New record set for yellow diamond at Sotheby's Geneva

The largest known pear-shaped fancy vivid yellow diamond in the world (110.03 carats) sold for $12.36 million at Sotheby's Geneva, setting a new world record for a yellow diamond. The rough for the Sun‐Drop Diamond was discovered in South Africa in 2010, and was cut and polished by Cora International, headquarter in New York.