22 September 2015
Blue Moon at Sotheby's
Geneva, November 11th 2015: Sotheby’s auctioned the 12.03-carat diamond called the Blue Moon. Its extremely intense blue earned it the name coming from the English expression “once in a blue moon”. The French equivalent of a rare event occurring “every thirty-sixth of the month”.
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