A 10.33-carat Burmese ruby sold for an impressive $5.5 million after a six-minute bidding war among two bidders on the phone and one in the New York saleroom at Sotheby’s Magnificent Jewels auction.

Rubies and sapphires of exceptional provenance and signed jewels were among the top lots at Bonhams New York Fine Jewelry sale on Tuesday. This is to be expected at a Bonhams sale, as the auction ...

Sotheby’s and Christie’s sold a combined $158,152,390 worth of jewels this week in New York, in sales that were dominated by spectacular named diamonds (flawless, colored, or huge), along with ...

Sotheby’s New York set two world records for gemstones today, one for a 55.22 carat Mozambique ruby known as the “Estrela de Fura 55.22” and one for a 10.57 carat fancy purplish-pink diamond referred ...

Sotheby’s sold two precious gemstones for US$34.8 million each Thursday in New York, setting records for both. The 55.22-carat Estrela de Fury from Mozambique, the largest ruby to have been sold at a ...

Both the diamonds were discovered in mines inm Africa. A 55.2-carat diamond was recently sold for nearly $35 million at an auction in New York, according to a report in CNN. The ruby has become both ...

Elizabeth Taylor collected some impressive jewelry pieces over the course of her life. The late Oscar-winning actress, who died in 2011, owned a bevy of jewels from emeralds to diamonds, rubies and ...