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A ring with a black-diamond weighing around 22 carats sold for HKD 960,000 ($122,499) at a recent Sotheby’s jewelry sale in Hong Kong.
The piece features a rose-cut black diamond in a surround of pear-shaped, round and oval rose-cut diamonds. It made six times its HKD 160,000 ($20,414) high estimate at the April 29 Fine Jewelry sale, according to the Sotheby’s website.
In total, the auction garnered HKD 58.3 million ($7.4 million). It included items from well-known designers such as Graff, Cartier and Chanel.
Here are the rest of the top five lots:
Estimate: HKD 800,000 to HKD 1.2 million ($102,082 to $153,122)
A pair of earrings bearing pear-shaped Colombian emeralds weighing 11.52 and 13.74 carats framed with and suspended from an estimated 10 carats of pear-shaped and brilliant-cut diamonds.
Estimate: HKD 800,000 to HKD 1.5 million ($102,082 to $191,402)
A ring featuring a color-changing oval, 4.37-carat Brazilian alexandrite that shifts between greenish-blue in daylight and purple under incandescent light.
Estimate: HKD 400,000 to HKD 700,000 ($51,040 to $89,321)
A pair of earrings sporting two pear-shaped, E-color, VVS2-clarity diamonds — of 3.10 and 3.16-carats — suspended from brilliant-cut diamonds.
Estimate: HKD 300,000 to HKD 500,000 ($38,281 to $63,800)
A pair of Cartier ear clips featuring two cushion-shaped, fancy-yellow diamonds, one a 5.01-carat, VS2 and the other a 5.03-carat, SI1 stone — and 2 to 3 carats of additional stones with a yellow tint.
Image: The top-selling black-diamond ring. (Sotheby’s)
