Interview with Witold Wolski

For decades, Wolski’s concentrated in the supply of natural coloured gemstones, but when the opportunity arose in 2005 for director Witold Wolski to obtain regular and reliable supplies of Argyle pink diamonds, Witold says he jumped in with both feet … and hasn’t looked back.

The supplier now specialises in Australian Argyle pink and purple-pink diamonds, taking pride in the fact that they are “purely and solely natural and untreated”, and locally sourced. “Pink diamonds are exceptionally rare. One mine – the Australian Argyle mine in the Kimberley region – is the source for about 95 per cent of the world’s production of pink and purple-pink diamonds,” Witold explains.

He adds that Argyle pink diamonds command, on average, 50 times the price of an equivalent sized white diamond and are so rare that for every one million carats of rough diamonds produced at the Rio Tinto-owned mine, a mere carat is graded as pink colour.

When asked what types of jewellery these rare diamonds are best suited to, Witold replies: “Small sized [coloured] diamonds are used as enhancers for a white centre diamond in rings, either surrounding a white diamond or as shoulder stones,” adding that both pink and white stones complement each other and should never be viewed as competing with one another. Interesting fact…