Chapter 729: A Rough Diamond Weighing One Hundred Carats
After the auction officially opened, hundreds of people with tickets lined up in a long line, and under the inspection of the soldiers of the Dragon War Organization at the gate, they entered the Dragon Tour auction hall one after another.
It is simply unbelievable in China that so many rich people are lining up to enter a certain place, and in today's society where interests are paramount, rich is the boss, and rich people can enjoy privileges.
However, this point does not work in Longyou Auction House, if you do not follow the rules of Longyou Auction House, then, you will forever say goodbye to the qualification to enter Longyou Auction House again, and be kicked out in other places, maybe these rich people do not care, on the contrary, they will be a little proud, but being kicked out in Longyou Auction House, it will simply make them lose face and throw them to India, this is the confidence and courage of Longyou Auction House as a boutique auction house.
Looking at these people who are qualified to enter the venue, many people next to them who can only participate in the auction in the square can't help but show an expression of envy, jealousy and hatred.
This is the difference between Longyou Auction House and other auction houses, other auction houses, you can go to the auction when you are interested, but as long as you have participated in the Longyou auction once, then you will never want to miss the second time.
This situation couldn't help but make Fang You nod, at the current stage, their Longyou Auction House can be regarded as famous, with a large number of loyal customers, which is the basis for their future success.
Dong Qilin sighed a little, it was only less than half a year after the opening of the branch in the small island country, and they set up a branch again in this chaotic Africa, and the auctions held by the two branches attracted many people to come.
And all these miracles happened to Fang You, all of them were created by Fang You, every time he encountered a critical matter, Fang You couldn't help but be able to turn the crisis into safety, and he could also get huge benefits from it, the first time he met Fang You in Pingzhou Gongpan, he was facing a huge crisis of gambling with the Li family.
In the small island country, he encountered many times surrounded by enemies, but they were easily resolved by Fang You, and got some benefits, this is the case with the small island country Longxing Group, this time it was even more dangerous to come to the chaotic Africa to rescue Chen Zongyi, but Fang You not only successfully rescued Chen Zongyi under the premise of ensuring their safety, but also established a powerful mercenary organization, and discovered a huge diamond mine, these things, thinking about it are extremely shocking.
In the past, Dong Qilin thought that he would follow Fang You for decades, or he might really be able to reach the top of the world, but now, he didn't think that this matter would have to wait for decades, with the current development speed of their careers, within ten years, the whole world would know the names of the two of them.
After all the six hundred people with tickets entered the auction venue, Fang You slowly nodded to Dong Qilin and entered the venue with Li Lao.
Dong Qilin instructed some staff of the Longyou Auction House and the soldiers of the Dragon War Organization to maintain the order of the square outside, and then turned on the large LCD TV on the square outside.
After doing this, Dong Qilin walked into the venue, indicating that the auction was about to officially begin.
Before the auction began, Dong Qilin first walked to the auction table and explained to everyone some basic information about their Longyou Investment Company, as well as the general plan for the diamond mine controlled by Longyou Investment Company in the future.
On the last day of each natural month, they will select ten large and good quality diamonds from all the diamonds mined in this month, and take them to Longyou Auction House for auction, but they cannot guarantee that these ten diamonds are the largest diamonds mined this month, but can only guarantee that these ten diamonds are larger and better quality than more than ninety percent of the diamonds mined by them.
After all, if you mine a diamond that weighs as much as the world's top 10 most famous diamonds, then it is not a good way to sell it at auction, carve it into shape, let the diamond shine beautifully, and then serve as a treasure in the town, or take it to auction, it will achieve better results than the rough stone.
Dong Qilin's words couldn't help but make everyone's hearts extremely excited, so that even if they didn't get anything in this auction, then in the next month's auction, they could still auction the diamonds they were satisfied with.
The quality of each auction of Longyou Auction House is clear, and they will only take out ten excellent diamonds for auction, and will never take some junk goods and smash the signboard.
Next, Dong Qilin picked up the hammer on the auction table and smashed it hard, announcing the official start of the first auction of the Gazaka branch of Longyou Auction House.
A middle-aged man in Tang costume with excitement and excitement on his face walked up, waving his hand to everyone as he walked, "Everyone, meet again, I see that many of them are familiar faces from the past, and the things that co-authored our Longyou Auction House have been packed by you." ”
Seeing this auctioneer, many people from Huaxia couldn't help but smile, this auctioneer was the chief auctioneer who presided over the thousand-year-old ginseng auction, and then has been active in the major auction venues of Longyou Auction House.
