The Grisogono necklace with a 163-carat diamond sold for $ 33.7 million from Christie’s ♦ ︎
Grisogono’s diamond necklace signs a record from Christie’s. The jewel, with a big 163-carat diamond, the largest of its kind sold at auction, was sold for 33.7 million dollars at Christie’s auction in Geneva. The diamond, perfect, colorless, was obtained from a rough stone of 404 carats found in Angola. The diamond is mounted in white gold with other diamonds and emeralds. The necklace was designed by Grisogono, designed personally by the founder and artistic director, Fawaz Gruosi, based in Geneva, and it needed for over 1,700 hours of work to complete it. The necklace has been called The Art of de Grisogono, the identity of the buyer has not been revealed.
Yet a comment by the Bloomberg agency has shown less enthusiasm, although the 33.7 million price seems stratospheric: “I am disappointed that the Art of De Grisogono didn’t sell for a more dazzling price,” said Tobias Kormind, head of 77Diamonds.com, a London-based online jeweler, in a statement. The stone is 40 percent bigger than a diamond Sotheby’s sold in 2013 for about $31 million, he said. “This is a worrying sign for the top end of the diamond market.” Federico Graglia
