Top Diamonds at auction 2014

The Ocean Dream – a 5.50-carat Fancy Vivid Blue-Green diamond sold for $8,633,798, or $1,569,781 per carat. In May, Sotheby’s Geneva sold the Graff Yellow, a 100.09-carat Fancy Vivid yellow diamond set in a ring by Graff, for a record $16.3 million – the highest ever for a yellow diamond at auction.

In May at Christie’s Geneva, the Winston Blue, a 13.22-carat Flawless Fancy Vivid Blue diamond, sold for $23.7 million, setting a world auction record for price per carat for a blue diamond at $1,799,953 per carat. That record was broken by Mrs. Paul Mellon’s 9.75-carat Fancy Vivid Blue diamond, renamed the Zoe Diamond by its new owner sold for $32,645,000, or $3,348,205 per carat at Sotheby’s in November. The most expensive jewel to sell in 2014, the Zoe diamond also set a new world auction record for any blue diamond and a new world auction record for price-per-carat for any diamond.

At Sotheby’s Hong Kong Magnificent Jewels sale in October, a 8.41-carat Fancy Vivid Pink diamond sold for nearly $17.8 million, setting a new world auction record for a Fancy Vivid pink. A 75.97-carat pear-shaped D Flawless diamond sold at Christie’s Geneva for nearly $14.5 million.

A 70.33-carat Cushion Brilliant-Cut Diamond – $14,201,234. A 89.23-carat Pear-Shaped Diamond – $11,085,000

A Belle Époque Diamond Devant-de-Corsage Brooch, by Cartier – $17,581,612 Pair of Fancy Vivid blue & Fancy Vivid pink diamond earrings, by Bvlgari – $15,820,731