His humorous auction words, so that everyone in the nervous at the same time, can not help but get a little relaxed, in this auctioneer hosted by the auction, bidding, is simply a kind of enjoyment, in addition to this auctioneer, Longyou Auction House also has several auctioneers are also memorable, their personalities are not the same, but can make people unconsciously, immersed in the auction they hosted.
"In addition to some familiar people, there are many international friends, welcome you to participate in the Longyou auction, I believe you will be able to make this trip worthwhile, you must know the nature of this auction, the diamond rough auction, the auction of ten diamonds, is our Longyou Investment Company controlled by the Gazaka diamond mine since mining, the best ten diamonds, removed from the rocks above, without any carving, completely natural diamond rough, the auction of diamonds, You can design the diamond according to your own heart, rather than designing it according to someone else's wishes and then auction it off to you. ”
The auctioneer smiled and continued: "Okay, the scene is over, the next thing is the real guy, now, let's invite the first lot of this auction with warm applause." ”
In the midst of everyone's warm applause and great anticipation, a cheongsam beauty still walked up with a tray in her hand, which was completely covered by a red cloth, so that no one could see the situation inside.
After the beautiful woman put the tray on the auction table smoothly, the auctioneer walked to the front of the tray with a smile on his face, "Everyone, after our Longyou Investment Company explored this huge diamond mine, we encountered a lot of dangers and difficulties, and now, the successful opening of this auction proves that those young people can never get on the stage, our Longyou Auction House will be able to protect our own things, our confidence is as eternal and firm as a diamond, below, Let's unveil the true face of the first lot. As he spoke, the auctioneer gently lifted the red cloth, and suddenly, on the tray with the black cloth, a crystal clear diamond appeared in front of everyone.
Although its edges and corners are not flat or irregular, they are full of the natural beauty of the rough diamonds, which have not been carved in any way, and still appear brilliant and dazzling under the few projection lights on the auction table.
Due to the large number of participants in this auction, the auction house still chose to install a projection screen at the back of the auction table, which is exactly the same as in the square, showing the condition of all the items on the auction table.
"This rough diamond weighs 100 carats, and its purity has reached the VVS extremely fine flaw, which is an excellent quality diamond, and now it is just a rough stone without any cutting, and it is conceivable that it will become even more beautiful after being divided and polished by a master." The auctioneer puts on white gloves and gently picks up the diamonds on the tray so that everyone can see the diamonds clearly from every vantage point.
The ten diamonds they selected, with quality as the primary selection condition, weight as the secondary selection condition, even if there is a diamond reached one hundred and ten carats, and its purity is not as high as this diamond, it will be eliminated, the value of the diamond in addition to the weight is the determining factor, the more important is the quality, occupies a pivotal position in the value, even if the weight of a diamond is high, if it can only be used in the industrial diamond, then its value will not be very high, quality is the primary factor that determines the value of the diamond.
Diamonds are not only evaluated in terms of purity, but also in terms of color, cut, polish, symmetry, fluorescence reaction, and many other factors, each of which has a corresponding grade.
Now they are auctioning rough diamonds, which have not been done in any way, and their cutting, polishing, and symmetry naturally do not need to be identified, and fluorescence is the standard for judging whether a diamond contains variegation, and diamonds without fluorescence are generally more expensive than diamonds with fluorescence.
The purity of the diamond is divided into LC, VVS, VS, SI, P, five large grades and ten small grades, of which the LC grade is the highest grade of diamond clarity, flawless grade, which means that there are no flaws, and below the LC grade, it is the VVS grade that this diamond has, which is a very slight flaw grade, which is divided into two small grades, VVS1 and VVS2 grades, as for these two small grades, it is the size, number, and location of the defects to determine what grade, and now this diamond is not cut and polished, Naturally, it does not fall within the scope of detailed grading.
VS, slightly imperfection grade, SI small flaw grade, P small flower grade, P grade is a diamond with very poor purity, it is easy to find large and many flaws on the diamond with the naked eye, generally speaking, SI grade is the most cost-effective diamond.
After the auctioneer detailed the basic information of the rough diamond, everyone at the scene couldn't help but fall into shock.
One hundred carats, they didn't expect that the first diamond to be auctioned in Longyou Auction House was as high as one hundred carats, the purity is second only to the flawless VVS grade, not to mention the purity, just a hundred carats of rough diamonds, this is a very rare large diamond, this should not be called a rough diamond at all, but should be called a piece.
Although this diamond is only a rough stone, and after the design process, it will only weigh less than half of it, but even a 100-carat rough stone is quite rare.
