{"id":426415,"date":"2026-05-13T23:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T23:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/426415\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T23:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T23:46:08","slug":"rare-ocean-dream-blue-green-diamond-sells-for-28m-at-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/426415\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare \u2018Ocean Dream\u2019 blue-green diamond sells for $28m at auction"},"content":{"rendered":"

The fancy vivid blue-green diamond is triangular in shape and \u201cthe size of the nail on your smallest finger\u201d, according to Fawcett.<\/p>\n

It was sold for 13.6m Swiss francs (US$17.3m) in Geneva, a new record for a blue-green diamond at auction, it said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe sold the stone in 2014 for eight and a half million dollars. It was bought by a private Asian collector who enjoyed it. She wore it,\u201d Fawcett said.<\/p>\n

The auction saw three clients from different parts of the world bidding on the gem. The winner had chosen to remain anonymous, Fawcett said.<\/p>\n

The gem was first extracted from a rough stone weighing 11.70-carats, Christie\u2019s said.<\/p>\n

It was cut and exhibited at the Smithsonian Institute\u2019s Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC, in 2003 as part of a Splendour of Diamonds exhibit.<\/p>\n

The United States show featured red, orange, yellow, pink, blue, blue-green and white diamonds, ranging from 5.11-carats of the Moussaieff Red to 203.04-carats of the De Beers Millennium Star.<\/p>\n

– AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The fancy vivid blue-green diamond is triangular in shape and \u201cthe size of the nail on your smallest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[73192,1975,1978,218654,138,15129,35291,299,6440,2082,10053,19136,1132,130,111,139,69,11599,8205,8213,3048,1128,3235,131,218655],"class_list":["post-426415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-28m","tag-at","tag-auction","tag-bluegreen","tag-business","tag-christies","tag-diamond","tag-dream","tag-ever","tag-for","tag-house","tag-largest","tag-million","tag-more","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-ocean","tag-rare","tag-recorded","tag-said","tag-sells","tag-sold","tag-than","tag-us17"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}