A flawless 100-carat diamond sold for a cool $22.1 million in New York on Tuesday, Sotheby's auction house said.
The dazzling diamond was mined by De Beers in southern Africa, and is about the size of a walnut, Reuters reports. It once weighed more than 200 carats, but its owner spent over a year changing its cut and polish. The rock — purchased over the phone by an anonymous buyer — is so spectacular that it forces people to gush over its beauty. "The color is whiter than white, it is free of any internal perfections, and so transparent that I can only compare it to a pool of water," said Gary Schuler, head of Sotheby's jewelry department in New York.
While $22.1 million is a huge sum of money, it doesn't shatter any records: In 2013, a 118.28 carat white diamond sold in Hong Kong for $30.6 million.
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