Human beings have been mining and using diamonds for more than 1,000 years, but since ancient times, diamonds of more than 20 carats are extremely rare, diamonds larger than 100 carats are regarded as national treasures, and there are nearly 2,000 diamonds of more than 100 carats found today, although these are processed diamond weights, but only by this rare number, you can know how rare it is to be more than 100 carats of rough diamonds.
And now, this is only the first lot of Longyou Auction House, it is conceivable that in the future, there will be bigger and better rough diamonds, how can everyone's hearts not be shocked.
Ten rough diamonds weighing more than 100 carats, this is unimaginable, if this is the case, then Longyou Auction House really took out the ten largest and best diamonds mined this time, in the current time when large-weight diamonds are extremely rare, in the case of Longyou Auction House owning a jewelry company, who can have such courage.
Not only these people in the auction hall were shocked, but also the people watching the live broadcast in the square outside were even more shocked, the 100-carat rough diamond, which is simply unbelievable.
Is the quality of the diamonds produced by this diamond mine controlled by Longyou Investment Company really that strong?
The people of the Deer Bis Company naturally managed to sneak into the auction hall, and when they saw that the first diamond to be auctioned at Longyou Auction House was so amazing, they couldn't help but feel a kind of resentment in their hearts.
Longyou Investment Company was really desperate to auction off all the ten best diamonds mined this time at one time, which is simply an extremely crazy move.
After the negotiation failed, they could not influence all the actions of Longyou Investment Company, nor could they control their sales of diamonds, which made the senior management of Deer Bis Company, the actual controller of the world diamond trade, very angry, but they could not cut off Longyou's sales channels at all.
Having a large auction company as a backing, which to a certain extent, will make the sales channels of Longyou company greatly increase, Longyou company from China, now Huaxia can be said to be a huge market for jewelry and jade sales, every year by Huaxia digestion of diamonds, in the world diamond trade, accounted for a large proportion.
And this market is precisely what they can't fully control as an international company, and the difference in politics and social factors makes it impossible for them to influence all the jewelry companies in Huaxia, and these jewelry companies will definitely establish a sales network with Longyou, and they can't stop it at all, and they can't control it.
Through the political level, it is even more unworkable, Longyou Company as a member of China, at the beginning of the signing of the contract, there are two major departments in China to go out together, and after the news of the diamond mine spread, the Ministry of Commerce once again issued congratulations to support Longyou Company, through these actions, you can see the status of Longyou Company in the high-level government of China.
A few days ago, Mr. Li, the honorary president of the Huaxia Jewelry and Jade Association, came to Gazaka to inspect, which to a certain extent increased the status of Longyou Company.
Neither can the martial arts, nor can the civil, which made the leaders of the Deer Bis Company almost go crazy, hating them for not seizing the opportunity to discover this diamond mine first, and hating Longyou Investment Company for establishing a large mercenary organization in a short period of time to protect the diamond mine.
"I am announcing that the bidding for this 100-carat rough diamond, which is as pure as VVS and has an IGI certificate certified by the International Gemological Institute, has a starting price of $2 million and no less than $10,000 for each price increase." The auctioneer shouted.
Twenty thousand dollars per carat, which is very high for ordinary people, but for people in jewelry companies, what they value in their eyes is only the purity and weight of this diamond, even if the rough diamond is wasted in cutting, at least more than 20 carats will be left, this weight of diamonds, in the whole world, is a rare existence, a high weight, good quality diamond, which plays a vital role in enhancing the reputation of their jewelry company.
"Lao Fengxiang Jewelry bid $2.2 million." A staff member from Huaxia Jewelry Company held up the number plate high, although there may be more and better rough diamonds behind, but he was not confident that he could take a shot in the fierce competition behind, rather than thinking about the diamond behind, it was better to grasp the one in front of him.
The auctioneer stretched out his hand, "This friend of the 30th bid $2.2 million, weighing up to 100 carats of rough diamonds, extremely pure, and the cut finished product will definitely be more than 20 carats, do you want to have a diamond named by yourself, now, this is an opportunity." "The current situation in the diamond industry is that if the diamond is cut and the finished diamond is more than 10 carats, then the owner of the diamond can name the diamond, so that the diamond will be on the list of the world's most famous diamonds.
"Two and a half million dollars." A middle-aged foreigner with very white skin held up a number plate.
A man from the Huaxia Jewelry Company held up the sign again, "$2.7 million, Chow Tai Fook Jewelry." ”
In the auction hall where many people are gathered now, advertising for their jewelry company is the most advantageous opportunity, not only the auction venue, but also the people in the square outside can also influence, and even this auction will be spread on the Internet to a certain extent, which will enhance the impression of their jewelry company in people's hearts.
(To be continued)