A 13.22 carat diamond known as The Blue has fetched $23.8 million at an auction at Christie’s in Geneva. The Blue had been estimated to sell for $21 to $25 million.
Swatch Group’s Harry Winston brand bought the blue stone. The sale of this stone allowed London-based Christie’s to regain the jewellery auction crown with a sale total of $154 million, beating a record Sotheby’s held for a matter of hours.
Christie’s also sold 27 lots for more than $1 million, including a Cartier belle epoque diamond brooch for almost $18 million and a pear-shaped D-flawless 75.97 carat-diamond for about $15 million.
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