102.39-carat diamond Hammered!
Sold for US$15,694,870 at Sotheby’s! D Colour Flawless Oval Diamond named, Maiko Star! Moments ago at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, one of the earth’s rarest and most coveted wonders – a highly important 102.39-carat D Colour Flawless Oval Diamond - sold for HK$121,562,000 / US$15,694,870 in an unprecedented single-lot live auction. Offered without reserve-a first at auction for a lot of this importance and inherent value, the diamond attracted enormous interest and a flurry of bids, taking it quickly from HK$1 to well over HK$100m. Some of those bids were also placed online, the highest of which was HK$85m / US$10.97m - the highest value bid ever placed on a jewel online. The winning bid, though, came over the phone from a private collector in Japan, who, shortly after the sale, renamed the diamond the ‘Maiko Star’, after his second daughter. This now establishes a family tradition: last year, the same collector purchased another important diamond from Sotheby’s, naming it the