The new record holder for price isn’tquite as large, so how it could manage to reap those sparkling bucks?Experts say it’s all in the quality of the cut and the “fancy vividblue hue”, a result of trace amounts of an element called boron in its crystal structure. That makes it worth about 10 times what a regular white diamond would bring.
So who owns this incredible piece ofjewelry? A company called Moussaieff Jewellers in London, whichspecializes in acquiring such rare specimens, ponyed up the money aftera private Asian collector decided he needed a little - or in this casea lot more - cash.
Which just goes to show you don’t always need yellow to turn a shade of blue into something green.
Photo credit: Mike Clarke/AFP/Getty Images
So who owns this incredible piece ofjewelry? A company called Moussaieff Jewellers in London, whichspecializes in acquiring such rare specimens, ponyed up the money aftera private Asian collector decided he needed a little - or in this casea lot more - cash.
Which just goes to show you don’t always need yellow to turn a shade of blue into something green.
Photo credit: Mike Clarke/AFP/Getty Images
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