‘The Ocean Dream’ shown during a press preview at Christie\u2019s auction house in Geneva, on May 7, 2026 – Copyright AFP\/File Fabrice COFFRINI<\/p>\n
\u201cOcean Dream,\u201d the largest blue-green diamond ever recorded, sold for $17 million Wednesday, Christie\u2019s auction house said.<\/p>\n
The 5.5 carat diamond was extracted from a mine in Central Africa in the 1990s and has been named by the Smithsonian Institution as one of the world\u2019s eight rarest diamonds, Christie\u2019s said in a statement announcing the sale.<\/p>\n
\u201cA stone of this colour and size is extremely scarce, and adding to its rarity the diamond is type Ia, amongst the purest of natural gems,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s very rare to find green diamonds, even over one carat,\u201d said Max Fawcett, global head of Christie\u2019s Jewellery.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo find something in five carat of this quality and this colour is truly remarkable.\u201d<\/p>\n
The fancy vivid blue-green diamond is triangular in shape and \u201cthe size of the nail on your smallest finger\u201d according to Fawcett.<\/p>\n
It was sold for 13.6 million Swiss francs ($17.3 million), a new record for a blue-green diamond at auction, it said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe sold the stone in 2014 for eight and a half million dollars. It was bought by a private Asian collector who enjoyed it. She wore it,\u201d Fawcett said.<\/p>\n
Wednesday\u2019s auction saw three clients from different parts of the world bidding on the gem. The winner had chosen to remain anonymous, Fawcett said.<\/p>\n
The gem was first extracted from a rough stone weighing 11.70 carats, Christie\u2019s said.<\/p>\n
It was cut and exhibited at the Smithsonian Institute\u2019s Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC in 2003 as part of a Splendor of Diamonds exhibit.<\/p>\n
The show featured red, orange, yellow, pink, blue, blue-green and white diamonds, ranging from 5.11 carats of the Moussaieff Red\u00a0to 203.04 carats of the De Beers Millennium Star.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘The Ocean Dream’ shown during a press preview at Christie\u2019s auction house in Geneva, on May 7, 2026…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[5897,35432,65,1736,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-64954","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-geneva","8":"tag-auction","9":"tag-diamond","10":"tag-geneva","11":"tag-luxury","12":"tag-switzerland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116569658096597283","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}