Graff Reveals Polished Lesotho Pink

RAPAPORT... Graff has unveiled the polished pink diamond it cut from the13.33-carat rough it purchased from Gem Diamonds in March. The jeweler set the pear-shaped, 5.63-carat, fancy-vivid-purplish-pinkstone in a rose-gold ring. Two pear-shaped shoulder stones, also cut from thesame rough, flank the center diamond. Gem Diamonds recovered the rough - the largest pink it hasunearthed since 2011 - from its Let??eng mine in Lesotho in February. Graff boughtthe stone, which it named the Graff Lesotho Pink, for $8.8 million, or $656,933per carat, a record per-carat price for a Let??eng diamond. Image: The finished 5.63--carat Graff Lesotho Pink ring. (Graff)