JEWELLERY
As you can imagine, this comes with a price tag. Pink diamonds are
What should we look for in a pink diamond?
one of the most expensive stones you can buy so it’s unsurprising
that we usually see them on the hands of royalty or A-list celebrities!
It’s all about the colour. The greater the saturation (i.e. the more
intense the colour), the better.
How much does a pink diamond cost?
A coloured diamond is graded in order of its increasing colour
A lot! As with most diamonds, the price depends on the carat size. strength from Faint, Very Light, Light, Fancy Light and Fancy through
However, colour saturation is a huge factor as well. A 1 carat (ct) to Fancy Intense, Fancy Vivid, Fancy Dark and Fancy Deep.
fancy pink diamond might retail for around £125,000-150,000, while
a 1ct fancy vivid pink diamond could easily retail for more than To show the scale of stone colour and its price, if you take the ring
£500,000-600,000. David Beckham reportedly gifted Victoria with on her 30th birthday,
that was a 12ct “pink champagne” colour – probably a fancy
It’s reported that Blake Lively’s engagement ring, a light pink oval
brownish pink - which held a value of around £800,000.
cut 12ct diamond, cost fiancé Ryan Reynolds in the region of £1.5
My personal preference is a purple pink diamond. The purple adds
million.
a deeper colouring or reddish tint to the pink, as opposed to the
What makes pink diamonds pink? generally more favourably viewed straight pink colour.
Truthfully, it’s a mystery! We know that diamonds are coloured What should we avoid if we’re thinking of buying a pink
through the introduction of a foreign element to the carbon diamond?
structure of the diamond. Blue diamonds have a trace of boron and
green diamonds have been naturally treated at some point in their Look out for brown tints as this can diminish the value of the stone.
life by radiation. However, we simply do not know what makes pink Generally speaking, the key is to look for an unmodified (in this
diamonds pink. We will one day, but the scientists are still trying to case, no brown or brownish) purple pink, purplish pink or pink
figure that out. colour graded by The Gemological Institute of America (GIA), a non-
profit institute dedicated to research and education in the field of
gemmology and the jewellery arts.
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The Art of Luxury
Issue 43 2020