{"id":6210,"date":"2022-09-03T00:52:17","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T18:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/?p=6210"},"modified":"2022-09-03T00:52:17","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T18:52:17","slug":"rare-pink-diamond-to-make-dubai-stop-could-sell-for-over-21-million-at-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/life\/2022\/09\/03\/news\/6210\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare pink diamond to make Dubai stop &#8211; could sell for over $21 million at auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6211\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6211\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6211\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/pink-300x171.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6211\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Model poses with a pink diamond due to put up for auction at Sotheby&#8217;s auction house. (Reuters)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LONDON, Broadcasting News Corporation : A dazzling pink diamond, described as one of the world\u2019s purest, could fetch more than $21 million when it goes under the hammer in Hong Kong in October, auction house Sotheby\u2019s said on Wednesday. At 11.15 carats, the cushion-shaped gem is called \u201cWilliamson Pink Star,\u201d in tribute to two other pink diamonds. One is the \u201cCTF Pink Star,\u201d a 59.60-carat oval mixed-cut diamond which sold for a record $71.2 million at auction in 2017. The other is the \u201cWilliamson\u201d stone \u2013 a 23.60 carat diamond given to Britain\u2019s Queen Elizabeth as a wedding gift by Canadian geologist John Thorburn Williamson. Worn by the monarch in a Cartier brooch, it was discovered in his mine in Tanzania. The \u201cWilliamson Pink Star\u201d also originates from that mine. \u201c(Pink diamonds) are exceptionally rare in nature&#8230;,\u201d Kristian Spofforth, Sotheby\u2019s head of jewelry, told Reuters at a press preview. \u201cYou then add in the extra factors like it being over 10 carats, internally flawless and Type IIA, and you get right down to the pinnacle,\u201d he added referring to a subgroup of the most chemically pure diamonds. Top quality colored stones are prized by the super wealthy and Spofforth said he expected many bids for the gem when it is offered for sale in a standalone auction on Oct 5.<br \/>\n\u201cWe saw over the lockdown crisis and the COVID crisis that there is always demand for the rare and the beautiful in the world, and this is something exceptionally rare that I think will have plenty of bidders on the day,\u201d he said. Ahead of the auction, the \u201cWilliamson Pink Star\u201d will go on tour to Dubai, Singapore and Taipei before arriving in Hong Kong. NEWS COLLECTED FROM ARAB NEWS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON, Broadcasting News Corporation : A dazzling pink diamond, described as one of the world\u2019s purest, could fetch more than $21 million when it goes under the hammer in Hong Kong in October, auction house Sotheby\u2019s said on Wednesday. At 11.15 carats, the cushion-shaped gem is called \u201cWilliamson Pink Star,\u201d in tribute to two other &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6212,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6210\/revisions\/6212"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}