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6.03-carat fancy vivid blue diamond failed to sell. Its estimate was $9-$12 million<\/p>\n
Sotheby’s <\/p>\n
A 6.03-carat fancy vivid blue, internally flawless diamond failed to find a buyer at Sotheby\u2019s Geneva High Jewelry Sale. The gem, which carried a pre-sale estimate of $9 million to $12 million, was the top lot of the May 12 auction at the Mandarin Oriental in Geneva.<\/p>\n
Quig Bruning, global head of jewelry, said Friday, the diamond continues to generate interest from collectors after the auction.<\/p>\n
\u201cAlthough the diamond didn\u2019t find a buyer during the auction, we are now in conversations with several interested parties and are confident that it will find a new home soon,\u201d Bruning said.<\/p>\n
Despite the setback, the sale totaled more than $30 million, with 93% of lots sold. Sotheby\u2019s reported its highest participation in a Geneva jewelry sale in more than five years, averaging more than five bidders per lot sold. Many lots exceeded their high estimates. Collectors from more than 30 countries participated, led by buyers from the U.S., Asia, Europe and the U.K.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe momentum in the jewelry market which we have been witnessing since the last quarter of 2025, and more recently in our High Jewelry Sale in Hong Kong, is still very much in evidence in Geneva,\u201d Jessica Wyndham, head of high jewelry at Sotheby\u2019s Geneva, said in a statement. \u201cCollectors have again favored colored gemstones above all else, but it\u2019s been exciting to see a white diamond resurgence, with several white diamond jewels selling in excess of their high estimates. And, of course, there is still a lot of love for signed jewelry, including the bold 1970s and 1980s styles such as striking pieces from Bulgari, many of which soared above their high estimates.\u201d<\/p>\n
Top lots included fancy colored diamonds, important colored gemstones and signed jewels.<\/p>\n
A pair of unmounted diamonds, sold for $3.2 million<\/p>\n
Sotheby’s <\/p>\n
The leading lot of the sale was a pair of unmounted diamonds described by Sotheby\u2019s as \u201cperfectly matched.\u201d Each weighed 18.38 carats and was graded Type IIa, D color, with one graded flawless and the other internally flawless. The pair sold for more than $3.2 million. Sourced by De Beers from Botswana\u2019s Jwaneng mine, the diamonds are part of a collaboration with Sotheby\u2019s to offer major flawless diamonds with notable provenance at its High Jewelry auctions.<\/p>\n
The Peacock of Ceylon, important unmounted sapphire, sold for $2 million<\/p>\n
Sotheby’s <\/p>\n
The second-highest lot was the \u201cPeacock of Ceylon,\u201d a 102.4-carat unmounted cushion-shaped unheated sapphire, which sold for nearly $2 million.<\/p>\n
A 4.12-carat fancy pink diamond, sold for $1.4 million<\/p>\n
Sotheby’s <\/p>\n
Another highlight was a 4.12-carat pear modified brilliant-cut fancy pink diamond ring that sold for $1.4 million. The internally flawless Type IIa diamond, set between tapered baguette diamond shoulders, was also graded by the Gemological Institute of America as having excellent polish.<\/p>\n
A necklace with 14 emeralds mixed with diamonds sold for $2.4 million<\/p>\n
Sotheby’s <\/p>\n
A large necklace featuring 13 drop-shaped Colombian emeralds and a central emerald accented by baguette-, old mine-, old European- and single-cut diamonds sold for $2.4 million, above estimates.<\/p>\n
Signed jewels also performed strongly.<\/p>\n
An emerald and diamond necklace by Bucherer, circa 1986, sold for $1 million<\/p>\n
Sotheby’s <\/p>\n
An emerald and diamond necklace by Bucherer, circa 1986, featuring five step-cut emeralds and pav\u00e9-set brilliant-cut diamonds, sold for $1 million.<\/p>\n
A Van Cleef & Arpels platinum and gold transformable necklace with a detachable brooch-pendant sold for $605,700. The piece featured pear-shaped, marquise-shaped and brilliant-cut diamonds arranged in tiered clusters, while the necklace itself could also be detached and worn as a bracelet.<\/p>\n
The seventh-highest lot was a circa 1950 diamond bracelet centered with a 7.04-carat unheated Kashmir sapphire, which sold for $622,000.<\/p>\n
Two additional high-estimate lots also failed to sell.<\/p>\n
One was a ring set with a 14.6-carat pear-shaped fancy brownish orangy pink diamond accented by brilliant-cut diamonds. It carried an estimate of $831,122 to $1.2 million.<\/p>\n
An important white diamond ring featuring two marquise-shaped diamonds weighing 7.20 and 6.68 carats, both graded D color and internally flawless with excellent polish and symmetry, also went unsold. Its estimate was $639,000 to $1 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"6.03-carat fancy vivid blue diamond failed to sell. Its estimate was $9-$12 million Sotheby’s A 6.03-carat fancy vivid…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7],"tags":[36132,36131,65,36130,20422,28804,36129],"class_list":["post-66684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-geneva","tag-bucherer","tag-de-beers","tag-geneva","tag-geneva-high-jewelry-sale","tag-sothebys","tag-van-cleef-arpels","tag-vivid-blue-diamond"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116587309659542569","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66684","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=66684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}