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A pair of diamond earrings by India-based jewelry designer Nirav Modi sold for over $1.38 million at a recent Christie’s jewelry auction in Hong Kong.
But what makes them so expensive? Nirav Modi, the founder of the eponymous jewelry label, explained it’s the rare colored diamonds he used.

Courtesy of Nirav Modi

“The annual production of high quality Fancy Pink diamonds such as the ones used here would barely fill a champagne flute and Fancy Blue diamonds are even rarer than pinks,” he said in an email to India Real Time on Friday. He added that the white diamonds in the earrings were the purest form of diamond, known as Type IIa, which added to the price. The bidder remained anonymous.
Besides the rare diamonds, what’s striking about the pendants is that they don’t match.The centerpiece of one of the earrings is an oval-shaped 2.22-carat blue diamond, set within a diamond frame and matched with a pear-shaped Golconda white diamond at its top.
In the other earring, the stones are reversed: A larger white diamond weighing 2.06 carats hangs from the circular frame while a smaller blue diamond on the other end of the ear piece. The diamonds, which include smaller pink ones, are mounted on a spine of 18-karat white gold.
Mr. Modi says that mixing the colors adds to earrings’ character: “It’s really a personal style statement.”
This sale is still no match to “The Imperial Cushions,” a pair of earrings with cushion-shaped diamonds that sold for about $9.3 million at the same auction.
Last November “Perfect Pink,” a diamond which sold for $23.3 million, became the most expensive gem sold at auction in Asia.

Via: India Real Time

A pair of diamond earrings by India-based jewelry designer Nirav Modi sold for over $1.38 million at a recent Christie’s jewelry auction in Hong Kong.
But what makes them so expensive? Nirav Modi, the founder of the eponymous jewelry label, explained it’s the rare colored diamonds he used.

Courtesy of Nirav Modi

“The annual production of high quality Fancy Pink diamonds such as the ones used here would barely fill a champagne flute and Fancy Blue diamonds are even rarer than pinks,” he said in an email to India Real Time on Friday. He added that the white diamonds in the earrings were the purest form of diamond, known as Type IIa, which added to the price. The bidder remained anonymous.
Besides the rare diamonds, what’s striking about the pendants is that they don’t match.The centerpiece of one of the earrings is an oval-shaped 2.22-carat blue diamond, set within a diamond frame and matched with a pear-shaped Golconda white diamond at its top.
In the other earring, the stones are reversed: A larger white diamond weighing 2.06 carats hangs from the circular frame while a smaller blue diamond on the other end of the ear piece. The diamonds, which include smaller pink ones, are mounted on a spine of 18-karat white gold.
Mr. Modi says that mixing the colors adds to earrings’ character: “It’s really a personal style statement.”
This sale is still no match to “The Imperial Cushions,” a pair of earrings with cushion-shaped diamonds that sold for about $9.3 million at the same auction.
Last November “Perfect Pink,” a diamond which sold for $23.3 million, became the most expensive gem sold at auction in Asia.

Via: India Real Time