Pear or emerald cut diamond engagement ring?

[guccimamma]

for that size, i think an emerald would be drop dead gorgeous

you don't see many of them, they are pure class. if i could have an "upgrade" ring someday, it would be a large stunning emerald cut diamond

 

[kuk416]

between pear and emerald i definitely vote emerald. my fave is cushion but that wasn't one of the choices.
i could never warm up to the pear, at least not for a ring, it might look ok as a pendant or in a necklace or earrings... but on rings i really don't like it, for some weird reason it makes me think of the 80s.

i think i'm now leaning towards emeralds. i totally know what you mean about the pear looking a bit 80s-ish. i feel the same way about marquise shapes!

 

[saligator]

Why don't you try both shapes on your hand?
One might elongate your fingers, one might truncate them...One might make your hand graceful and classic, one might make your hand stubby. You won't know until you try both shapes on and see how your hand looks! Don't forget your digital camera

 

[lulumylovely]

emerald in the new Tiffany Lucida cut, the beautiful classic shape with sparkle!

 

[hawaiianorchid]

The bow tie effect is caused by the mounting, you can see this in pear shapes, ovals, and marquis! It is un avoidable.

I own a pear shape diamond and do not have the bow tie effect. My jeweler told me this only occurs within colored stones

 

[Sopeary]

I like the emerald shape, g'luck with your choice

 

[chaz]

The bow tie effect is caused by the mounting, you can see this in pear shapes, ovals, and marquis! It is un avoidable.

Unfortunately the problem lies with the keel or bottom half of the stone being slightly too shallow and no amount or re-mounting will solve this, its caused by light dropping through the back of the stone as the facets are'nt quite the right angle to bounce the light back up.

Marquise,pears,hearts and ovals are modified brilliants,with a round stone its much simpler to produce that nice even 'open umbrella' effect as you look down into it and so get a very even return of light,on the others some of the facets are longer to create the shape.If these are a little off the right angle then you get the light dropping thing,hence the bow-tie where light is 'escaping'.

However if the lady who owns it has never noticed it before,chances are its not bad at all,most have them and if its really bad you can see it straight off.When I was in the trade I saw lots with varying degrees of bow-ties,but happily its quite rare to find a truly awful one!!!

It can happen with any stone colored or not,its the angles of the facets not the 'species' of the stone. I hope this is useful to you? And its true if you want fire and sparkle you are best with a pear,or if your more understated type of gal the emerald cut would suit you down to the ground!! xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

 

[chaz]

Ooh,just wanted to add..that well cut,any of the modified brill won't display this,and with 14/15 ish years in the trade I only ever saw one that had a truly monstrous bow-tie,but the woman had bought the stone quite cheaply at 7cts!!!!!! And brought it in to send away to cutters to have it re-cut and tidied up,but the bow-tie was actually so bad she stood to lose about two cts! She went ahead,it looked divine,tripled its value and and no bow-tie.But the cutter did have a lot to play with to bring it to those ideal proportions.

 

[chaz]

I own a pear shape diamond and do not have the bow tie effect. My jeweler told me this only occurs within colored stones

THAT is on hell of a rock!!! Its gorgeous,you lucky gal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[chaz]

One last post and then I'm off out with Sophie to the park for an hour or two. I came across these pics in a reference book I used when I was studying for my DGA,I thought it might be a bit interesting to actually see how the facets are placed and that there are the same amount of them on each,how different cutting can make them all so different to each other and are all called 'brilliants'!!