{"id":49170,"date":"2022-10-08T01:38:25","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T16:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/07\/rare-diamond-williamson-pink-star-hong-kong-auction"},"modified":"2022-10-08T01:38:25","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T16:38:25","slug":"rare-fancy-vivid-pink-diamond-sells-for-52m-in-hong-kong-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=49170","title":{"rendered":"Rare \u2018fancy vivid pink\u2019 diamond sells for \u00a352m in Hong Kong auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Williamson Pink Star sets world record highest price per carat for a diamond sold at auction<\/p>\n<p>An extremely rare \u201cfancy vivid pink\u201d diamond has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sothebys.com\/en\/buy\/auction\/2022\/the-williamson-pink-star\/fancy-vivid-pink-diamond-and-diamond-ring-11-15ke?locale=en\">sold for 453m Hong Kong dollars (\u00a352m)<\/a> \u2013 more than double <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/07\/pink-diamond-expected-to-fetch-more-than-20m-at-hong-kong-auction\">its estimated price<\/a> \u2013 and set a world record for the highest price per carat for a diamond sold at auction.<\/p>\n<p>The 11.15-carat Williamson Pink Star diamond, which is named after another pink diamond given to Queen Elizabeth II as a wedding gift, was sold to an undisclosed buyer at auction by Sotheby\u2019s Hong Kong on Friday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/07\/rare-diamond-williamson-pink-star-hong-kong-auction\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Williamson Pink Star sets world record highest price per carat for a diamond sold at auctionAn extremely rare \u201cfancy vivid pink\u201d diamond has sold for 453m Hong Kong dollars (\u00a352m) \u2013 more than double its estimated price \u2013 and set a world record for the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1376,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[401,41,6,48,1457,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-hong-kong","category-tanzania","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1376"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49171,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49170\/revisions\/49171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}