Art
Life Begins At 40 - Well It Does If Someone Buys Me This Diamond
What a way to celebrate a 40th birthday.
Sotheby’s,
the auction house, is marking four decades in Hong Kong
by offering The Premier Blue, a 7.59-carat round brilliant-cut
internally flawless
fancy vivid blue diamond. Even the long description is
mouth-watering.
It is described as the “the largest round fancy vivid blue
diamond
ever graded by GIA (Gemological Institute of America)”. It is
also part of the Magnificent Jewels and Jadeite Autumn
Sale
2013 scheduled to take place on 7 October at the Hong Kong
Convention and
Exhibition Centre.
According to the sales blurb, the round brilliant cut is
rarely used in coloured diamonds due to the high wastage involved
in the
cutting process, although it is widely applied to white diamonds
to maximise brilliance.
“No significant round fancy vivid blue diamond has ever
appeared at auction worldwide, thus making the The Premier Blue a
rare and
exceptional gem,” writes an excited-sounding auction house.
“Sotheby’s has been entrusted with many important blue
diamonds and holds the current per-carat price record for fancy
vivid blue
diamond at auction (with the sale of a 6.01-carat Fancy Vivid
Blue Diamond
which achieved $1,686,505 per carat in Hong Kong in October
2011),” Quek Chin
Yeow, deputy chairman, Asia, and chairman international
jewellery, Asia, said.
It should be quite an occasion. Not a bad way to hit 40.