WHAT NO ONE TELLS YOU ABOUT PINK DIAMONDS

A rare Pink diamonds  due to its weight, color and purity could break the record price per carat for a stone of this color at its auction in Geneva, with appraisers expecting the sale price to reach up to 50 million dollars (EUR 44.1 million). 

"It weighs exactly 18.96 carats. "When we know that most pink diamonds weigh less than a carat, then we are talking about a very large weight," explained Jean-Marc Linnell, an international jewelry expert at Christie's."Pink Legacy", in intense deep pink color, is classified in the category "fancy vivid", the highest in the scale used for colored Pink diamonds. "Fancy vivid" diamonds weighing more than 10 carats are almost unknown in auction rooms, as only four pink "fancy vivid" diamonds have been put to the hammer at auction, according to Christie's.

"Pink Legacy" also belongs to the so-called type II diamonds, which means that it contains little or no trace of nitrogen, which represents less than 2% of all diamonds, according to experts. Diamonds of this type are among the purest in terms of chemical composition and often have "an excellent transparency and luster", says Christis.

"Pink Legacy", a completely classic size, belonged for decades to the Oppenheimer family, which for decades ran the mining company De Beers, explains Christie's, who does not want to reveal the name of its current owner.The Pink diamonds from the mines of South Africa was discovered almost a century ago, it was cut a long time ago, probably in the 1920s and has not been cut since. Its value is estimated at between 30 and 50 million dollars (between 26.5 and 44.1 million euros).

"We need to know that this particular diamond is indeed excellent and probably the most beautiful ever presented at auction. "Therefore, there are reasons for any hope of success in the sale of this precious stone today."

Throughout human history, diamonds have had a prominent place in his choices. The first diamonds were probably discovered in India, as there are references in books of Economics and Law of the 4th century BC. century. The word diamond comes from the ancient Greek word "adamas" which was used to describe the hardest materials of that time.

Diamond is carbon molecules that form in the earth under extremely high temperature and pressure conditions. Its hardness, durability and unique shine that it reflects made it the most beloved gemstone in the manufacture of Pink diamonds.The universal method for evaluating the quality of any diamond, anywhere in the world is the 4Cs. There are 4 parameters that describe a diamond quite accurately. In short, the 4Cs are: Color, Clarity, Cut and Carat Weight.

The black diamond is as hard as the transparent diamond, although in terms of its gravity, it is much lower.Its black color is due to the presence of a large number of black enclosures, which enclosed absorb all the light that emerges from the diamond. 

Black Pink diamonds do not shine in the traditional sense. The black diamond actually absorbs light instead of reflecting it, which means that their beauty comes from their polished surface. More specifically, during polishing, which is one of the most important procedures to be followed when cutting a diamond, the crown (ie the top of the diamond) acquires a brilliant cut, while the base (cullet) , acquires an octagonal cut (eight cut), as it does not need to have a complete cut since it forms the base of the diamond.

This rare and unique black diamond was named after the famous Swiss jeweler and diamond cutter De Grisogono. The world-famous black diamond expert was responsible for cutting the Moghul-style diamond.In his honor, the diamond was named " The Spirit of De Grisogono ". After a year of hard work, De Grisogono transformed the 587-carat black diamond into a 312.24-carat conical diamond tied in a white gold ring with 702 smaller white diamonds weighing a total of 36.69 carats.

The rough diamond when discovered in the Central African Republic in 1950 weighed 587 carats, ranking it 18th among the largest diamonds discovered in the world.The Black Orlov diamond , known as the " Eye of Brahma " was discovered in India in the early 19 th  century and today weighs  67.5 carats , while uncut reached 195 carats.

This black diamond adorned the statue of the Hindu god Brahma, until it was removed by a monk, which led to the “Curse of the Pink diamonds Orloff's  Diamond Curse has been linked to the suicides of at least three of its owners in the 1930s and 1940s.When the Pink diamonds was mined in South Africa in 1972, it was a 55.85 carat black diamond .

It takes its name from the capital of the Netherlands, Amsterdam, for two reasons:

First of all, because in Amsterdam the Pink diamonds was cut andSecondly, to honor in this way the 700th anniversary of the city which is widely known as "The city of diamonds".Following the cutting process, the now famous Black Amsterdam Diamond is a 33.74 carat black pearl cut diamond and decorates a necklace that sold at auction in 2001 for $ 352,000. This necklace is also decorated with 15 smaller diamonds in brilliant cut.