Christie's Auction: Largest White Diamond @ 228.3-carat "The Rock"

Diamond prices are at their highest 🠉🠝 in a year (see diamond price index link below), and this huge, gorgeous 228.3-carat diamond is wider than your thumb. 

How high will it sell at auction on May 11, 2022?? Maybe at least $30 million 😃😮😯😀 ...

Christie’s Rahul Kadakia and “The Rock” 228.31-Carat Diamond - Credit: Christie's

Bonkers Diamond!

Fox Business: Largest white diamond ever !

Diamond Price Index

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List: Rare Diamonds Sold at Auction

Number 1 @ $71.2 million
Pink Star Diamond

AP Photo/Vincent Yu

Link:  GIANT: Priciest Diamond Ever Sold

Number 2 @ $57.5 million
Oppenheimer Blue Diamond

Denis Balibouse / Reuters, file

Link: 14.6 Carat Blue Diamond

Number 3 @ $48.4 million
Blue Moon Diamond 

Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images

Link:  12.03 Carat Fancy Vivid Blue

Number 4 @ $46 million
Graff Pink Diamond

Image via Sotheby's

Link:  

24.78 Carat Emerald-Cut Fancy Intense Pink Diamond

And he [Jesus Christ] said unto them,

 Take heed, and beware of covetousness: 

for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance

of the things which he possesseth.

Luke: 12:15








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Hermes: The most expensive Birkin bag EVER!

A Hermes Birkin bag was recently offered at a Christie's auction in Hong Kong. Note to anonymous Bidder -- Use it in good health!

pc: House Beautiful

Details

Name: Hermes 2014 Himalaya Birkin

Composition: Rare, matte crocodile skin;  encrusted in 205 diamonds and 18-karat gold buckles

Price: $380,000

For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
Jesus speaking, Matthew 16:26

pc: House Beautiful

Link --- >> Worth More Than a House


Hermes Birkin in Crocodile