ 71.2 million.

The current record price ever paid at auction for a fancy intense pink diamond is ‘The Graff Pink’, a superb 24.76 carat Fancy Intense Pink diamond, which sold at Sotheby’s Geneva in November 2010 for US$46.16 million.

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Magnificent Jewels and Noble Jewels, Session 3

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Geneva