AS WIDE AS IT IS LONG
A heart cut is specified by its ratio of length to width, and the number decides whether it reads as a heart at all. Cut it longer than it is wide and it drifts toward a teardrop with a notch in it. Cut it wider and the lobes flatten out.
The Vanessa is 6.00 × 6.00 mm — exactly square in outline, the classic proportion. At a glance, from across a room, it is unmistakably the shape it is meant to be, which is the entire job of this cut. A heart nobody recognises has failed at the only thing it was asked to do.
THE SETTING
Three points of contact, all of them different. A V-shaped claw closes over the point at the bottom, wrapping it from both faces. At the top, a split claw sits in the cleft between the two lobes — the second weak spot on the stone, and the hardest to reach without the metal showing on the face. The outer edges of each lobe take a claw of their own.
Behind that sits a substantial gallery: 4.25 grams of gold in 14K, heavier than most studs in this collection, because a 0.75 carat heart is a broad stone and the structure under it has to be wide enough to carry it without flexing.
SPECIFICATIONS
Diamonds — 2 heart cut, 6.00 × 6.00 mm, 0.75 ct each. 1.50 ct total.
Certification — every diamond of 0.20 ct and above ships with its certificate: GIA for natural, IGI for lab-grown.
Setting — V-prong at the point, split claw at the cleft, claws at the lobes.
Fastening — screw-back posts.
Metal — 14K or 18K gold, in yellow, white or rose. 4.25 g at 14K, 5.00 g at 18K.
Diamond origin — natural or lab-grown, to preference.
Made to order. Two to three weeks from order to dispatch.
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