This week a diamond known as the Pink Star has sold for £52 million at auction in Sotheby’s Geneva – a world record price for a diamond.
Weighing in at 56.9ct this plum sizes pink oval diamond came set in a ring and was quite the spectacle in the auction house. Taking two years to cut and polish. , the diamond in its rough state was a whopping 132.5 carat.
New York diamond cutter Isaac Wolf was the man with the winning bid who chose to rename the beautiful stone “The Pink Dream“.
The diamond was mined by Debeers in 1999, but now, 14 years later is has become someone’s dream.
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