Most valuable pink diamonds sold at auction

“The Glowing Rose”, a 10.08-carat vivid pink cushion-cut diamond – only the third of its kind over 10 carats to appear on the market in the past decade – is expected to fetch $20 million at Sotheby’s

Glowing Rose was cut and polished from 21-carat rough diamond unearthed in 2023 from a mine in Angola

1.44mm
11.30mm


GLOWING ROSE

Colour: Fancy Vivid Pink – highest grade for colour quality

Clarity: VVS2 – high grade; internal flaws (inclusions) extremely difficult to see under 10× magnification

Type: IIa – among most chemically pure, with exceptional optical transparency

Rarity – fewer than 0.01% of all diamonds are coloured, with pink being one of rarest to occur naturally

MOST EXPENSIVE PINK DIAMONDS
CTF Pink Star
Williamson Pink Star
Pink Legacy
Graff Pink
Princie DiamondCarats
59.60
11.15
18.96
23.88
34.65

Auction price/date
$71.2 million / 2017
$57.7 million / 2022
$50.3 million / 2018
$46.1 million / 2016
$39.3 million / 2013

Sources: Sotheby’s, Forbes, Gemological Institute of America (GIA)
Pictures: Sotheby’s
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