Are you dreaming of giving your ears the VVIP treat in the future? Apollo and Artemis could be yours next time they are auctioned but you need to start piling up the money now. The earrings were sold off for a whopping $57.4 million at Sotheby’s on Tuesday night, setting a record for the most expensive earrings ever auctioned on earth.
Sotheby's The blue and pink pear-shaped diamonds named Apollo and Artemis after the Greek gods were sold separately but to the same buyer, Forbes report. While the dreamy blue one went for $42.08 million, the pink was snagged for more than $15.3 million, totaling $57.4 million.
Th 14.54-carat Apollo blue, according to Sotheby’s is the “largest internally flawless fancy vivid blue diamond ever to be offered at auction,” and “it was graded as a type IIb diamond, which amounts to less than 1% of all diamonds in the world.”
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For the beautifully pear-shaped 16-carat, Artemis Pink rated as an 11a diamond, is “the most chemically pure” of its kind. “I am delighted that the stones will remain together as earrings,” said after the sale by the chairman of Sotheby’s International Jewelry Division, David Bennett.
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