Blues, Pinks Spur Christie's $492M Sales Total

RAPAPORT... Jewelry sales at Christie's garnered a combined $492.3million this year, driven by expensive blue and pink diamonds. The company's top-selling piece was the Winston Pink Legacy,a rectangular-cut, 18.96-carat, fancy-vivid-pink diamond, which sold in Genevalast month for $50.4 million. Other top lots for the year included apear-shaped, 8.01-carat, fancy-vivid-blue, internally flawless diamond necklaceby Moussaieff, which went for $20.5 million in Hong Kong in May. A cushion-cut, 8.08-carat, fancy-vivid-blue Bulgari diamondring rounded out the top three, fetching $18.3 million in New York last week. The 2018 total is below the $556.7 million Christie'sreported for last year. That figure included the 14.93-carat Pink Promise, whichsold for $32.2 million, and the Art of de Grisogono emerald and diamondnecklace - featuring a 163.41-carat center diamond - which fetched $33.7million.Image: The Winston Pink Legacy. (Christie's)