{"id":12306,"date":"2017-12-08T09:50:54","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T09:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.serendipitydiamonds.com\/blog\/?p=12306"},"modified":"2018-09-25T15:06:44","modified_gmt":"2018-09-25T15:06:44","slug":"fellows-sell-graff-yellow-moment-diamond-ring-for-1-1-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.serendipitydiamonds.com\/blog\/fellows-sell-graff-yellow-moment-diamond-ring-for-1-1-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Fellows Sell Graff Yellow Moment Diamond Ring for 1.1 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Image \u00a9 Fellows\u00a0 2017<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Graff fancy yellow diamond ring sells for \u00a31.1 million<\/h2>\n<p>Fellows Auctioneers have broken another house record this week, with the sale of the Graff fancy yellow diamond ring. The ring holds a 43.59 carat fancy intense yellow radiant-cut diamond set between two tapered baguette-cut diamonds, weighing 1.62cts as their combined weight. The diamond went for \u00a31.1 million (\u00a31,306,600 including VAT)\u00a0after feverish bidding for the prized yellow diamond ring.<\/p>\n<p>This is a milestone achievement for Birmingham&#8217;s Jewellery Quarter auction house, and for the Jewellery Quarter itself.<\/p>\n<p>Graff is one of the World&#8217;s best-known\u00a0jewelry houses, famous for cutting some of the finest fancy colored diamonds.<\/p>\n<p>Their history of prized yellow diamonds includes the following. All of the following diamonds were natural fancy yellow diamonds, amongst the largest examples in the World.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12312\" src=\"https:\/\/www.serendipitydiamonds.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Graff-yellow-diamonds.jpg\" alt=\"Graff fancy yellow diamonds through history\" width=\"850\" height=\"639\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.serendipitydiamonds.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Graff-yellow-diamonds.jpg 850w, https:\/\/www.serendipitydiamonds.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Graff-yellow-diamonds-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.serendipitydiamonds.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Graff-yellow-diamonds-768x577.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Image\u00a0\u00a9<\/em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><em>Serendipty Diamonds\u00a0 2017<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Graff natural fancy yellow diamonds<\/h2>\n<p><strong>The Saharah<\/strong> &#8211; Largest fancy vivid yellow diamond in the world. 132.43 carats<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Graff Vivid Yellow<\/strong> &#8211; 100.09 carats<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Romance of Africa<\/strong> &#8211; 102.11 carats<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Delaire Sunrise<\/strong> &#8211; Largest square Emerald cut fancy vivid yellow diamond in the world. 118.08 carats<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Hope of Africa<\/strong> &#8211; 115.91 carats<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Ultimate Yellow<\/strong> &#8211; 70.12 carats<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Golden Empress<\/strong> &#8211; 132.55 carats<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Graff Sunflowe<\/strong>r &#8211; 107.46 carats<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Tsarina<\/strong> &#8211; 90.14 carats<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Royal Premier Diamond<\/strong> &#8211; 70.38 carats<\/p>\n<p>Laurence Graff is well known for his instinctive understanding of gemstones. His abilities have enabled him to visualize\u00a0the final polished diamond to release the full potential of a piece of rough diamond.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;There is an extreme beauty to a diamond. It&#8217;s like art. It gives you incredible pleasure, and it speaks to you with its life&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.graffdiamonds.com\/house\/heritage\/\">Laurence Graff.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image \u00a9 Fellows\u00a0 2017 Graff fancy yellow diamond ring sells for \u00a31.1 million Fellows Auctioneers have broken another house record this week, with the sale of the Graff fancy yellow diamond ring. The ring holds a 43.59 carat fancy intense yellow radiant-cut diamond set between two tapered baguette-cut diamonds, weighing 1.62cts as their combined weight.<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.serendipitydiamonds.com\/blog\/fellows-sell-graff-yellow-moment-diamond-ring-for-1-1-million\/\"> Read the full article&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12307,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133,922],"tags":[920,921,98],"class_list":["post-12306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diamonds-2","category-news","tag-graff","tag-moment","tag-yellow-diamond"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.serendipitydiamonds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.serendipitydiamonds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.serendipitydiamonds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.serendipitydiamonds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.serendipitydiamonds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12306"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.serendipitydiamonds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13675,"href":"https:\/\/www.serendipitydiamonds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12306\/revisions\/13675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.serendipitydiamonds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.serendipitydiamonds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.serendipitydiamonds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.serendipitydiamonds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}