‘Perfect Pink’ diamond sells for $23 million
Christie’s sold a 14.2 carat diamond dubbed “The Perfect Pink” for an eye-popping $23 million on Monday, setting what the auction house described as a record for Asia.
An unidentified buyer stumped up the huge price tag for the rectangular pink diamond at a jewellery auction in Hong Kong which garnered a total of $78.9 million, Christie’s said.
“Leading the sale was the extraordinary Perfect Pink, a rare 14.23 carat Fancy Intense Pink diamond,” the auction house said, calling it “the most expensive jewel ever sold at auction in Asia”.
“The Perfect Pink is a phenomenon in the world of gems,” it said.
The diamond’s pre-sale high estimate was about $19 million.
In 2009, a five-carat chickpea-sized vivid pink gem set a per-carat world record price for a diamond when it fetched $10.8 million at an auction in Hong Kong.
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