Record of Records: at exactly at 20:55 hours Geneva, after 25 minutes of the race, at auction Christie’s is came an offer-bomb to Oppenheimer Blue Diamond: 57.5 million dollars. Rahul Kadakia, international director of the jewelry department, has sold so one of the finest diamonds ever seen at auction. It is a new world record. The battle was intense, he tells who was present, the tension in the air was palpable. The rich private collector who won the diamond is anonymous. The previous record at auction belonged to another a blue diamond, sold in November 2015 in Geneva: The Blue Moon of Josephine, sold for 46.4 million. But the Christie’s auction was also something else. Was for sale, for example, the collection of Princess Gabriela zu Leiningen: all her jewels were sold, for a total revenue of 22.5 million. She is lucky. In particular, the Pohl diamond was sold for 4.3 million dollars. Federico Graglia
