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Pre-Auction Analysis: May 15th-16th 2018, Christie’s & Sotheby’s Geneva, Magnificent Jewels

It’s well known that round fancy color brilliant cut diamonds achieve the highest price per carat. The reason for that lies in the fact that there is very little one can do in order to concentrate the color and spread it evenly around the face up of the stone.

Pre-Auction Analysis: April 17th-18th 2018, Christie’s & Sotheby’s New York, Magnificent Jewels

Christie’s & Sotheby’s New York pre-auction analysis

Pre-Auction Analysis: April 3rd 2018, Sotheby’s Hong Kong, Magnificent Jewels and Jadeite

A rare and important size and shape for any blue diamond, however in spite of the closed mounting on the back and the pink halo

Pre-Auction Analysis: November 28th 2017, Christie’s Hong Kong, Magnificent Jewels

Low color dispersion is inherent in emerald cut diamonds especially when they are rectangular. In this case, the color dispersion

Pre-Auction Analysis: Geneva, November 14th 2017 Christie’s and November 15th 2017, Sotheby’s

A fancy intense pink old mine pear shape cut with a very noticeable black inclusion underneath the crown and a penetrating feather from the girdle inside (hidden under one of the gold prongs).

Pre-Auction Analysis: October 3rd 2017, Sotheby’s Hong-Kong

This pre-auction analysis will focus on visual elements that are not expressed on the GIA report, as well as other general observations.

Pre-Auction Analysis: May 2017, Christie’s Hong-Kong

This pre-auction analysis will focus on visual elements that are not expressed on the GIA report, as well as other general observations that won’t appear in

Pre-Auction Analysis: May 2017, Sotheby’s and Christie’s Geneva

This Sotheby’s and Christie’s Geneva pre-auction analysis has a relatively large amount of blue fancy color diamonds.

Pre-Auction Analysis: April 2017, Sotheby’s Hong-Kong

This Sotheby’s Hong Kong pre-auction analysis focuses on visual elements that are not expressed on the GIA report, such as Undertone, Color Dispersion, and Inner-Grade (UDI). We use grades such as 1, 2, 3, and 4 to describe these features. The grade 4+ is used in special cases to describe unusual visual characteristics.

Pre-Auction Analysis: November 2016, Christie’s Hong Kong

This large Vivid Yellow Emerald cut was manufactured like a colorless diamond. Hence, we assume that it was not manufactured in the last two or three decades.

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