{"id":65097,"date":"2026-05-14T06:46:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T06:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/65097\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T06:46:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T06:46:12","slug":"ocean-dream-blue-green-diamond-sells-for-more-than-17-million-at-christies-auction-in-geneva-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/65097\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Ocean Dream\u2019 blue-green diamond sells for more than $17 million at Christie\u2019s auction in Geneva"},"content":{"rendered":"

GENEVA \u2014 A 5.5-carat triangular-cut diamond billed as the largest fancy vivid blue-green diamond<\/a> known to exist sold for more than 13.5 million Swiss francs ($17.3 million) on Wednesday, Christie\u2019s said, calling it a record price for a stone of its kind sold at auction.<\/p>\n

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The \u201cOcean Dream,\u201d the standout offer at the auction house\u2019s Geneva sale of jewelry, was found in Central Africa<\/a> in the 1990s. The price easily topped the presale estimate to fetch 7 million to 10 million francs (around $9 million to $13 million).<\/p>\n

Rahul Kadakia, president of Christie\u2019s Asia Pacific, said that an unspecified private client was the buyer, and the stone took about 20 minutes to sell<\/a> \u2014 an indication that interest was high.<\/p>\n

The price was more than double that of the roughly $8.5 million that the gem, which was featured among rare colored diamonds<\/a> at the Smithsonian Splendour of Diamonds Exhibition in 2003, sold for at Christie\u2019s in 2014.<\/p>\n

\u201cA stellar result worthy of the world\u2019s rarest blue-green diamond,\u201d Tobias Kormind, managing director of online jeweler 77 Diamonds, said in a statement.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, a 6-carat fancy vivid blue diamond<\/a> at a Geneva auction at Sotheby\u2019s didn\u2019t sell.<\/p>\n

The auction house said that the rare stone unearthed from South Africa\u2019s famed Cullinan mine had come in with a presale estimate of 7.2 million to 9.6 million francs ($9.2 million to $12.3 million).<\/p>\n

\u201cAlthough the diamond didn\u2019t find a buyer<\/a> during the auction, we are now in conversations with several interested parties and are confident that it will find a new home soon,\u201d Sotheby\u2019s said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Both houses say collectors are increasingly drawn to rare, colored diamonds, which make up only a fraction of all the diamonds mined around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GENEVA \u2014 A 5.5-carat triangular-cut diamond billed as the largest fancy vivid blue-green diamond known to exist sold…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[65],"class_list":{"0":"post-65097","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-geneva","8":"tag-geneva"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116571588872909431","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65097","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=65097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}