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Shares may be down, but jewels are definitely up

Ellen Wallace — Tue, 15 May 2012 07:32:11 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Two big auction houses realize Monday sales of more than $40 million, more to come GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The Swiss franc is a pale safe haven in these days of troubled economies, compared to the bright, shining market in fine jewels, if Geneva auctions are any indication. Monday was a big day, with Sotheby’s succeeding [...]

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Safra jewels are latest in Christie’s string

Ellen Wallace — Mon, 14 May 2012 12:57:39 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Some CHF20 million in jewels will be auctioned for charity by Christies Monday night 14 May, in a sale called “Jewels for Hope” at the Hotel des Bergues in Geneva. The collection is owned by Lily Safra, one of Geneva’s most famous philanthropists along with her late husband, banker Edmond Safra, who [...]

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Best of the pricey baubles – what a week in Geneva!

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:36:17 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Going, going, gone! For CHF11.28 million, the world’s “largest known pear-shaped fancy vivid yellow diamond”, a rarity for colour at its size and a newcomer on the market, went to an individual who wishes to remain anonymous, says Sotheby’s. The diamond was the hottest item in the auction house’s semi-annual Geneva fine [...]

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A week of Geneva sparkle closes on record tiara, diamond prices

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 18 May 2011 22:20:18 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Geneva residents and visitors have had a week of closeups of true glitter which has drawn to a close Wednesday evening 18 May. Christies Fine Jewels sale closes the city’s spring season of auctions. Several records set for jewelry Tuesday night at Sotheby’s saw what may have been the crowning glory of [...]

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Geneva sets out a menu of watches, jewels and fine wine

Ellen Wallace — Mon, 16 May 2011 12:58:35 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – This is a week where spending your spare millions will be very easy in Geneva, the week when auctions are offering rare watches, an extraordinary emerald tiara and a bottle of Château Lafite-Rothschild, vintage 1887, Pauillac, 1er cru classé that would make grandfather sit up in his grave and ask for [...]

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Christie’s to sell extraordinary Beyeler private collection

Ellen Wallace — Mon, 09 May 2011 04:56:49 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Basel, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Christies Europe will auction off an extraordinary art collection 21 and 22 June, the last of the artworks owned by Ernst Beyeler and his wife Hildy, whose collection has often been called one of the great private art collections of the 20th century. Agency AFP reports that the collection sale will [...]

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Picasso’s prints for auction

Laila Rodriguez — Thu, 20 May 2010 13:19:32 +0000

GenevaLunch.com A collection of 57 prints, including three by Pablo Picasso, will be up for sale in London in September. The Spanish painter’s works, to be auctioned off at Sotheby’s, are expected to bring over £2.5 million ( CHF4 million). Heading the sale are three very important Picasso works expected to fetch over CHF2 million alone: [...]

Some diamond! Some watch! Dazzlers go for CHF5 and 8 million

Ellen Wallace — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:02:16 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Forget the girl’s best friend, diamonds that investors love are dazzling the jewelry world this week. Christie’s big November precious gems and jewelry sale in Geneva Wednesday 18 November ended on a high note, with the sale of a 62.3 carat diamond going for CHF8.01 million at the Four Seasons Hotel [...]

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Mystery buyer of $19m Chinese statues comes forward: won’t pay

Ellen Wallace — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 14:01:20 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Cai Mingchao, advisor to China’s National Treasures Fund, has declared himself the secret bidder for two Chinese statues sold for $19 million each last week by Christie’s in Paris. The statues were part of an auction of artwork owned by the late Yves St Laurent, fasion designer, and his partner Pierre Bergé. The buyer says [...]

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World art market more stable than expected

Ellen Wallace — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 08:50:06 +0000

GenevaLunch.com New York, USA and Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The art markets and in particular fine jewels auctions were being watched closely at the end of 2008 for signs that they were suffering from the global economic crisis, but a new report from Art Market Review suggests that the jewelry market in particular has been more [...]

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