A 10.09 Fancy Vivid
purplish-pink diamond is set to turn heads at Christie’s Magnificent Jewels
sale in New York on April 12. This exceptional diamond,
with its highly coveted cushion cut, is estimated at US$12-15 million.

In recent years, prices for top-quality colored
diamonds have increased rapidly, driven by both collector demand and
increasingly limited supply. Indeed, only one in about 10 million diamonds will
possess a color pure enough to be graded as “Fancy Vivid”.

In the last 15 months, four
pink diamonds have fetched more than US$1 million per carat at auction, with
Christie’s The Vivid Pink, a 5 carat cushion-cut diamond that sold for more than
US$2.1 million per carat in December 2009, holding the record price per carat for
any diamond sold at auction.

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