LONDON, England (CNN) — What recession? Christie’s, the famed auction house, this week sold a nearly 36-carat diamond for $24.3 million, which it said was the highest price for a diamond sold at auction. The 35.56-carat diamond dates back to the 17th century. The previous record was a mere $16.5 million for a 100-carat diamond [...]

A rare blue-grey diamond, which traces its history to India, and had been given to the girl in one of the most famous paintings in Western art, will soon go under the hammer at Christies, London. The Wittelsbach diamond, which apparently originated from the Indian diamond mines, is almost one inch in width. A Christies [...]

The diamond business is a mysterious entity all its own. Those in the business may have been selling diamonds for years and know how to get the most from the sale of their goods. When shopping for diamonds, many consumers have a tendency to be drawn in by certain tricks of the trade in the [...]

Diamonds are gemstones which come in various styles.  This in itself provides quite a lot of options for the wearers thereof.  Although few have the money to put forward to pay for the top of the line diamond, there are many lesser varieties which are definitely not less in their equivocal beauty.  One type of [...]