A 21.01-carat diamond set a new record when it sold online for $2.5 million. Previously, the record for an online diamond sale was held by a 28.86-carat D / VVS1 stone, which sold for $2.1 million in a Christie’s Jewels Online sale in June 2020, IDEX Online reports.
The 21.01-carat D / IF stone is set in a platinum engagement ring and, according to Don Palmieri, founder and president of GCAL (Gem Certification & Assurance Lab), in New York, which appraised the diamond, “might have sold for nearly $1 million more at a high-end jeweler. This is an enormous sale that would normally take place in person.”
The record-breaking diamond was bought by a 59-year-old businessman who “had it delivered by an armed security to a hotel in Montana […] and promptly proposed to his partner.”
