The Sunrise Ruby
- Maker
- Cartier
- Year
- sold 2015
- Rank
- 14 of 100
The Sunrise Ruby
The Sunrise Ruby by Cartier (sold 2015) is ranked 14 in the FLOAT 100 for Jewelry. It sold for $30,300,000 on 12 May 2015. Held the record for most expensive ruby and most expensive colored gemstone; also a record for any Cartier piece.
What is it, and why is it in the FLOAT 100?
Held the record for most expensive ruby and most expensive colored gemstone; also a record for any Cartier piece.
25.59 ct cushion untreated Mogok Burmese 'pigeon's blood' ruby, Cartier ring mount
What is the best-sourced number for it?
- Figure
- $30,300,000
- Kind
- Realized at auction
- Date
- 12 May 2015
Sotheby's Geneva; $30.3M. SSEF + Gubelin reports certify Burmese origin, no heat.
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