Jewellery

Based in Hong Kong, Vickie Sek is Deputy Chairman, Asia Pacific and Chairman, Jewellery, Asia Pacific, overseeing all aspects of Christie’s jewellery sales in the region. Vickie manages relationships with Asia’s top jewellery collectors and is responsible for their growing activity across Christie’s salerooms internationally.

Vickie joined Christie’s as a jewellery specialist in 1994. During her near 30-year tenure, sales of jewellery and jadeite in Hong Kong have grown exponentially and Christie’s have led the auction market for the category in Asia. She has been pivotal in the consignments of some of Asia’s most esteemed private collections, including that of legendary Hong Kong actress, Rosamund Kwan, which sold for US$11 million in 2022, as well as the collection of Theresa Po Lau, and the family collection of K’ung Hsiang-Hsi.

Under Vickie’s leadership, numerous exceptional and record-breaking results across outstanding diamonds and gemstones have been achieved in Christie’s Hong Kong saleroom. In 2023, ‘The Golden Flame’, an 8.92 carat diamond ring, achieved the world-record price per carat for a fancy vivid yellow-orange diamond at US$457,804 per carat. In 2021, the department achieved the world-record price at auction for the largest purple-pink flawless diamond, ‘The Sakura’, which realised US$29.3 million (US$1.85 million per carat). Also of note was the sale of an 8.01 carat fancy vivid blue diamond pendant necklace by Moussaieff sold for US$20.4 million (US$2.55 million per carat) in May 2018. In 2016, The Aurora Green, a fancy vivid green diamond ring of 5.03 carats achieved the world record per carat for a green diamond at US$3.34 million per carat and is the world-record holder for any green diamond ever auctioned.

A key contributor to Christie’s global results, Vickie’s expertise and understanding of jewellery is second to none. Vickie speaks English, Cantonese and Mandarin, and is fluent in Japanese.

石麗華現為佳士得亞太區副主席暨亞太區珠寶部主席，常駐香港。她主要負責佳士得亞太區珠寶拍賣的各個業務範疇，同時維繫與亞洲頂級珠寶藏家的關係，以及協助客戶積極參與佳士得在全球舉行的拍賣。

石麗華於1994年加入佳士得出任珠寶專家，在她效力佳士得近30年期間，香港珠寶及翡翠首飾拍賣的成交總額急速增長，令佳士得在亞洲珠寶拍賣市場佔據領軍地位。她在亞洲最顯赫的私人珍藏委託拍賣中擔當重大角色，包括香港傳奇巨星關之琳珠寶珍藏拍賣，於2022年錄得1,100萬美元成交總額，除此之外還有寶詠琴珍藏和孔祥熙家族珍藏等。

在石麗華的領導下，佳士得香港在鑽石及寶石拍賣方面屢創破紀錄驕人佳績。2023 年，重達8.92克拉的鑽石戒指「The Golden Flame」以每克拉457,804美元的高價拍出，刷新豔彩黃橘色鑽石每克拉單位價世界紀錄。2021年，拍賣史上最碩大的無瑕紫粉紅鑽石「The Sakura」以2,930萬美元（每克拉185萬美元）的價格成交，刷新世界紀錄。2018 年，一條由Moussaieff設計、重達8.01克拉的豔彩藍鑽吊墜項鏈亦以2,040萬美元（每克拉255萬美元）的高價成交。2016年，重達5.03克拉的豔彩綠色鑽石戒指「The Aurora Green」，也以每克拉 334萬美元的高價打破綠鑽的每克拉單位價世界紀錄及拍出價格最高綠鑽的世界紀錄。

石麗華對珠寶的專業知識和透徹了解無出其右，因而對佳士得的全球拍賣佳績貢獻良多。她精通英語、粵語和普通話，並能操流利日語。

Karen Au-Yeung is Senior Specialist in Christie’s Asia Jewellery department. Ms. Au-Yeung, who lived in Bangkok for ten years, joined Christie's in 2000. Now based in Hong Kong, Ms. Au-Yeung plays an integral role in Christie's Hong Kong jewellery sales and in the development of Christie’s clients throughout Asia. In addition to sourcing and selling important jewels and jadeite for Christie’s sales in Hong Kong, Ms. Au-Yeung, whose passion and talent for jewellery extend into the realm of design, also actively designs jewellery from important gemstones that are offered for auction. Through her strong network of private collectors and trade clients in Thailand and throughout the region, Ms. Au-Yeung has also been an important driving force in Christie’s jewellery private sales in Asia. Ms. Au-Yeung speaks Cantonese, Mandarin and English and is fluent in Thai.

Ronny Hsu is Vice President, Specialist, Head of Sale of Jewellery at Christie's Hong Kong and is responsible for developing all Jewellery businesses in the region of Asia, as well as supporting global sales of Jewellery.

Prior to joining the department in 2019, Mr Hsu also worked at two other leading international auction houses. Since then, Mr Hsu has played an instrumental role in a series of high-profile important collections including the unparalleled jewellery collection of the late Mrs Heidi Horten (2023) with the sale series realising a total of US$202M / CHF 180M, achieving the highest total ever for a private jewellery collection.

Mr Hsu earned a Graduate Gemology (G.G.) certificate from the Gemological Institute of America. He is bilingual in Mandarin and English.

Belinda Yuen is an Associate Specialist in the Jewellery Department at Christie’s Hong Kong. She first joined Christie’s while in college as an intern in the department. After graduating, Ms. Yuen returned to Christie’s as department coordinator in 2018.

As an Associate Specialist, Ms. Yuen is involved in various aspects of the business including cataloguing, jewellery valuations, obtaining consignments as well as client development and closely collaborating with Christie’s worldwide jewellery teams. Ms. Yuen graduated from Northeastern University with a bachelor’s degree in Journalism. She is also fluent in Cantonese, Mandarin and English.

Nicola is a Junior Specialist in the Hong Kong Jewelry department. Ms. Chan graduated from Central Saint Martin’s of Arts and Design London B.A. Jewellery Design. After graduating, she continued her education at Christie’s Education London, where she earned her Master’s Degree in European Art History mainly focusing on European historical Jewellery. At the same time, she also earned her Diamond Graduate (D.G) and Accredited Jewellery profession (A.J.P) in the Gemmological Institute of America.

Ms. Chan started her Christie’s journey in London as a sales coordinator. With strong interest in Jewellery, she progressed and became part of the Geneva team as a Jewellery cataloguer. She finally landed as a junior specialist in the Hong Kong team. Before joining the Christie’s family, Ms. Chan worked as a global marketeer in the luxury industry and entered the auction world through a local auction house in Chelsea London for several years.

Yvonne Yu joined Christie’s Watch department as a Sale Coordinator in September 2018, and she was promoted to Senior Sale Coordinator in 2021. Prior to joining Christie’s, Yvonne had experience in pricing analyst in both airline and electronic components industry. Yvonne holds a Bachelor’s degree in Arts and Secondary Education from the University of New South Wales in Australia. Yvonne is fluent in Cantonese, Mandarin and English.