{"id":4081,"date":"2013-11-14T04:25:15","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T04:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hedgeanswers.com\/?p=1016"},"modified":"2013-11-14T04:25:15","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T04:25:15","slug":"worlds-rarest-hit-the-block-orange-carats-trifola-dalba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aandcadvisors.com\/fr\/worlds-rarest-hit-the-block-orange-carats-trifola-dalba\/","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s rarest hit the block: orange carats, trifola d\u2019Alba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hedgeanswers.com\/images\/uploads\/\/Orange-Diamond-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"World\u2019s rarest hit the block: orange carats, trifola d\u2019Alba\" width=\"163\" height=\"148\" \/>A spectacular and rare orange diamond, the largest known gem of its kind, was on Tuesday auctioned for a record $35.54 million in Geneva.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a world record price for an orange diamond, it\u2019s a world record price per carat for any coloured diamond,\u201d the Christie\u2019s auction house said of the sale.<\/p>\n<p>The price works out at USD 2.4 million per carat, beating the previous record of USD 2.15 million for the Vivid Pink Diamond sold in Hong Kong in 2009. The man who made the purchase swiftly got up and left the room to a round of applause. Christie\u2019s did not reveal his identity.<\/p>\n<p>The deep orange gemstone, found in South Africa, weighs a whopping 14.82 carats. The Gemological Institute of America (GIA) has handed it the top rating for coloured diamonds: \u201cfancy vivid\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Pure orange diamonds, also known as \u201cfire diamonds\u201d, are extremely uncommon and few have been auctioned, with the largest never more than six carats.<\/p>\n<p>In other expesive things news, eleven white truffles have gone under the hammer in Italy for 274,200 EUR (367,620 USD), including a pair bought by an anonymous buyer in China who paid out 90,000 EUR (121,210 USD), auctioneers said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>A \u201cfamous Chinese writer\u201d bidding by satellite telephone from Hong Kong fiercely outbid competitors for a 950-gram pair of truffles, organisers said, paying three times the price of gold for the white delicacy.<\/p>\n<p><em>repost AFP-relaxnews<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A spectacular and rare orange diamond, the largest known gem of its kind, was on Tuesday auctioned for a record $35.54 million in Geneva. \u201cIt\u2019s a world record price for an orange diamond, it\u2019s a world record price per carat for any coloured diamond,\u201d the Christie\u2019s auction house said of the sale. The price works [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[35,86,82],"class_list":["post-4081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-life","tag-buy","tag-luxury","tag-worlds-first"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aandcadvisors.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aandcadvisors.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aandcadvisors.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aandcadvisors.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aandcadvisors.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aandcadvisors.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aandcadvisors.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aandcadvisors.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aandcadvisors.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}