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November 12, 2024
A uncommon sq. 37-carat emerald owned by the Aga Khan fetched almost 9 million {dollars} at public sale in Geneva on Tuesday, making it the world’s most costly inexperienced stone.
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Bought by Christie’s, the Cartier diamond and emerald brooch, which will also be worn as a pendant, dethrones a chunk of jewelry made by the style home Bulgari, which Richard Burton gave as a marriage present to fellow actor Elizabeth Taylor, as probably the most treasured emerald.
In 1960, Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan commissioned Cartier to set the emerald in a brooch with 20 marquise-cut diamonds for British socialite Nina Dyer, to whom he was briefly married.
Dyer then auctioned off the emerald to lift cash for animals in 1969.
By probability that was at Christie’s very first such sale in Switzerland on the shores of Lake Geneva, with the emerald discovering its means again to the one hundred and tenth version this 12 months.
It was purchased by jeweller Van Cleef & Arpels earlier than passing a number of years later into the palms of the USA’ Harry Winston, nicknamed the “King of Diamonds”.
“Emeralds are hot right now, and this one ticks all the boxes,” stated Christie’s EMEA Head of Jewelry Max Fawcett.
“We might see an emerald of this quality come up for sale once every five or six years.”
Additionally set with diamonds, the earlier record-holder fetched $6.5 million at an public sale of a part of Hollywood legend Elizabeth Taylor’s famend jewelry assortment in New York.
