After the auction in Geneva, to 9 december the Sotheby’s Magnificent Jewels will in New York. And the pieces offered are really magnificent or, better, are historical. So much so that the auction house aims to pull off a nice booty: 500 lots for sale are estimated over $ 52 million. In catalog there are, in effect, exceptional pieces. As the platinum necklace by Van Cleef & Arpels in 1939 that belonged to Queen of Egypt Nazli Fouad. The queen had commissioned the series, as well as a tiara, for the marriage of his daughter, Princess Fawzia. The jewel is made up of 118 diamonds. The estimate is about 4.6 million dollars. But this is not the only piece regal. There is also a suite of jewels designed by Suzanne Belperron in 1935, that belonged to the Duchess of Windsor: a pair of white gold bracelets, chalcedony, sapphire and diamonds (estimate up to 600 thousand dollars) and a necklace with a pendant in chalcedony (it estimates up to 550 thousand dollars). The suite has already been beaten in 1987, in a sale dedicated to the collection of jewels of the Duchess.
Finally, in addition to jewelry, for sale there are a number of valuable stones, like a ring with sapphire Kashmir, sugar loaf cabochon, of 25.87 carats (estimate up to 4.5 million dollars). Another highlight, a pair of earrings with Colombian emeralds untreated (estimated up to 2.2 million dollars). Federico Graglia
