DIAMONDS ALROSA, the cutting and polishing division of Alrosa, has announced that its auction of colored diamonds in Israel this November raked in $1.209 million.
Alrosa sold the entire assortment brought to auction – 262 polished diamonds with the total weight of 209.34 carats, including 15 rare pink diamonds weighing 15.31 carats. In addition to the $1.209 million from the colored diamonds, Alrosa also put for the auction nine colorless diamonds with the total weight of 28.8 carats. These were sold for a total of $347,500.
Pavel Vinikhin, Director of DIAMONDS ALROSA, commented: “The auction attracted 85 firms and Israeli clients were in the majority. Companies from Belgium, the USA and China were also the participants of the auction. Fancy colored polished diamonds represented the main assortment of our November tender. Such pieces are always in great demand among our clients, especially the rare pink ones”.
