Geneva

Christie’s Geneva auction to feature largest fancy vivid pink diamond worth $50m

Christie’s Geneva auction will present the largest and finest fancy vivid pink diamond ever offered at auction by the company with a price estimated between $30m to $50m (£22.8m to £38m). Weighing just under 19 carats (18.96 carats), the rectangular-cut gem named the The Pink Legacy will lead Christie’s Magnificent…

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Phillips appoints James Marks as international specialist for watches

Phillips in Association with Bacs and Russo has announced the appointment of James Marks as its new international specialist for watches. Based in London, Marks will assume responsibility for leading the watch department’s international sourcing efforts from the UK. He joins ahead of the upcoming international exhibition, Watchmakers, The Masters…

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Sotheby’s to hold London auction in June

Sotheby’s has announced that it will hold an auction at its London gallery on 6 June featuring an array of diamond jewellery. Cartier, Van Cleef & Arpels and Bulgari feature strongly in the London auction, alongside tiaras, retro jewels from the 1940s and a selection of sapphire and emerald jewels.…

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The Farnese Blue Diamond sold for $6.7m at auction

The Farnese Blue, a 6.16-carat pear-shaped dark grey-blue diamond which has passed through the hands of four European royal families, has been sold at auction for $6.7m (£4.9m) The diamond hit the public market for the first time in over 300 years and was sold after four minutes of bidding…

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Two ‘brilliant cut’ 50ct diamonds to be auctioned by Sotheby’s

Sotheby’s diamonds has announced that two 50ct brilliant cut diamonds are to be auctioned in Geneva this May. The first of the two stones is a round, brilliant cut diamond which, at 51.71ct, and ranks as the second largest D Flawless brilliant-cut diamond ever to have appeared at auction. The…

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Historic diamond ‘The Farnese Blue’ to auction for first time

Historic diamond, ‘The Farnese Blue’, will appear on the market for the first time in its history this spring, after having remained in the same family for over three centuries. Given to Elisabeth Farnese the Queen of Spain, on a diadem that formerly belonged to Marie-Antoinette, the diamond has subsequently…

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Christie’s sets world record with largest ever D flawless diamond sale

Christie’s auction house set a new world record with the $33,705,994 (£25,541,713) sale of the largest D flawless diamond to ever come to auction. The Magnificent Jewels auction saw the sale of The Art of de Grisogono, Creation 1, an emerald and diamond necklace set with a rectangular cut, D-colour,…

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Nadine Aysoy to expand in US following successful IJL showing

Fine jewellery brand Nadine Aysoy has gained a new distribution and marketing contract with US-based showroom, Mega Mega Projects New York, following her debut showing at this year’s IJL. The brand will now expand globally, with showcases at New York and Paris Fashion Weeks, as well as Los Angeles and…

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Raymond Weil creates first in-house movement

Raymond Weil has developed its own in-house movement for the first time, produced in partnership with manufacturer Sellita to create the freelancer Calibre RW1212. This exclusive movement was developed and designed by the R&D department of the Geneva watch company and produced by the movement manufacturer based in Le Crêt-du-Locle.…

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Baselworld shortens show following a drop in attendance

Baselworld has announced that its 2018 show will be six days long instead of the usual eight, following a drop in the number of exhibitors. There were 200 less exhibitors compared with the following year, making it a drop of 13.3%. Meanwhile, more than 10,600 buyers from 100 countries attended…

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