Most expensive emerald lot sold at auction
- Who
- Cartier
- What
- 3080000 US dollar(s)
- Where
- United States (New York city,)
- When
- 26 October 1989
The highest price paid for a single lot of emeralds is $3,080,000 (£1,915,066) for an emerald and diamond necklace made by Cartier, London, UK in 1937 (a total of 12 stones weighing 108.74 carats) sold at Sotheby's, New York, USA on 26 October 1989.