{"id":1488,"date":"2017-10-13T15:15:18","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T15:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/berylfinejewelry.com\/?p=1488"},"modified":"2019-07-05T15:16:52","modified_gmt":"2019-07-05T15:16:52","slug":"diamond-sells-for-world-record-71m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/berylfinejewelry.com\/diamond-sells-for-world-record-71m\/","title":{"rendered":"Diamond Sells for World Record $71M"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The 59.60-carat \u201cPink Star\u201d diamond has sold for a record-setting $71 million at auction in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The buyer was jewelry giant Chow Tai Fook, Bloomberg reports. Sotheby\u2019s wrote in a tweet that the price is &#8220;a new record for any diamond or jewel at auction.&#8221;<br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The gem is the largest internally flawless, fancy vivid pink diamond ever graded by the Gemological Institute of America.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before the auction, only one diamond had &nbsp;stood in the way &nbsp; of the Pink Star claiming the title of most gemstone ever sold at auction: the 14.62-carat Oppenheimer Blue. The fancy vivid blue diamond sold at Christie\u2019s Geneva last year for nearly $58 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oddly enough, the Pink Star sold for an even higher price \u2014 $83 million \u2014 in 2013 at Sotheby&#8217;s Geneva. But that sale was canceled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 59.60-carat \u201cPink Star\u201d diamond has sold for a record-setting $71 million at auction in Hong Kong. The buyer was jewelry giant Chow Tai Fook, Bloomberg reports. Sotheby\u2019s wrote in a tweet that the price is &#8220;a new record for any diamond or jewel at auction.&#8221; The gem is the largest internally flawless, fancy vivid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/berylfinejewelry.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/berylfinejewelry.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/berylfinejewelry.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berylfinejewelry.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berylfinejewelry.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/berylfinejewelry.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berylfinejewelry.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/berylfinejewelry.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berylfinejewelry.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berylfinejewelry.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}