Red Love Is All Around Rarest

The highest price paid for a pink diamond at auction was for a 24.78 carat Fancy Intense Pink. Known as The Graff Pink, it fetched $46.2m when sold by Sotheby’s in Geneva in 2010. Addit Pro Crack Fsx.

Over the years, the retired construction business owner from Long Island, New York, has been polishing an interest in rare coloured diamonds, particularly pinks, which can, on average, hold up to 20 times the value of a white diamond. “We look at white diamonds as being very ordinary now and there’s so many of them around,” Picone said. In the Manhattan showroom of JFINE, a boutique diamond firm in New York specialising in rare fancy coloured diamonds, Picone looks on fondly as his 30-something daughters consult with designers. One daughter selects a shark’s mouth pendant design in yellow gold, then picks out diamonds of different colours to insert as the teeth.

As well as spending around $1m on rings, bracelets and necklaces for his wife and daughters over a period of years, Picone has paid out a similar amount for loose stones. In buying and selling pinks, reds (the most valuable type of pink diamond), blues and greens, he reckons he’s seen an average return of 40% to 50%, usually over one to three years. The hunt for pink Only one in 10,000 diamonds mined has a trace of colour.

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Of these, a very small percentage are pinks. Unlike other coloured diamonds, such as blues and yellows, which take their hue from chemical impurities that absorb light, scientists are not yet certain about what makes pink diamonds pink. The current theory is that their colour comes from the effect of severe underground pressure altering the molecular structure of the stones. And, not all coloured diamonds are rare.

For instance brown diamonds, now marketed as “chocolate diamonds” in shades of champagne, latte and cognac, are the most common type of coloured diamond and have been widely employed for industrial use. Historically, pink diamonds have come from India, South Africa, Brazil and Indonesia. But today 90% of the world’s supply comes from Rio Tinto’s Argyle Pink Diamonds mine in Perth, western Australia — a mine that started production in 1983 and is set to close in 2020.

While the biggest volume goes to Japan, where the tiniest accent of pink is symbolic of perfect love, the largest market in terms of value is the US, said Josephine Johnson, manager of Argyle Pink Diamonds. Buyers in India are also taking an interest in them, while in China, deep-hued pinks, classed as reds, are popular because the colour is associated with good fortune, she said.

Over the past decade, Argyle pink diamonds have delivered 15% to 17% appreciation per year, she said. While you can acquire a 0.02 carat stone for around $250, the costliest change hands for millions of dollars. What to look for White diamonds are judged mainly on what are known as the four Cs: colour, clarity, cut and carat weight. The first three characteristics are each classified in a grading system with a flawless colourless ‘D’ stone with excellent cut being the finest.