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\n\tEarlier this week, a 5.5-carat diamond ring sold for over $17 million dollars during Christie\u2019s Magnificent Jewels auction in Zurich. The triangular-cut stone, known as Ocean Dream, thanks to its blue-green color, had an estimate of about $9-12 million. It is set into an 18-karat white gold band and surrounded by pink and white diamonds.<\/p>\n
Fortune<\/em> magazine reported that the buyer was an unnamed private client and that the ring took 20 minute to sell.<\/p>\n \n\tMax Fawcett, Global Head of Christie\u2019s Jewellery, noted in a statement that this is the second time Ocean Dream has been offered at auction. (t sold for nearly $10 million in 2014, also at Christie\u2019s Geneva.) According to the Smithsonian, it is \u201cone of the eight rarest diamonds in the world.\u201d Ocean Dream was one of seven colored stones in the 2003 exhibition \u201cSplendor of Diamonds\u201d at the Smithsonian\u2019s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n \n\tThe ring comes with a letter issued by the Gemological Institute of America (GIA) confirming that it is \u201cthe largest Fancy Vivid blue-green diamond of natural color that GIA has examined as of the date of this letter,\u201d which was written on Apr. 10, 2026. The GIA report further details the diamond\u2019s history. It was extracted in central Africa in the 1990s, and in its uncut state weighed nearly 12 carats. The stone\u2019s combination of tone and size is \u201cquite unusual.\u201d <\/p>\n \n\tNaturally occurring colored diamonds (all quite rare) exist in a range of colors, with reds and purples being the most rare and yellows being least rare. It ranks SI-1 on the GIA\u2019s clarity scale, meaning that it is \u201cslightly occluded\u201d (imperfections are visible under magnification).<\/p>\n \n\tThe May 13 sale took place at Zurich\u2019s Four Seasons Hotel des Bergues. It featured a total of 87 lots, including pieces by Cartier and Van Cleef & Arpels and brought in a total of $66 million.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/are-blue-green-diamond-ring-sold-17-million-christies-geneva-1234785808\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-15-at-3.19.40-PM.png?w=1024″] Earlier this week, a 5.5-carat diamond ring sold for over $17 million dollars during Christie\u2019s Magnificent Jewels auction in Zurich. The triangular-cut stone, known as Ocean Dream, thanks to its blue-green color, had an estimate of about $9-12 million. It is set into an 18-karat white gold band and surrounded by pink […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,226],"class_list":["post-1939508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-artnews-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1939508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1939508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1939508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1939508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}