![]() ![]() The owners of The Incomparable recently made the decision to recut the diamond to maximize the depth of its color, brighten its hue and improve its shape, resulting in the diamond unveiled today, the Golden Canary. The Incomparable Diamond has most recently been set in a diamond necklace by Swiss Jeweler, Mouawad, and considered by the Guinness Book of World Records in 2013 to be the most valuable necklace in the World. Since then, it has appeared in numerous museum exhibitions around the world. The diamond was first presented to the public in 1984 at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, displayed alongside the world’s most legendary diamonds. The shield-shaped step cut, with its unusually shaped facets and small table, preserved much of the shape and bulk of the original rough and was the largest internally flawless or flawless cut diamond ever created and graded by the GIA. The finished product was the third largest cut diamond to exist, The Incomparable Diamond, a Fancy Deep Brownish-Yellow wonder. ![]() The rough diamond could have been finished into the largest cut diamond in the world but instead was reduced to 407.48 carats to prioritize its color and clarity. Over the next five years, the rough diamond was cut into 15 finished stones. The girl gave the stone to her uncle, who, in turn, sold it to local diamond dealers. Little did the miners know that rubble turned out to be an 890-carat rough diamond, the fourth largest the world has ever seen. At the time, miners from the nearby MIBA diamond mine had considered it too bulky to be a diamond and had discarded it. The history of this famous diamond began in the 1980s when it was initially found amongst a pile of rubble by a young girl playing in the backyard of her uncle’s house. ![]() Sotheby’s is privileged to help write the next chapter for this incomparable, reborn gem.” Steeped in history, The Golden Canary is one of the most exquisite diamonds to ever be discovered, not only for its sheer size and intensity in color but for its stunning beauty that is sure to captivate collectors around the world. Just two weeks after the record-breaking sale of the Williamson Pink Star for $57.7 million, we are honored to offer the largest polished diamond in present existence to appear at auction. Quig Bruning, Head of Jewelry for Sotheby’s America’s commented, “We have had an exceptional year of presenting extraordinary colored diamonds at our global jewelry auctions, as the demand and appetite for these rarities continue to grow. The Golden Canary is set to highlight Sotheby’s Magnificent Jewels auction in New York on December 7, with an estimate in the region of $15 million, and offered without reserve, with bidding starting at just $1. The diamond was discovered as an 890-carat rough.Formerly weighing just over 407 carats as the famous “Incomparable Diamond,” The Golden Canary has been recut from its original shield shape into a more traditional pear shape and is now deeper in color, brighter in hue, and more classic in profile. Originally known as the Incomparable Diamond and discovered in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the 1980s, the diamond was recut from its previous 407-carat shield shape to deepen the colour. “The Golden Canary captivated me from the moment I saw it - with its monumental size, golden hue and impeccable clarity - it is truly an extraordinary diamond with immense presence,” he said. In an unusual twist the auction began without a reserve price and Quig Bruning, head of jewellery at Sotheby’s, said it was a diamond with ‘presence’. ![]() The 303-carat pear-shaped fancy colour brown-yellow diamond is the largest diamond to have been graded as internally flawless by the Gemological Institute of America. The diamond was discovered as an 890-carat rough. ![]()
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