A mystery buyer has bought an extremely rare purple-pink 14.83-carat diamond, which was mined and cut in Russia. The gem has become the largest of its kind ever to appear at Sotheby’s in Geneva.
The “fancy vivid” oval stone, dubbed ‘The Spirit of the Rose’, was sold earlier this week for “a record-breaking” $26.6 million, according to Sotheby’s. The bid was placed by an anonymous buyer over the phone.
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