The De Beers Distinctive Blue Assortment – a bunch of eight, extraordinarily uncommon, pure Fancy Blue diamonds makes up some of the notable collections of coloured diamonds on the planet. The gathering consists of eight phenomenal blue diamonds of varied shapes and weights totaling 32.09 carats, ranging in measurement from a 1.22-carat oval brilliant-cut to an 11.29-carat step-cut diamond. All eight diamonds can be bought throughout Sotheby’s Magnificent Jewels auctions this yr in New York, Geneva, and Hong Kong and all through the Spring of 2023. The De Beers Distinctive Blue Assortment involves the market with a mixed whole worth in extra of $70 million.

In November 2020, De Beers and Diacore collectively bought 5 uncommon blue tough diamonds from the legendary Cullinan mine that weighed a complete of 85.62 carats. Over a interval of almost two years, Diacore meticulously lower and polished the 5 tough diamonds starting from 9.61 to 25.75 carats. On condition that diamonds are the toughest materials on earth, nice talent is required to chop them. The problem is but better with blue diamonds due to their distinctive formation. There may be zero tolerance for miscalculation; any minute error would end in a lack of shade and the destruction of their magnificence. Diacore’s world-class cutters and polishers reworked them into the spectacular assortment of eight Fancy Blue diamonds introduced on this assortment.

Wenhao Yu, Chairman of Jewelry and Watches at Sotheby’s Asia, acknowledged: “The invention of a gem-quality blue diamond of any measurement is a uncommon prevalence, so to have the chance to supply not one, however eight dazzling blues in a variety of shapes and weights, is due to this fact actually distinctive. We’re completely delighted that De Beers and Diacore have entrusted us with a set of such rarity and wonder that the majority of us is not going to see replicated once more.”

4 of the eight blue diamonds had been graded by the Gemological Institute of America (GIA) as Fancy Vivid, the best shade grading for coloured diamonds; and the De Beers Distinctive 3.24 carat cushion brilliant-cut diamond additionally boasts distinctive readability, having been declared Internally Flawless by the GIA.

Saying the sale, Quig Bruning, Head of Sotheby’s Jewels, Americas, commented: “We’re honored to be entrusted with this excellent assortment of Fancy Blue diamonds. Additionally recovered from the historic Cullinan mine in South Africa, the De Beers Distinctive Blues are a real testomony of our world’s most extraordinary treasures and what’s but to be found.”

A full breakdown of The De Beers Distinctive Blue Assortment is obtainable beneath:

• A step-cut Fancy Vivid Blue, weighing 11.29 carats (est. $28/50 million)
• A cushion brilliant-cut Fancy Vivid Blue, weighing 5.53 (est. $11/15 million)
• A step-cut Fancy Intense Blue, weighing 4.13 carats (est. $2.5/3.5 million)
• A cushion brilliant-cut Internally Flawless Fancy Vivid Blue, weighing 3.24 carats (est. $5-8 million)
• A cushion brilliant-cut Fancy Vivid Blue, weighing 3.10 carats ($4.5/5 million)
• A cushion-cut Fancy Intense Blue, weighing 2.08 carats (est. $1.2/1.5 million)
• A spherical brilliant-cut Fancy Intense Blue, weighing 1.50 carats (est. $750,000/1 million)
• An oval brilliant-cut Fancy Intense Blue, weighing 1.22 carats (est. $600/800,000)

Blue diamonds are one of many rarest colours of diamonds, seen in solely roughly 0.02% of all diamonds. A wonderful miracle of nature, a blue diamond is created deep within the earth by the random presence of the hint factor boron throughout the diamond’s carbon construction throughout its formation. The presence of boron tells us the origin of pure blue diamonds is the deepest of all diamonds, roughly 4 hundred miles beneath the earth’s floor. Immediately, blue diamond discoveries of any measurement are very sporadic and all the time an astonishing prevalence. Stuffed with thriller and status, blue diamonds are actually one among nature’s most extraordinary creations.