It’s a rare jewelry auction these days where diamonds are not the most prestigious items for sale. This auction will break the trend as leading the sale is a Burmese no heat “pigeon’s blood” ruby and ...

A rare 10.05-carat ruby will be the lead item at Christie’s Hong Kong Magnificent Jewels sale on November 29. Known as the “Ratnaraj” (“King of Precious Stones” in Sanskrit), the auction house says it ...

A 25.59 carat "pigeon blood" ruby sold for a world record $30.33 million at auction in Geneva Tuesday while a rare pink diamond believed to have once belonged to Napoleon's niece fetched $15.9 million ...

For centuries, the Mogok valley in Myanmar (formerly Burma) was the world's foremost source for rubies. Hundreds of years ago, likely in China, the term 'pigeon's blood' was coined to describe the ...

The large, ‘pigeon-blood’ red ruby “is amongst the rarest of all gemstones” Geneva: A 25.59 carat “pigeon blood” ruby sold for a world record of $30.33 million (Dh111 million) at an auction in Geneva ...