Hmmmmm. :scratch: Kobe special?
Dec. 2 (Bloomberg) -- A ring with a pink diamond the size of a chickpea sold last night for a record HK$83.5 million ($10.8 million) at a Hong Kong auction that was spurred by Chinese buying.
The 5-carat, so-called fancy-vivid gem set by London-based jeweler Graff Diamonds and given the second-highest rating of potentially flawless, broke the per-carat record for a diamond set in May with Hong Kong property tycoon Joseph Lau’s purchase of a 7.03-carat blue diamond in Geneva for 10.5 million Swiss francs ($10.5 million). A carat is a fifth of a gram.
The jewel went to a phone bidder who wrested it from the Chinese millionaire stock-investor tycoon Liu Yiqian and his wife Wang Wei who were bidding in the room. Auction host Christie’s International declined to confirm that the lot was bought by another mainland Chinese.