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By all accounts, a truly special father-daughter bonding moment&nbsp;took place at a recent Sotheby’s auction when, after a fierce&nbsp;bidding war, a gargantuan 88.22-carat oval diamond was&nbsp;sold to a Japanese collector for US$13.8 million. Immediately upon&nbsp;completing the sale, the purchaser then renamed the precious stone&nbsp;the Manami Star after his eldest daughter.
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This poignant gesture only further added to the undoubted allure&nbsp;of the gemstone, one of only three oval diamonds of 50 carats or more&nbsp;to have been offered for auction in living memory. Officially deemed a&nbsp;category D, Flawless, Type IIa, Brilliant diamond, it holds the particular&nbsp;distinction of notching up a perfect score across all the 4 C’s that&nbsp;count – cut, colour, clarity and carat weight.
The original rough diamond that morphed into the 88.22-carat&nbsp;gem was mined in Botswana at a site co-owned by the De Beers&nbsp;diamond merchants and the Botswanan government, a site that&nbsp;was already renowned as a source of stones of the highest quality.&nbsp;Weighing in at a staggering 242 carats, the original was then&nbsp;painstakingly professionally polished and cut over several months,&nbsp;before emerging in its ultimately symmetrical, iridescent form.

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Child Star: Daughter Gets Diamond Name-checked as Manami Star