Fancy Intense Pinkish Purple diamond

[Rubeum]

In the next auction of Christie's in New York, among the many fancy diamonds proposed, one very particular caught my attention. Upstaged than others, but it is rare to see. A 1.02 carat Fancy Intense Pinkish Purple (80.000/120.000 $).

 

[FrekeChild]

Uh. WOW.

 

[armywife13]

*sigh* I could stare at that all day.

 

[kenny]

DROOL-O-RAMA!!!!!!!!!

 

[chrono]

Is the picture truly untouched / unedited / unenhanced? If so, the FCD looks unreal!

 

[Rubeum]

Obvious. All images of the catalogs are retouched . Now it is common practice. In any case the color is definitely the one, the image looks much more saturated as it were a purple sapphire, while live colored diamonds have always much softer tones

 

[T L]

Is the picture truly untouched / unedited / unenhanced? If so, the FCD looks unreal!

Looks enhanced, no way do they look like that IRL.

 

[minousbijoux]

Is the picture truly untouched / unedited / unenhanced? If so, the FCD looks unreal!

Looks enhanced, no way do they look like that IRL.

Oh drat, TL, I thought for sure you would be posting real life pics of them. Your research skills and ability to get to the heart of the matter had me thinking that you would post pics you found somewhere of what it really looks like...

 

[chrono]

I think a softer purple would look nicer as it allows the diamond to be more dispersive. As it is, the picture isn't showing any pink modifier on my monitor.

 

[Kim Bruun]

I'm not sure I'm sold on the green side stones, but that colour looks very pretty on my screen! The saturation isn't super strong, but I wouldn't expect that of a fancy diamond except perhaps a yellow or a red. That said, I wouldn't be surprised if the stone had a more pronounced gray mask in hand.

 

[periwinkle]

i like the top ring... the purple one

 

[minousbijoux]

I'm not sure I'm sold on the green side stones, but that colour looks very pretty on my screen! The saturation isn't super strong, but I wouldn't expect that of a fancy diamond except perhaps a yellow or a red. That said, I wouldn't be surprised if the stone had a more pronounced gray mask in hand.

That's exactly what I thought as well. There is likely a reason they put those colors together - I'll let the color wheel experts in the group weigh in on that. But I wouldn't reject it even if it were a bit less saturated in hand.

 

[T L]

I'm not sure I'm sold on the green side stones, but that colour looks very pretty on my screen! The saturation isn't super strong, but I wouldn't expect that of a fancy diamond except perhaps a yellow or a red. That said, I wouldn't be surprised if the stone had a more pronounced gray mask in hand.

Pairing two stones at very different colors helps bring out their color more in my experience. For example, that's why I always think a warm color next to a cool one is very complimentary. If they put blue stones next to the purple gem, it probably wouldn't do as much for the purple gem.

My new favorite pairing is orange and turquoise blue. I often wish Leon Mege would make a paraiba ring with mandarin spessarites around it.