Yellow, pink and blue diamonds are catching the eye of investors around the world, according to dealers and industry insiders. Natural colored diamonds make up only 1 percent of global production, ...
Is the global turmoil driving sales of portable assets? Or is it just a love of rare jewels? By Jill Newman Alisa Moussaieff was in her London office on May 14, having lunch and bidding over the phone ...
Diamonds may be a girl’s best friend, but the luckiest gals on the block are the ones with rocks in shades of yellow, pink and blue. Colored diamonds are attracting more attention than ever, spurred ...
White diamonds are still the stones of choice for engagement rings. But colored diamonds are catching up. Last month the Gemological Institute of America, one of the largest independent ...
These tinted diamonds make up just 0.01 percent of all natural diamonds mined, appearing in shades of pink, blue, yellow, green, and even red. Since 2005, pink diamonds have increased in value by ...
Each year, millions of visitors crowd around a display case in the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., for a glimpse of one of the most legendary gemstones in the world: the ...
From brilliant blues to fiery reds, discover how nature crafts diamonds in every color, and why some shades are rarer than the rest Emma Saaty Selections from the Winston Fancy Color Diamond ...
A blue diamond discovered in a South African mine is expected to fetch up to $55 million — which would set a world record. GENEVA — Two rare colored diamonds go under the auction hammer this week in ...
The popularity and price of fancy colored diamonds have been on the rise globally, driven by Asian investors. From 2006 to 2014, fancy colored diamonds (pink, yellow, and blue diamonds) experienced an ...
In a gilded ballroom at the Four Seasons hotel in Geneva last month, the world’s wealthiest collectors and their envoys gathered to bid on the final and most anticipated lot: a nearly 19-carat ...
The Fortune Pink, an 18.18-carat fancy vivid pink diamond fetched $28.5 million at Christie’s Geneva auction The Geneva jewelry auctions held Tuesday and Wednesday cast a shadow over what was up until ...
When shopping for a diamond, whether for an engagement ring or a piece of fine jewelry, you’ll quickly encounter the term Four Cs—Cut, Color, Clarity, and Carat Weight. These four characteristics ...