Exceptional Rare Burmese Ruby Sells for $30 Million at the Geneva Auction!

Exceptionally Rare 25.59 carats Pigeon Blood Red Burmese Ruby sold for over US $30 Million! Photo Courtesy : Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP, File)

Wow! Wow! Wow! This is one of the most beautiful Rubies to have surfaced in the recent years at an auction and needless to say, the Most Expensive Ruby in the World!

Sunrise Ruby

A perfect Pigeon Blood Red, Burmese Origin, exceptional clarity & huge 25.59 carats size! I don't think we have seen another ruby like this of this size in the recent years. This deserved a record-breaking value & it is exactly what it got.

25.59 carats of breathtaking beauty sold at a 300% premium at US $30.3 Million! That is over $1.17 Million per carat!

List of Records set by this Ruby : 

1. The most valuable Ruby ever sold.
2. The most expensive stone by Cartier.
3. The highest per carat Ruby valued ever.

Needless to say, it is a natural unheated Ruby set in Platinum with 2 diamond accents weighing 2.47 carats & 2.70 carats respectively.

A pink diamond ring once owned by Princess Mathilde Bonaparte, the niece of Napoleon I, sold for $15.9 million.

Model showing the Pink Diamond & the Ruby side by side.