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An important pink diamond ring set with a cushion-cut natural fancy light purplish pink diamond weighing app. 1.71 ct. encircled and flanked by numerous oval brilliant-cut white diamonds weighing a total of app. 1.69 ct. and brilliant-cut natural fancy pink diamonds weighing a total of app. 0.83 ct., mounted in 18k pink and white gold. Colour: Top Wesselton-Wesselton (G-H). Clarity: VVS. Size 52. New York, circa 2016.

Accompanied by GIA diamond report no. 2115491553. Carlsbad, 2009. The pink diamond is presumably from the Australian Argyle mine. Colour distribution: Even. Colour origin: Natural. Clarity: SI1. Cut quality of white diamonds: Excellent-cut.

“The End of an Era”. The Rio Tinto Argyle diamond company has dug the last diamonds up from the ground and closed the mine on the 3rd of November 2020. Natural pink diamonds are very rare. Only about 0.01% of all diamonds are pink. Of those, about 90% were mined in The Argyle mine in Kimberley, Western Australia, which was one of the largest diamond mines in the world. The mine opened in 1985 and has since then been the only reliable source for pink diamonds ranging in colour from rose-petal pink to deep blue-violet. Since the pink diamonds are so rare, they are highly sought after on the international diamond market, and the prices have shown a continual growth in value year after year.

Condition

Condition report on request.

Additional Remarks

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Auction

Jewellery & handbags, 3 December 2020

Category
Estimate

750,000–1,000,000 DKK

Price realised

Not sold