The world's most expensive earrings ever sold

The mismatched pair of earings consists of two coloured pear-shaped diamonds, called Apollo and Artemis, and are perfectly matched in size, cut and tonality

Curated By: Forbes India

Published: May 27, 2017

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Graded Fancy Vivid Blue by the Gemological Institute of America (GIA) and weighing an impressive 14.54 carats, the ‘Apollo Blue’ was the largest Internally Flawless Fancy Vivid Blue diamond ever to be offered at a Sotheby’s auction. Sotheby’s spring sale of Magnificent Jewels and Noble Jewels took place last week at Mandarin Oriental, Geneva

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The ‘Artemis Pink’ displays an elegant and delicate Fancy Intense Pink hue. Weighing 16 carats, the stone has been carefully cut into a captivating pear shape, matching the Apollo Blue, which perfectly showcases the stone’s colour and clarity. The GIA has declared the ‘Artemis Pink’ to be a ‘Type IIa’ diamond, describing this category as ‘the most chemically pure type’ of diamonds, which ‘often have exceptional optical transparency’

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Apart from the two diamonds, there were some other masterpieces at Sotheby’s spring sale of Magnificent Jewels and Noble Jewels.For example, this intense purplish pink diamond.