The world’s largest flawless diamond is ready to be auctioned by Sotheby’s in December 2022!
The Golden Canary is a rare, scintillating, intense yellow-brown coloured weighing a colossal 303.10 carats. The fancy deep brownish-yellow diamond is one of the largest polished diamonds in the world and the largest flawless or internally flawless diamond ever graded by the Gemological Institute of America (GIA).
The Golden Canary is originally from the Democratic Republic of Congo and was discovered in the early 1980s, by a young girl playing in her relative’s backyard. Discarded as rubble at first, it turned out to be an 890-carat rough diamond joining the list of the world’s largest diamonds.
Over the course of the next five years, the rough diamond was cut into 15 finished stones, from which the largest of the resulting diamonds, a fancy deep brownish-yellow weighing 407.49 carats, became formally known as the ‘Incomparable’.
Touring most of the world since its discovery and cut, the diamond will now be auctioned at Sotheby’s Magnificent Jewels auction in New York on 7 December, with an estimate in the region of $15 million, and offered without reserve, with bidding starting at just $1.
