The Pink Legacy is now, The Winston Pink Legacy
18.96
carats a Fancy Vivid Pink
Diamond
Sold for CHF 50,375,000
Fancy
Vivid Pink diamonds over 10 carats
Unheard
over 250 years of auction history at Christie’s!
The
Pink Legacy, a Fancy Vivid Pink cut-cornered rectangular-cut diamond of 18.96
carats. Sold for CHF 50,375,000 on 13 November in the Magnificent Jewels sale
at Christie’s in Geneva! Rahul Kadakia, International Head of Jewellery at
Christie’s, explains why this spectacular 18.96-carat Fancy Vivid Pink diamond
sold for CHF50,375,000 in Geneva.
‘The
saturation, the intensity of this stone is as good as it gets in a coloured
diamond,’ states Rahul Kadakia, International Head of Jewellery, of the Pink
Legacy, an extraordinary 18.96-carat Fancy Vivid Pink diamond that sold for
CHF50,375,000 in the Magnificent Jewels
auction on 13 November at Christie’s in Geneva, and was promptly renamed
The Winston Pink Legacy by its new owners, Harry Winston.
‘To
find a diamond of this size with this colour is pretty much unreal,’ he
continues. ‘You may see this colour in a pink diamond of less than one carat.
But this is almost 19 carats and it’s as pink as can be. It’s unbelievable.’
Scientists
classify diamonds into two main ‘types’ — Type I and Type II.
In
the latter, the diamond has a particularly rare, almost homogenous colour.
‘Pink diamonds fall under the rare Type IIa category of diamonds,’ explains the
specialist. ‘These are stones that have little if any trace of nitrogen, and
make up less than two per cent of all gem diamonds. Type IIa stones are some of
the most chemically pure diamonds often with exceptional transparency and
brilliance.’
While
most pink diamonds exhibit a colour modifier like purple, orange, brown or
grey, the Pink Legacy shows no trace of a secondary colour. Its even colour
distribution, combined with a balanced saturation, tone and straight pink hue,
qualify the 18.96 carat diamond for the coveted ‘Fancy Vivid’ colour grading
from the Gemological Institute of America (GIA).
Only
one in 100,000 diamonds possess a colour deep enough to qualify as ‘Fancy
Vivid’, and the Winston Legacy set a new record price per carat for a pink
diamond.
In
the Fancy Vivid Pink range, diamonds of more than five or six carats are rarely
encountered. In fact, fewer than 10 per cent of pink diamonds weigh more than
one-fifth of a carat.
In the saleroom, Fancy Vivid Pink diamonds over 10 carats are virtually unheard over 250 years of auction history at Christie’s, only four such stones have ever appeared for sale.
In the saleroom, Fancy Vivid Pink diamonds over 10 carats are virtually unheard over 250 years of auction history at Christie’s, only four such stones have ever appeared for sale.
Driven
by collector demand and an increasingly limited supply, prices for top-quality
large pink diamonds have increased exponentially over the years.
This booming market reached an historic level in Hong Kong in November 2017 when Christie’s sold ‘The Pink Promise’, an oval-shaped Fancy Vivid Pink diamond of just under 15 carats, for $32,480,500 — a whopping $2,175,519 per carat. The figure remains the world auction record price per carat for any pink diamond.
This booming market reached an historic level in Hong Kong in November 2017 when Christie’s sold ‘The Pink Promise’, an oval-shaped Fancy Vivid Pink diamond of just under 15 carats, for $32,480,500 — a whopping $2,175,519 per carat. The figure remains the world auction record price per carat for any pink diamond.
This
incomparable pink diamond has descended from the Oppenheimer Family and its
sale was a major moment in auction history.
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