{"id":80693,"date":"2026-05-14T12:48:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T12:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/blue-green-diamond-called-the-worlds-rarest-sells-for-record-17-3-million-at-auction\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T12:48:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T12:48:16","slug":"blue-green-diamond-called-the-worlds-rarest-sells-for-record-17-3-million-at-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/blue-green-diamond-called-the-worlds-rarest-sells-for-record-17-3-million-at-auction\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue-green diamond called the &#8220;world&#8217;s rarest&#8221; sells for record $17.3 million at auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>A 5.5-carat triangular-cut diamond billed as the largest fancy vivid blue-green diamond known to exist sold for $17.3 million on Wednesday, Christie&#8217;s said, calling it a record price for a stone of its kind sold at auction.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Ocean Dream,&#8221; the standout offer at the auction house&#8217;s Geneva sale of jewelry, was found in Central Africa in the 1990s. The price easily topped the presale estimate to fetch 7-10 million francs (around $9-13 million).<\/p>\n<p>Rahul Kadakia, president of Christie&#8217;s Asia Pacific, said that an unspecified private client was the buyer, and the stone took about 20 minutes to sell &#8211; an indication that interest was high.<\/p>\n<p>The price was more than double that of the roughly $8.5 million that the gem, which was featured among rare colored diamonds at the Smithsonian Splendour of Diamonds Exhibition in 2003, sold for at Christie&#8217;s in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A stellar result worthy of the world&#8217;s rarest blue-green diamond,&#8221; Tobias Kormind, managing director of online jeweler 77 Diamonds, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/05\/14\/8dbbdeb4-9500-46a6-bee5-421f41c4ad4a\/thumbnail\/620x413g7\/4f92c632ae49be691c20a127a9f60e6c\/ap26127603402074.jpg#\" alt=\"Switzerland Jewelry Auction \" height=\"413\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/05\/14\/8dbbdeb4-9500-46a6-bee5-421f41c4ad4a\/thumbnail\/620x413g7\/4f92c632ae49be691c20a127a9f60e6c\/ap26127603402074.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/05\/14\/8dbbdeb4-9500-46a6-bee5-421f41c4ad4a\/thumbnail\/1240x826g7\/6a71618fe2cb0a57dc44783d261178d6\/ap26127603402074.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">A Christie&#8217;s employee displays &#8220;The Ocean Dream,&#8221; the largest fancy vivid blue-green diamond, weighting 5.50 carats, at Christie&#8217;s in Geneva, Switzerland, Thursday, May 7, 2026.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Jean-Christophe Bott \/ AP<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christies.com\/en\/lot\/lot-6586279\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to Christie&#8217;s<\/a>, the &#8220;Ocean Dream&#8221; weighs 9.4 grams and has an additional ring mount set with sculpted rock crystal, round diamonds and pink diamonds.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, a 6-carat fancy vivid blue diamond at a Geneva auction at Sotheby&#8217;s didn&#8217;t sell.<\/p>\n<p>The auction house said that the rare stone unearthed from South Africa&#8217;s famed Cullinan mine had come in with a presale estimate of 7.2 million to 9.6 million francs ($9.2 million to $12.3 million).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Although the diamond didn&#8217;t find a buyer during the auction, we are now in conversations with several interested parties and are confident that it will find a new home soon,&#8221; Sotheby&#8217;s said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Both houses say collectors are increasingly drawn to rare, colored diamonds, which make up only a fraction of all the diamonds mined around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Christie&#8217;s and Soteby&#8217;s have auctioned off high-profile diamonds over the years.<\/p>\n<p>In 2023, an exceptionally rare blue diamond weighing 17.61 carats <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/blue-diamond-bleu-royal-auction-christies-nearly-44-million-dollars-geneva\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">sold for $43.8 million<\/a><\/span> at a Christie&#8217;s auction in Geneva. 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