Bonas Polished Tender at CARAT+ 2018
Featuring more than 1,700 carats across 163 lots,
including two diamonds over 10 carats
CARAT+, The World’s Premier Diamond Event, is pleased to share further details of an exclusive Bonas Polished Diamond Tender, due to take place from May 6-8, 2018, at Antwerp Expo. Brought to CARAT+ by Bonas, one of the world's leading diamond brokering and tender houses, the polished diamond tender will feature 163 lots with a total weight of more than 1,700 carats. Of these lots, 133 are GIA-certified stones, while the remaining 30 are parcels of white diamonds.
Highlights include 14 fancy-colour diamonds and 119 white diamonds, with weights ranging from 1.00 carat to 5.00 carats. Two diamonds in the tender are over 10 carats. Parcels in the tender feature diamonds from +11.5 to 90 points and up.
Viewings will take place at Stand 1A-2, next to the VIP area, from 10:00 until 18:30 on Sunday and Monday, and until 16:30 on Tuesday. The sale will close on Wednesday, May 9 at 15:00 Antwerp (CET) time and will take the form of an online highest bid tender bonasbids website.
Time slots to view the Bonas Polished Diamond Tender at CARAT+ are limited on a first-come, first-serve basis. To reserve your slot. CARAT+ event director, Filip Van Laere, comments: “We are proud to welcome Bonas to CARAT+ 2018 and we hope our exhibitors and visitors alike will take the time to explore the diamonds available in the tender.
As The World’s Premier Diamond Event, we look forward to further collaborations with Bonas and other leading diamond companies over the coming years as we continue to build our ‘Diamond Destination’.”
CARAT+ has ambitions to become the reference in diamonds; offering an annual meeting place for buying, networking and debating the future of the diamond industry.
Launched in 2017, the event attracted more than 3,000 visitors and 130 exhibitors in its first year alone.
Partners and sponsors that have joined CARAT+ for the 2018 edition include Main Partner Antwerp World Diamond Centre (AWDC), Diamond Partners ABN AMRO Belgium; security expert Brinks; Rue Saint-Lambert 135 insurance broker Driesassur; the Federation of Belgian Diamond Bourses (FBDB); the world’s foremost authority in gemology, GIA (Gemological Institute of America); industry media specialist Rapaport, and Event Partners motor company, Bentley; Brussels Airlines; champagne house Laurent- Perrier; Porsche Center Antwerp, and mobile camera security specialists, TowerEye.
CARAT+ takes place on 6, 7 & 8 May 2018 at Antwerp Expo in Antwerp, Belgium.
