A SHAPE DESIGNED AROUND ITS OWN WEAKNESS
An emerald cut is a rectangle with its corners cut off. That is not decoration. A true right-angled corner on a diamond is the most fragile geometry there is — it concentrates any impact into a single point with nothing behind it — and the step cut solves the problem by simply removing them, replacing four vulnerable points with four short bevelled faces.
Every emerald cut ever made carries that decision in its outline. It is a shape that was designed backwards, from the failure it was trying to avoid.
THE STONE
These are the largest step cuts in the collection: 7.50 × 5.50 mm, 1.25 carats each, 2.50 carats the pair. At that size the table is a wide, open window, and a step cut has no scattered brilliance to hide behind — what is inside the stone is on view.
Matching two of them means matching more than weight. Two emerald cuts of identical carat but different length-to-width ratios read as different stones on sight, so the pair is selected on proportion first.
THE SETTING
Four claws, one at each bevelled corner, over an open squared basket. The corners are where a step cut is gripped, and on this shape they are also the strongest part of the outline — which is the whole point of cutting them that way.
SPECIFICATIONS
Diamonds — 2 emerald cut, 7.50 × 5.50 mm, 1.25 ct each. 2.50 ct total.
Certification — every diamond of 0.20 ct and above ships with its certificate: GIA for natural, IGI for lab-grown.
Setting — Four corner claws over an open basket.
Fastening — screw-back posts.
Metal — 14K or 18K gold, in yellow, white or rose. 1.62 g at 14K, 1.90 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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