The Oppenheimer Blue
- Year
- sold 2016
- Rank
- 3 of 100
The Oppenheimer Blue
The Oppenheimer Blue (sold 2016) is ranked 3 in the FLOAT 100 for Jewelry. It sold for $57,500,000 on 18 May 2016. Set the world auction record for any jewel at the time; the defining named blue diamond.
What is it, and why is it in the FLOAT 100?
Set the world auction record for any jewel at the time; the defining named blue diamond.
14.62 ct rectangular-cut Fancy Vivid Blue; ex-Philip Oppenheimer (De Beers)
What is the best-sourced number for it?
- Figure
- $57,500,000
- Kind
- Realized at auction
- Date
- 18 May 2016
Christie's Geneva; $57.5M, then a world record for any jewel at auction. 25-minute bidding war.
This is a realized sale. Somebody paid it. Source.
How this is made
- The figure
- One reference price, taken from a named public source and shown with its own kind. FLOAT does not average it with anything or adjust it for time.
- Realized or not
- A realized price is a completed sale. A market asking price and a price-guide value are not sales, and are labeled as such wherever they appear.
- Why no grade ladder
- Most FLOAT 100 entries are individual objects. There is one of this, so there is no population and no spread across grades to show.
- Archive
- 2026-08-08