{"id":22894,"date":"2023-09-20T14:52:44","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T09:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gjepc.org\/solitaire\/?p=22894"},"modified":"2023-09-20T14:52:44","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T09:22:44","slug":"bleu-royal-to-headline-christies-geneva-jewels-auction-in-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gjepc.org\/solitaire\/bleu-royal-to-headline-christies-geneva-jewels-auction-in-november\/","title":{"rendered":"Bleu Royal To Headline Christie&#8217;s Geneva Jewels Auction in November"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blue Royal to take centre stage at the upcoming Magnificent Jewels auction at Christie\u2019s Geneva on 7<sup>th<\/sup> November.<\/p>\n<p>The stunning 17.61-carat Bleu Royal is the largest Internally Flawless Fancy Vivid Blue gem ever to appear for sale in auction history.<\/p>\n<p>Cut and polished into a perfectly symmetrical pear combined with a rich vivid blue colour and flawless purity, this diamond is amongst the rarest to have been unearthed (estimate US$35\u201350 million).<\/p>\n<p>Bleu Royal has remained part of an important private collection for the past 50 years. This is the first time the stone, set in a ring, will be presented for sale at auction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a true miracle of nature,\u201d Rahul Kadakia, Christie\u2019s International Head of Jewellery, comments. \u201cOver our 257-year long history, Christie\u2019s has had the privilege of offering the world\u2019s rarest gems at auction, and Bleu Royal continues this tradition. We are proud to offer collectors the opportunity to own a diamond fit for royalty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Driven by collector demand and an increasingly limited supply, prices for top-quality coloured diamonds have increased exponentially in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>In the saleroom, Fancy Vivid Blue diamonds over 10 carats are virtually unheard of \u2014 in more than 250 years of auction history at Christie\u2019s, only three such stones have ever appeared for sale: The Bulgari Blue, 10.95 carats, sold for $15,762,500 in New York in October 2010; The Winston Blue, 13.22 carats, sold for $23,795,372 in Geneva in May 2014; and The Oppenheimer Blue, 14.62 carats, sold for $57,541,779 in \u00a0Geneva in May 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blue Royal to take centre stage at the upcoming Magnificent Jewels auction at Christie\u2019s Geneva on 7th November. The stunning 17.61-carat Bleu Royal is the largest Internally Flawless Fancy Vivid Blue gem ever to appear for sale in auction history. Cut and polished into a perfectly symmetrical pear combined with a rich vivid blue colour&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"thb-sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-22894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bulletin"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v14.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Bleu Royal To Headline Christie&#039;s Geneva Jewels Auction in November - Solitaire magazine is a International jewellery magazine - India\u2019s leading B2B gem and jewellery magazine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow\" \/>\n<meta name=\"googlebot\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta name=\"bingbot\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/gjepc.org\/solitaire\/bleu-royal-to-headline-christies-geneva-jewels-auction-in-november\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bleu Royal To Headline Christie&#039;s Geneva Jewels Auction in November - Solitaire magazine is a International jewellery magazine - India\u2019s leading B2B gem and jewellery magazine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Blue Royal to take centre stage at the upcoming Magnificent Jewels auction at Christie\u2019s Geneva on 7th November. 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