His new owner was the British jeweler Lawrence Graff. As reported on Tuesday, September 26, the Financial Times, this price is much lower than last year's estimate.

The publication also recalls that in June last year a diamond the size of a tennis ball was put up for auction Sotheby '. Then the buyers offered 61 million dollars for the stone, while the head of the Canadian company Lucara Diamond, who discovered him, hoped to get at least 70 million.

However, each carat Lesedi la Rona costs 47.8 thousand dollars, yielding both color and colorless diamonds, sold recently at the auction. Lucara Diamond at one time planned to even cut a diamond to sell it at a higher price.

According to analysts, the diamond was too large for the situation on the market, and to appreciate the stone, "maybe it's worth waiting for a couple of years".

Recall, as reported URA-Inform, the diamond Lesedi la Rona was found in November 2015 at the Karowe field in Botswana, owned by the Canadian Lucara Diamond Corp. The name of the stone is translated as "Our Light". Now it is the largest diamond in the world and second only to the Cullinan ("Cullinan") diamond, which was mined in South Africa in 1905, originally weighing over 3106 carats, but was split into many parts.