The largest oval fancy vivid blue diamond ever to appear at an auction smashed Asia's jewellery auction record in Hong Kong. It sold for $31 million (INR 206.4crores). The internally flawless blue diamond, weighing at 10.10 carats, was sold to an anonymous phone bidder at after a couple minutes of bidding. The world auction record for any diamond or gemstone was set in 2015 when a 12.03-carat cushion-shaped blue diamond was sold in Geneva for $48.5 million.

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