10 Most Expensive Diamonds in the World


Bangalore: Buying a small piece of diamond in today’s generation is very important, as it is considered as a status symbol. Usually when people go to buy a diamond jewelry the first thing that they observe is the expensive price that is attached to it.

Rediff has listed out some of the most expensive diamonds in the world that are sold at an auction.

1. Fancy Intense Pink Diamond
Price: $46 million
Year: 2010
Place: Sotheby's Geneva

Fancy Intense Pink Diamond is also called as Graff Pink diamond. It is a rare 24.78 carat which was originally owned by American celebrity jeweler Harry Winston.

The pink color diamond was mounted on a platinum ring and was sold at Sotheby's auctioneers in Geneva, Switzerland in 2010. It is one of the greatest diamonds that was ever discovered and is also among the top ten expensive diamonds in the world.

It was sold to a British diamond merchant Laurence Graff for $46 million making it to the most expensive diamond ever sold.

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