Sotheby’s has announced that in its latest Important Watches sale, held April 5, 2017, in Hong Kong, the auction house raked in HK$57,990,000 ($7,470,000).
The Top lot was the Cartier “Flamingo and Lotus Automaton Clock”, which sold for HK$4,180,000 ($530,000).
Last week (April 4) in Hong Kong, Sotheby’s sold the Pink Star, a 59.60-carat oval mixed-cut Fancy Vivid Pink Internally Flawless diamond, for HK$553 million ($71.2 million). This, according to Sotheby’s, is a new world auction record for any diamond or jewel. The Pink Star was acquired by jeweller Chow Tai Fook. The CTF Pink is the largest Internally Flawless Fancy Vivid Pink diamond that the Gemological Institute of America (GIA) has ever graded. It has received the highest colour and clarity grades from the GIA for pink diamonds. Mined by De Beers in Africa in 1999, “the 132.5-carat rough diamond was meticulously cut and polished over a period of two years and transformed into this stunning gemstone”, according to Sotheby’s.
