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Many famous diamonds have a long and intriguing history that is often centuries old. But the Pink Star Diamond is fairly new. This year, it celebrates its 20th birthday. De Beers mined the Pink Star in 1999 in one of their mines in South Africa. When found, the rough Pink diamonds weighed 132.5 carat. But the size wasn’t the only thing that made it such an extraordinary discovery. It was the remarkable color that captured the heart. The so-called Fancy Vivid Pink is a very rare color, let alone in a diamond of this size. Steinmetz Pink diamond s bought the rough stone from De Beers. They decided a diamond this rare needed a special cut. Steinmetz took no less than 8 polishers and 20 months to cut the pink diamond. Even for rare diamonds, this is a very long time. Considering it takes one polisher about 8 hours to polish a one-carat diamond. But the result is also impressive. The final product weighs 59.60 carats. It has an internally flawless clarity grade and was laved as fancy v...

A 59.60 carat  Pink diamond  oval diamond called "Pink Star" was sold in April 2017 at Sotheby's in Hong Kong for a record $ 71.2 million ($ 1194600 / carat). The diamond had a preliminary value of $ 60 million. The unique stone was acquired by the Hong Kong jewelry company Chow Tai Fook (CTF), which renamed the diamond “CTF Pink Star” after the brand name. The gemstone has excellent quality characteristics. The color of this diamond is Fancy Vivid Pink by the Gemological Institute of America, and IF is clarity. This diamond is classified as a rare type IIa. It was cut from a 132.5 carat diamond mined by De Beers in 1999 in South Africa. It took about 20 months to cut the stone. For the first time this  Pink diamond , under its old name "Steinmetz Pink", was shown to the public in Monaco in 2003. This diamond has previously been exhibited at Sotheby's in November 2013 in Geneva. Then he left for a record $ 83 million. But at the end of February 2014 it becam...

It's amazing how one and the same stone can awaken in a person a variety of intentions and aspirations - an unfair struggle has been fought over diamonds for centuries, today these precious stones are the most valuable exhibits at exhibitions, and the cost of diamonds at auctions rises to unimaginable limits. Pink Diamonds evoke the brightest emotions, delight, but at the same time give rise to dark thoughts, inspired by the desire to single-handedly possess the treasure.In the world of jewelry, everything is not so categorical, diamonds in products and accessories are so widely represented that each buyer can choose stones in any price category, literally from several thousand rubles. This gem is a diamond cut in a special, ultra-precise way: the facets are arranged in such a way that the natural beauty of the stone is emphasized - its color, transparency, light refraction. Jewelers have developed enough types of cut to find a personal approach to each diamond, a way that will he...

What kind of diamonds cannot match colorless diamonds, even if they are of high transparency and cut quality? Of course, with their fancy “fellow rivals” - colored diamonds: pink, blue, blue, etc. diamonds.The Pink diamond has long been considered the rarest of the colored diamonds. After the opening of the Argyle mine in Australia, the situation changed, and now a pink diamond is a rare stone, but not like, for example, a red diamond. It is important to note that the color of both stones is due to small deformations in the crystal lattice. In nature, there is only one pink stone for every 100 thousand diamonds. And of course, pink diamonds are much less common, which, after cutting, produce diamonds weighing several carats. Pink diamonds are found in just a few mines. The main production of  Pink diamond  is carried out mainly in India, Africa, Australia and Brazil, currently the most famous source of pink diamonds is northwest Australia. But since the share of all fancy dia...

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 nitroge...

Pink diamonds are one of the most coveted things on earth and we do not refer only to the present moment, because for centuries people have seen in diamonds one of the greatest miracles of nature. It's not just about their beauty and brilliance, qualities that place them in the top of their preferences, but about many other amazing things that characterize them. Thus, we reveal 10 curiosities about diamonds that will make you fall in love with them irretrievably. Many of us don't even realize how old the  Pink diamonds   we buy is and how the years it has gathered give it the shine it has, mounted in a piece of jewelry. All diamonds were formed over several billion years, some of the oldest dating back 3 billion years.Curiosity makes you wonder how diamonds are formed ? Well, find out that they are made almost entirely of pure carbon. Somewhere around 160 kilometers underground begins the magic of diamond transformation, when the bonds of carbon atoms are altered under the h...

Australian pink diamonds In some alternate universes, nature has buried most of its gems. Historically, fair skinned people were buried in the inhabited countries. Half a century ago, on this other earth. Northern royal people  Australian pink diamonds  traveled from the "mysterious" west to the "enlightened" east, to sell one of the largest and most magnificent gems excavated in Europe. A group of businessmen in the commercial capital of Accra decided to turn this son Dukina stone, while his son was the gracious face of a royal family on the trip. australian pink diamonds Well, even weird. For stones that are expected to be sold somewhere between 30 and 40 million to 30 million, they may get a more specific name than "Prince". Perhaps they had thrown a special stone to cut prices. In 1960, they purchased diamonds worth only 70,000,000, which is probably the best investment story of registered diamonds. Despite this disrespectful name ...