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Alrosa to Sell 51ct. Polished Stone Online
Aug 2, 2017 10:39 AM
By Rapaport News
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RAPAPORT... Alrosa will auction a 51.38-carat polished diamond online as
part of a program to build up its cutting business for high-end stones, the
miner said Tuesday.
The round brilliant-cut, D-color, VVS1-clarity, triple Ex
stone is the most expensive diamond that Russian manufacturers have cut in the
country’s history, according to Alrosa.
The Dynasty, which has 57 facets, is the centerpiece in a
collection of the same name consisting of five diamonds that Alrosa produced at
its cutting and polishing facilities. All five stones — which the miner will
offer in an online auction in November — originated from the same 179-carat
rough, called The Romanovs, which the miner recovered from the Nyurbinskaya
kimberlite pipe in Yakutia in 2015.
The company named the diamonds in the collection after Russian
dynasties that played a major role in developing the Russian jewelry industry;
the other four stones are called The Shremetevs, The Orlovs, The Vorontsovs and
The Yusupovs, weighing 16.67 carats, 5.05 carats, 1.73 carats and 1.39 carats
respectively.
The move comes after the appointment of Pavel Vinikhin last
month as director of Diamonds Alrosa, the company’s cutting division. His job
includes developing a marketing strategy to increase the business’s sales and
profits.
The Dynasty stone “gives a start to a new stage in the
development of Alrosa’s cutting division that will actively develop polishing
of extra-large and colored diamonds,” Vinikhin said. “The Dynasty demonstrated
that we can do it at the highest level.”
Alrosa aims to combine modern cutting technologies with the secrets
of jewelers from the Russian imperial court, he said.
“We expect that the revival of their traditions will be a
worthy contribution to the promotion of Russian jewelry stones’ brand in the
global market,” Vinikhin added. |
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Tags:
Alrosa, Diamonds Alrosa, Nyurbinskaya, Orlovs, Pavel Vinikhin, Rapaport News, Shremetevs, Vorontsovs, Yakutia, Yusupovs
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