As it turned our fall is a
harvest season not merely for fruit and vegetables but for auctions
either. While Sotheby's Auction was proud to sell such exquisite lot
as fancy deep blue diamond, Christie's Auction in Geneva didn't lag
behind and dazzled with flawless colorless diamond gem.
The diamond is 76.02 carat
stone, really huge in size, but this is its history that adds up to
its dimensions and perfectness: the Archduke Joseph diamonds is the
gem with a name. The unmounted gem comes from Golconda region in
India famous for its eminent world-known diamonds. This gem was
previously owned by the Archduke Joseph August of Austria, Palatine
of Hungary, a member of the House of Habsburg, after whom it got its
name.
According to
Gemological Institute of America, this is the largest D-color, IF
diamond it ever graded. The starting price was $15 million and it
raised to $21.5 million quite fast, setting a record price ever given
for colorless diamond. There is always a buzz after that sort of
sales concerning who the lucky owner is, but the latter preferred to
remain anonymous and placed bids via the telephone. Alfredo J.
Molina, the former diamond owner, was really surprised to get such a
high price for the gem: “I am thrilled but not surprised that the
Archduke Joseph Diamond should have fetched such a high price. I was
blessed to be the Archduke’s guardian and champion for the past 13
years, and indeed it has become part of my very identity.”
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